TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (TA) SUMMARIES
This section provides resources on the role of family formation and stabilization in moving families from welfare to self-sufficiency.
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General Topic
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Incarceration & Reentry
Virginia Reentry and Innovative Prevention Task Force Report, July 2009
The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network (WPTA) offered technical assistance to the AdvoCare Conference with the primary purpose of creating a nationwide task force of organizations and agencies that can provide proven evidence-based practice plans and ideas for innovative crime prevention, prisoner reentry, and family unification using collaboration models. The Task Force's long term goal would be to ultimately provide technical assistance to others. The Welfare Peer TA Network brought together specialists from prisoner reentry, social services agencies, and judicial communities to form a task force that could solidify a process that could be used to shape a cohesive prisoner reentry program and reduce the risk for those currently receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and those who may potentially become TANF participants. The Task Force work group and sessions were held in Winchester, Virginia on July 23rd-24th, 2009.
Final Report
[PDF - 370 KB]
Office of the President, Jobs of the Future
[PDF - 219 KB]
Drug Free Alliance Presentation
[PDF - 635 KB]
Reentry Challenges Report
[PDF - 34 KB]
Life After Lock Up Report
[PDF - 2,078 KB]
Fatherhood Reentry National Resources
[PDF - 202 KB]
Preparing Prisoners for Employment Report
[PDF - 1,299 KB]
Reentry Efforts in Cities Report
[PDF - 619 KB]
Reentry Policy Advice
[PDF - 245 KB]
Gemeinschaft Home Transitional Therapeutic Community Program
[PDF - 3,134 KB]
Marriage
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Out-of-Wedlock & Teen Pregnancy
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Fatherhood
White House Community Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Report, August 2009
The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships partnered with community stakeholders, Federal agencies, and others to coordinate a series of White House Community Roundtables and Town Hall Meetings on Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families as a means to focus on discovering and emphasizing strategies “that work” in encouraging responsible fatherhood, while supporting families and communities. On August 5, 2009, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Administration for Children and Families hosted the inaugural White House Community Roundtable and Town Hall Meeting on Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families in Chicago, Illinois. The first in a series of locally-focused meetings designed to highlight the importance of fatherhood in communities across the nation, this event provided a forum for responsible fatherhood program representatives, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers at the Federal, State, and local levels to discuss the successes and challenges faced by fathers and responsible fatherhood programs.
Final Report [PDF - 1,561 KB]