{"product_id":"hope-and-change-von-craig-follins","title":"Hope and Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1990''s President Bill Clinton moved  Welfare Reform to the forefront of the national  agenda. Community colleges were challenged as never  before to develop programs and practices to respond  to the mantra of \"work first.\"   Individuals who may have developed a multi- generational relationship with the welfare system  were now mandated to find employment. Moreover, they  were given time limits to get off of welfare.  Craig Follins carefully and courageously walks the  reader through the lives of several welfare  recipients as they move from welfare to productive  educational and employment situations. Craig''s  narrative of hope, challenge, chance and change is a  window with which to examine public policy and the  role community colleges play in impacting lives.  Craig listens and documents the unimaginable and  severe hardships in this important case study of  women that have rewritten their narrative and woven  new stories of optimism and success.  This is a page  turning discussion of how education and training are  truly transforming lives in the most dire of  circumstances. This is an important book in the  welfare reform global dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838309880\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn Analysis of the Expectations and Actual Experiences of Students in Welfare to Work Programs: A Community College Case Study\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838309880","offer_id":39497041248349,"sku":"9783838309880","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5ac23dca-071d-41bb-a0c4-2a9e25b85487.jpg?v=1758955701","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/hope-and-change-von-craig-follins","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}