Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...client's educational level is found to be too low to contract him out to a regular school, he is sent to the second set of Win specialist--the Adult Basic Education (ABE) team. Again stressing an individualized program, the team assists the satisfied that he has achieved his objectives, which will support his employment goals...
...acting as "a creation of the community it serves, WIN represents the most basic form of community self-help, that of improving employment opportunities", and thereby hopes to overcome the standardization and impersonality of other welfare programs...
...increase in teams does not denote success or an increase in participants in the program. Just the opposite has occurred; WIN has had less then minimal participation--due to both the recipients themselves and, ironically, to the Department of Welfare, which recruits clients...
LIKE ALL OTHER welfare programs, WIN is largely a voluntary program (only AFDC fathers--who are few--are required by law to participate). An additional stipend of $30 a month beyond the regular welfare check has been allotted to each client with the hope that it would offer incentive to stay with the program...
Statistically, Massachusetts WIN has 3000 "slots" or training openings per year--1400 are in Boston--although a slot may be used more than once a year. For example, if a client is involved in a five month long school, the slot is re-opened to a second client at the end of the first's training...