The Welfare peer Technical Assistance network offers services including:

• Peer-to-peer round-tables
• Site visits
• Workshops
• Moderated teleconferences

Do you need any of these services at your welfare event?
Fill out a TA Request Form online, and you will be contacted within 3 business days, or download the pdf version.

Why should you seek Welfare Technical Assistance?
Seeking Technical Assistance will expose you to innovative strategies and programs for effectively serving TANF clients. Prior TA events have helped participants identify effective practices for providing services, implement interagency service coordination, build linkages within and across State agencies, and address other welfare-related topics.

Written reports of all TA interventions are posted on the TA Summaries page. You may wish to access these summaries to see lessons learned from past events.

What happens after you submit a Technical Assistance Request?
TA requests are jointly reviewed by the Welfare Peer TA Network and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) based on the following criteria:

• The extent to which the technical assistance requested is likely to move TANF participants from welfare to work, self-sufficiency, and family stability.
• The degree to which the area of requested technical assistance is related to ACF priorities:
• Provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes, or in the homes of relatives;
• End of the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage;
• Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual, numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies, and;
• Encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.
• The level of urgency of the requested technical assistance.
• The degree to which the requested technical assistance methods foster information exchange among States, counties, and communities.
• The extent to which the technical assistance requested may have value for other States or programs.
• The cost-effectiveness of the requested technical assistance.

Once your TA Request is received, you will be contacted by the Welfare Peer TA Network within three business days to discuss next steps.