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Resources as the Key to Rural Employment

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This chapter focuses on the role of resources to promote and sustain employment for rural low-income families, whether individual resources, or public and/or private resources available in the community. The ecological model (Fig. 8.1) offers a visual representation of resources and of the selection and use of nonpersonal resources to achieve goals such as employment, satisfaction of needs, and quality of life-supporting services. Education and transportation are highlighted as facilitating resources for employment and well-being. The Rural Families Speak study narratives are used to illustrate some of the resource use by rural low-income families.

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  1. Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Carolyn L. Bird

  2. Department of Family Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

    Elizabeth M. Dolan

  3. Department of Consumer Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Sharon B. Seiling

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Bird, C.L., Dolan, E.M., Seiling, S.B. (2011). Resources as the Key to Rural Employment. In: Bauer, J., Dolan, E. (eds) Rural Families and Work. International Series on Consumer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0382-1_8

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