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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.

Pursuing Economic Security for Young Adults: Five-Year Impacts of Pre-Employment Services in the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies

Report

Drawing from administrative records and survey data collected for the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) during the 1990s, this report extends MDRC's research on whether mandatory employment-focused and education-focused…

Rural Family Economic Success

Report

This brief from the Annie E. Casey Foundation reviewed a model to help low-income families in rural communities achieve long-term economic stability. The model combines strategies for increasing income, building assets, and accumulating wealth…

Money Matters: How Financial Aid Affects Nontraditional Students in Community Colleges

Report

Examining federal, state, and institutional programs, the paper presents a framework for understanding challenges to securing comprehensive financial assistance for low-income working students. The paper identifies promising approaches for…

Changing Courses: Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College

Report

This paper looks at curricular and program redesign strategies being used in community colleges today to speed nontraditional students' advancement from lower levels of skill into credential programs and to shorten the time commitment that…

Families on TANF in Illinois: Employment Assets and liabilities

Report

This report sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) uses survey and administrative data to examine the personal characteristics and situations, potential challenges for employment, compensating…

Working with Disadvantage Youth: Thirty-Month Findings from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training Replication Sites

Report

Efforts to replicate the experience of the Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California -- a uniquely successful program that helped at-risk youth develop skills needed to compete in today's labor market -- showed mixed results.…

Incidence and prevalence of homeless and runaway youth

Report

Homeless, runaway, and throwaway youth (HRTY) constitute a high-risk population that…

Understanding Fathering: The Early Head Start Study of Fathers of Newborns

Report

Through Mathematica Policy Research, this paper reviews data on who these fathers are and their involvement with their families. Mathematica conducted 108 observations of fathers with children under 14 months. The findings speak to programs that…

Employment Barriers Facing Ex-Offenders: Employment Dimensions of Reentry: Understanding the Nexus between Prisoner Reentry and Work

Conference Paper

From the Urban Institute's Reentry Roundtable, this article reviews employment and earnings rates among ex-offenders which are, for the most part, very low. Authors explore the barriers that ex-offenders face in reentering society and returning…

Employment Dimensions of Reentry: Understanding the Nexus between Prisoner Reentry and Work -- Can Inmates Become an Integral Part of the U.S. Workforce?

Conference Paper

Two-thirds of prisoners are rearrested within three years of release. Industry-specific work programs in prison have shown to greatly reduce recidivism -- however, only 7 percent of inmates are currently working in such programs. From the Urban…

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