Every day, Americans work hard to obtain the prized American Dream. Obtaining a well-paying job, permanent housing, healthcare, making sure the bills are paid, and providing consistent, healthy meals for those we love are key steps along the road to making The American Dream a reality. Yet, millions of Americans continue to struggle when it comes to affording the most basic and essential needs. We understand how difficult it can be to support yourself and your family while on a low-income. The truth is, finding immediate help isn’t easy. Contacting and visiting aid offices for general information can be time-consuming. So is sorting through webpages with conflicting and confusing information. That’s why our team of researchers have spent countless hours gathering all the necessary resources you need to find help right away! Simply put, we’ve done all the research for you! The Ultimate Help Guide For Low-Income Americans is an easy-to-follow guide specifically designed to point you and your family in the direction of FREE and LOWCOST help and assistance from a variety of reputable sources! In this book, you will find five helpful sections: Emergency Food & Housing Help, Low-Income Food Help For Families, Children and Seniors, Housing Assistance Programs & Resources, Low-Income Medical Assistance & Healthcare Options, and Unemployment Support & Job Search Strategies. Plus, we’ve added a final Bonuses & Extras section with great tips & tricks to help you start saving (and keep saving) money now! In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover invaluable information such as program eligibility requirements, application processes, links to key website you need to instantly locate top government and private aid programs, help-based organizations, and private charities. Our mission is to help you find immediate relief and to show how you can benefit from existing programs to break the low-income cycle and improve your life today!

Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. And though a lack of resources leaves such families vulnerable, income-support programs are often closed to those with a bit of savings or even a car. Considering welfare-to-work reforms, the increasingly advanced skill demands of the American workforce, and our stretched Social Security system, such an approach is inadequate to lift families out of poverty. Asset-based policies--allowing or even helping low-income families build wealth--are an increasingly popular strategy to facilitate financial stability.

This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions. It brings together recent thinking on the historical and contemporary constructions of the family in such a way as to provide a helpful framework for practitioners working in a variety of settings in the field. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and theoretical frameworks, and it reviews and illustrates a wide range of approaches and practice skills for working with families with different problems in different contexts.

Discover the teaching practices that make the biggest difference in student performance! The new edition of this practical, research-based book gives leaders and teachers an even closer look at instructional practices from top award-winning urban schools. With refreshed examples from high-performing teachers and detailed analyses of these practices, the authors demystify the achievement of these schools while offering a practical guide to help educators apply these practices in their contexts. Teaching Practices from America's Best Urban Schools is a valuable tool for any educator in both urban and non urban schools that serve diverse student populations, including English language learners and children from low-income families. What’s New: Additional "What It Is/What It Isn’t" boxes help educators distinguish the subtle differences in the implementation of practices that lead to impressive learning results "Practice Guides" and "Practical Next Steps" for each of the 8 Success Factors encourage self-assessment and collaboration Expansion of topics address current developments in education and additional examples from award-winning elementary, middle, and high schools provide new insights.

Increased national attention to child care has been spurred by rising costs, renewed understanding of the importance of children¿s early experiences to future development & problems experienced by states in serving all low-income families who are eligible for child care assistance. Child care for children in low-income families is of interest given fed. & state reforms in educ. & welfare that may boost the numbers of very young low-income children in need of child care, as well as put added pressures on preschools to pay more attention to preparing children for school. Three workshops were convened on child-care for low-income families in 1995. The third workshop, which is the subject of this vol. considered promising directions for research on child care,