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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.

Second Chance Homes: A Resource for Teen Mothers

Research-To-Practice Brief

This issue brief authored by Child Trends examines Second Chance Homes, a newer program model, similar to maternity group homes. They serve young, unmarried mothers who can no longer live at home with their own parent. These young women are at…

Policies that Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

Report

Fathers' involvement in their children's lives has been shown to produce both economic and social benefits. This paper by MDRC examines two different approaches to strengthen fathers' involvement and their family relationships, fatherhood…

Saving for Success: Financial Education and Savings Goal Achievement in Individual Development Accounts

Journal Article

Using microdata from the American Dream Demonstration, this study examines factors associated with savings and savings goal achievement (indicated by a matched withdrawal) among participants of individual development account (IDA) programs.…

Kinship Care and Child-Only Cases

Conference Paper

This presentation from Kathy Deserly of the National Resource Center for Tribes was given at the Region X Tribal TANF Conference in September of 2011. The presentation focuses on the different types of kinship care, how it is used in the child…

TANF recipients with barriers to employment

Report

Many parents receiving assistance from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) face serious barriers to employment. Sometimes called the “hard to employ,” these parents typically require enhanced assistance to prepare for, find, and keep…

Working toward Wellness: Telephone care management for Medicaid recipients with depression, thirty-six months after random assignment

Report

Although many public assistance recipients suffer from depression, few receive…

Providing earnings supplements to encourage and sustain employment: Lessons from research and practice

Report

This brief presents findings, and lessons for policy and practice, from MDRC-conducted studies of five programs that provided earnings supplements and that have been rigorously evaluated using a random assignment research design: the Canadian…

An introduction to the Tribal Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) and Evaluation

Report

This practice brief is the first in a series of practice briefs being developed by the Tribal HPOG evaluation team, comprised of NORC at the University of Chicago, Red Star Innovations, and the National Indian Health Board. The briefs will be…

Disconnected families and TANF

Report

The share of low-income single mothers disconnected from work and TANF ranges from 20 to 25 percent. Most disconnected low-income single mothers experience barriers to work and most of their families live in poverty. This brief reviews what we…

Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) and family-sensitive caregiving in early care and education arrangements: Promising directions and challenges

Report

More than half of states now have Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) in…

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