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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

The CalWORKs Project

Stakeholder Resource

The CalWORKs Project seeks to inform policy makers, using a variety of approaches, in order to positively influence CalWORKs policy and practice, particularly in the areas of identification, referral, and delivery of mental health (MH), alcohol…

Family Economic Security: 50 State Profiles

Report

From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this resource gives fact sheets on all 50 States including policy decisions State governments have made that affect low-wage workers and their families. The profiles focus on work supports and…

Family Homelessness in Our Nation and Community: A Problem with a Solution

Report

This resource examines the nature and causes of family homelessness and outlines approaches that communities are pursuing to provide homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing. Family homelessness is a widespread problem and is driven largely…

Kinship Care: Best Practice Guidance

Fact / Tip Sheet

This Web site offers information from the Child Welfare League of America on increasing effective kinship programs in States and explores the role of kinship care in family preservation.

Report on a meta-analysis of Welfare-to-Work programs

Report

This report uses meta-analysis, a set of statistically based techniques for combining  quantitative findings from different studies, to synthesize estimates of program effects from  random assignment evaluations of welfare-to-work…

Piloting a community approach to healthy marriage initiatives: Early implementation of the Healthy Families Nampa demonstration

Report

The Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (CHMI) is a key component of the…

The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project: Early results from four sites

Report

Millions of welfare recipients have entered the labor force in the past decade, but…

Question from PeerTA

Question / Response(s)

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network is interested to learn about promising practices regarding what services States are providing to support individuals with developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, or mental health issues in finding and retaining employment. Any answers you could provide would be helpful.

Question from ACF Region VII

Question / Response(s)

The state of Iowa wants to find out how other States manage large caseloads while dealing with specific and different eligibility requirements/guidelines for Federal programs. How are regulatory differences in resources and income eligibility for TANF, Food Stamps and Medicaid are merged? Please share how you are successful in identifying barriers to providing seamless services.

Question from ACF Region VII

Question / Response(s)

The State of Iowa would like to know of any States that are currently using any particular assessment tool for TANF participants? Do States have "best practices" or "best assessment tools" that they are willing to share?

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