Facilitating Self-Esteem and Social Supports in a Family Life-Skills Program

Abstract

Apreliminary study of a statewide life-skills job-readiness program in which 116 female Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients participated found that significant gains made in curricular areas were positively correlated with self-esteem and social supports. The responses to a qualitative survey and ethnographic data revealed these women's strengths and the ways in which gender may have facilitated positive outcomes.

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