Worker Advancement | Research and Publications

From Welfare Check to Paycheck

10.01.2002 | Transitional jobs programs are wage-based work and skill development programs designed to promote employment among those who have little or no work experience. In this model, participants work at short-term, publicly subsidized jobs that combine real work, skill development, and support services to help them overcome substantial barriers to employment. | Read (report) | Read (appendices)

Community Jobs Program Moves People from Welfare to a Career Track

04.01.2002 | Community Jobs Program outcomes assessment | Read

Community Jobs: A Ladder Out of Welfare

09.26.2000 | CJ is the first model program in the nation to provide comprehensive, paid work experience plus training opportunities for hard-to-employ TANF recipients - based on the premise that individuals want to work. | Read

Community Jobs Outcomes Assessment and Evaluation

09.01.2000 | Community Jobs (CJ), a component of WorkFirst, Washington State’s welfare reform, sets a
precedent as the first and still the largest wage based public job creation program for “hard-to-employ”
TANF recipients. | Read

Advocating for Welfare to Work: Community Jobs

09.01.2000 | Community Jobs promotes work in the community, skill building and livable wage employment. The program is the only one of its kind in the nation which provides welfare recipients with paychecks for their work in the public and nonprofit sectors, training, intensive case management, and work towards permanent economic self-sufficiency. | Read

Community Jobs Implementation Status Report

05.01.2000 | Community Jobs (CJ) is one component of Washington State’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) “WorkFirst” system that combines waged work, a continuum of supports and mentoring for welfare recipients who are entering work. | Read

Making Welfare Reform Work for TANF Recipients

10.01.1998 | Our goal is to insure that Community Jobs works for TANF participants as a vehicle to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We continually push to make Community Jobs a work program, not a workfare program. | Read