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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.

Policy Announcement / Memoranda

This guidance letter, developed by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, provides relevant information about Program Year 2016 for States and outlying areas.

Toolkit

This toolkit, created through Colorado’s Work Support Strategies (WSS) grant, is designed to help county and community-based organizations define, measure, and use well-being metrics to improve services and achieve outcomes. It includes a “how to”…

Presentation

This presentation highlights observations and findings from a yearlong study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) grant programs, with a focus on strategies for connecting justice-involved youth and adult…

Video

This year’s Brain Awareness Night, hosted in Memphis by the Urban Child Institute and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Neuroscience Institute, featured speakers Dr. Pat Levitt and Dr. Eraina Schauss. They presented on the topic of…

Stakeholder Resource

This website from the Child Welfare Information Gateway provides resources and materials as part of child abuse prevention and awareness month. A center piece of the site is the 2016 Prevention Resource Guide: Building Community, Building…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This memo from the Brookings Institution cites reports detailing the low number of economically disadvantaged students completing four-year degrees and suggests that a better approach for many young people would be to develop coherent pathways,…

Report

Subsidized employment can boost incomes and improve labor market outcomes and well-being for disadvantaged workers. This report from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality presents findings from a review of subsidized employment programs…

Report

Low-income families receiving cash assistance through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) also need assistance with workforce development and child care. Workforce development and child care subsidy systems exist to support low-income…

Research-To-Practice Brief

Nearly half of young children in the United States are growing up in low-income families. There are 10 million low-income families with children age 8 and under in which parents have limited skills, low wages, and inflexible work schedules. The two…

Report

The federal child support program collects billions of dollars per year in child support payments and serves more than 16 million children and families. However, about 35 percent of child support obligations go unpaid each month and most child…

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