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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.

Charitable Choice Implementation Guide

Book Chapter / Book

The Center for Public Justice provides information and resources on Charitable Choice, including a "how-to" guide for federal, state, and local officials.

HHS Awards Welfare High Performance Bonuses

Fact / Tip Sheet

HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced that 28 states have been awarded high performance bonuses created to reward superior results in welfare reform. The $200 million in annual bonuses, established in the 1996 welfare reform law, was given to…

Establishing Individual Development Account Programs: Programming, Policies, and Resources

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), coordinated this workshop involving select…

The Family Transition Program: Final Report on Florida’s Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program

Report

A pilot welfare reform project in Florida, launched more than two years before the landmark 1996 federal welfare law, has provided some of the first hard evidence about the imposition of time limits on receipt of cash welfare assistance. This is…

Promoting employment retention among TANF recipients: Lessons from the GAPS initiative

Report

Interest among policymakers and program operators in services designed to promote…

Time Limits, Exemption and Disclosure: TANF Caseworkers and Clients with Disabilities

Research-To-Practice Brief

This issue brief by the Institute for Community Inclusion examines how welfare reform affected Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) caseworkers in Massachusetts and describes the impact of these reforms on the lives of people with…

Question from ACF Region V

Question / Response(s)

How are States defining "hardship" for the purposes of exemption clients from or extending TANF benefits beyond the State time limit?

Mid-Atlantic Peer to Peer Technical Assistance Workshop: Job Retention, Marketing to Employers, Strategies to Engage Clients

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, supported two 1-day workshops. The Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human services jointly…

Welfare Reform and Housing--Asset Building and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)

Report

The Welfare Peer TA Network hosted a broadcast call titled, “Welfare Reform and Housing—Asset Building and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)” on August 2, 2000. The purpose of the call was to review the asset building and IDA program concepts,…

Olmstead Decision and Welfare-to-Work Regional Meeting

Report

The Olmstead Decision and Welfare-to-Work ACF Region IV Meeting was held on August 23-24, 2000, at The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 80 participants attended, including State Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (…

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