The Peer TA Network would like to know if any State had court cases or administrative hearings on civil rights issues in relation to sanctioning TANF participants?

A representative from the Community Partnership would like to know if anyone can recommend any training sessions or classes that would benefit the coordinator of a program designed to eliminate barriers to employment, so as to enable clients to leave sanctioned status?

A representative from the Tennessee Department of Human Services would like to have information on the sanction policy that other states use for participants who do not participate according to the regulations. Several clients are sanctioned for non-compliance, comply for the required period, then become non-compliant again, and this cycle continues. Do other states have limits on the number of times that a client can be sanctioned, then comply, within a time period?

A representative from the District of Columbia of Economic Security/ Employment Administration would like to know if any other States provide information on sanction policies?

A representative from the Washington Department of Social and Human Services would like to know if other States are undertaking review of non-compliant cases before these cases are put in sanction status? What are the outcomes of any evaluations on this matter?

Can states give examples of any best practices or innovative strategies to re-engage clients in sanction status?