What can be done so that people dont prolong their welfare or government help just because it could actually benefit them more than having a job?

Instead of some people against welfare saying that the united states should create harsher rules on the government aids, why not come up with some solutions or ideas that can lead welfare participants into bettering their life's and using welfare only as a building block to their success.
Some of the ideas that I was thinking about were...

• Welfare and other government aids practically give out money and nutrition help such as food stamps. Which is amazing because people get the help that they need, but many people debate that people can become lazy and dependent on these, so what if one of the reforms that welfare and other government aid can do is provide welfare participants with FREE education on how to better their life's. By this I don't mean give them free graduate education because that is another issue that is going on in America but what I mean is free classes or courses on how to apply for jobs, maybe some English classes for those that English isn't their first language. Also education on health and pregnancy because it seems that children are the reason that many people apply for government help in the first place.
• Another idea that goes hand in hand with the controversy that some people abuse welfare and take advantage of the help is developing a way in which the person that is granted food stamps has to be the person that cashes them. Like seen in many movies (and I am sure this happens in real life) people that receive food stamps trade them for cash value or alcohol, drugs, ect. So if there would be a way in which an ID is required to use food stamps or a way to track where they ended up maybe welfare recipients wont be driven to exchange them for other things.
• what about if instead of giving out food stamps each city or community had a store or location where welfare recipients could pick up just enough of what they needed to survive that week. I once did some community service at this place where each Sunday they opened up the doors to more than 100 families and individuals that were in need of food. and instead of providing them with money or food stamps/ coupons, they gave these people a basket and let them take as much as they could fit in it of food. The food was all donated and was the basic essentials that a family could need like bread, eggs, milk, cheese, ham and so on...

While I was reading the comments on a TED talk discussion I came across Anne Thull's ideas on what can be done to reduce the costs of welfare and I cant agree more with her!!
below is her exact words:
Sep 2 2012: Welfare should be available for everyone who needs it for a limited time.
It should be a helping hand-up, not a free ride.
If it becomes a free ride you are diminishing the positive spirit the person may still have to improve their situation.
People who need additional help should move to another tier of Welfare, with proof of long term disability papers etc.

Here's an Idea: Using local State Universities to help reduce Welfare Costs

- The top state universities receive X dollars from the government each year, to meet their local Welfare Recipients and distribute the welfare Checks. The $ received by the government are based on how many Welfare recipients are in the community for the University to handle.

-The Universities offer certain classes to Welfare recipients who want to learn a new trade, get a new job and improve their situation. Many of these may be home-based businesses in the long run. Some of this training may need to be at the welfare recipients home, by a teacher in training at the university -for school credits.

- The Government gives the University a bonus $ for every Welfare person the University trains and becomes employed each year.
- The Universities use the bonus $ to pay for materials needed for training the Welfare recipients.
- Eventually the Universities create their own Community Adult School retraining

The University is creating more jobs by training the people - The university can use teachers in training to receive their credits.
The Welfare Recipients improve their lives.
The Universities are controlling Welfare Fraud at their end
The Community wins as it reduces non-productive and poorer economic areas.
The Universities turn Welfare Recipients into tax payers.
the people win - reduce government employee costs, government waste,