Making Welfare-to-Work Work in One-Stop Career Centers:
Getting Targeted Results in a Universal System
Your One-Stop Career Center is to serve all people in your community, including those who just happen to be on welfare. How do you successfully operate a universal center and self-help, self-initiated services while simultaneously making sure welfare recipients don't get left out or stigmatized in service delivery? When you attend this workshop you will leave with ideas on: designing non-stigmatizing workshops which help solve the unique problems of those on welfare; how to effectively bring together welfare job seekers with the business community; how to operate your resource area so you get results in welfare-to-work; and many more practical tips and tactics.

Keeping Welfare Recipients Focused on Work
Sometimes, too much time is spent on training staff in new rules---without teaching them how to effectively communicate them. If you want more recipients to go to work, this session will help. Learn: how welfare is changing across the country; the key challenges of welfare reform and what it means for your job; what you must believe in order to turn welfare recipients into job seekers; why just presenting the rules will not mean transition; the best answers to the most common questions asked by welfare recipients; practical, easy-to-implement ideas to send "get a job" messages which tap into recipient motivation.

From Compliance to Transition:
Moving Welfare Recipients to Independence
Time limits on welfare means every day on welfare is one less day for future emergencies. Even if the recipient is complying with the work requirements---but still receiving benefits, the clock continues to tick. This session will discuss what to do after the recipient has a non-independence job or is in community service. Learn: how to effectively communicate time limits to motivate the need for independence---now!; steps you can take to move recipients from part-time to full-time employment; and proven-to-work methods for turning workfare into paid employment. Leave with program ideas for this important, emerging program challenge.

Getting Jobs for Welfare Clients
As work becomes a welfare eligibility requirement, large numbers of recipients will need to find jobs immediately---and find jobs to support them and their families before they reach their time limit. This workshop will discuss the options available to recipients and programs to assist in this effort. Learn: the most important things you can do to provide an enabled, supported job search for recipients; when (and how) to approach employers to urge them to hire welfare clients; what you must do when recipients comply with the work requirements, but are not yet independent; and many, many more job development strategies.

Do you need more than training to make welfare-to-work work? Facilitation of leadership planning retreats, reallocation of staff to meet new work requirements, consultation on repositioning the welfare business in the new economy...