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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.

Stakeholder Resource

This Annie E. Casey Foundation blogpost profiles A Place 4 Me, a community-based organization in Cleveland that improves outcomes for housing of youth transitioning out of foster care. The blogpost discusses the organization’s goals for ending youth…

Stakeholder Resource

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness developed this categorized list of resources, which includes criteria and benchmarks for communities to use in implementing strategies to address homelessness. The resources are organized…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This Chapin Hall research-to-practice brief examines the connection between youth homelessness and educational attainment. The brief identifies research that demonstrates how young people encountering family instability are more likely to have…

Report

This MDRC report, prepared for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is an evaluation of the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)TM initiative. LEAP is designed to improve education and employment outcomes among youth from 15 years old…

Stakeholder Resource

This Administration for Children and Families blogpost, authored by the Director of the Office of Head Start and Early Childhood Development, identifies the reach of Head Start programs to serve children within families that experience homelessness…

Stakeholder Resource

This blogpost, authored by the Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), describes the 10 listening sessions that ACF held nationally among key stakeholders to address family homelessness. These stakeholders, who…

Report

Prepared for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this Abt Associates literature review provides information on literature about housing models that can best serve persons with…

Report

This Chapin Hall Research-to-Practice brief examines the diverse range of causes for youth homelessness, based on interviews with 215 youth, ages 13 to 25, in urban and rural communities. Four common experiences among the interviewed youth included…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This United States Interagency Council on Homelessness issue brief reviews the relationship between housing costs and housing stability; more affordable housing options reduce the likelihood of families becoming homeless, and help homeless families…

Webinar / Webcast

The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Family and Youth Services…