Does Coordinated Care Management Improve Employment for Substance-Using Welfare Recipients?
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Intensive Case Management Improves Substance Abuse and Employment Outcomes of Female Welfare Recipients: Preliminary Findings
Welfare caseloads have declined dramatically since 1996, assisted in part by a strong economy. However, many families have not made the transition to stable employment. As welfare reform reauthorization approaches, there has been an increasing discussion about welfare recipients who experience a variety of personal barriers to employment, or what have been characterized as hard-to-employ (HtE) ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1937-1888,1938-4114
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2009.70.955