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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.

Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services: Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Report

From MDRC, this report discusses the implementation of an enhanced version of the Early Head Start (EHS) program. Authors provide an overview of challenges to implementation as well as short-term outcomes of the program on children and parents.…

The Building Strong Families Project: Initial implementation of a couples-focused employment program

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This study evaluates the initial implementation of the Couples Employment (CE) project in Baltimore, Maryland, a voluntary intervention to simultaneously address employment, financial literacy, and relationship issues, to…

Promising Practices in Self-Sufficiency & Employment Programs for Fathers: Evidence-Based and Evidence-Informed Research Findings

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This report compiles and analyzes information from seven father self-sufficiency/employment programs that were rigorously evaluated. Common implementation themes emerged, including: partnering with job placement and other agencies to serve low-…

Effects of employment on marriage: Evidence from a randomized study of the Job Corps program

Report

This report explores the effects of employment-related outcomes (namely, average…

Teaching self-sufficiency: An impact and benefit-cost analysis of a home visitation and life skills education programs

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The Rural Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Strategies Demonstration Evaluation rigorously…

Policy Matters: Twenty State Policies to Enhance States’ Prosperity and Create Bright Futures for Children, Families, and Communities

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This report from the Center for the Study of Social Policy reviews State policies that support families, children and low-wage workers while also contributing to states’ economic stability.

An economic framework and selected proposals for demonstrations aimed at strengthening marriage, employment, and family functioning outcomes

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The increasing recognition of the importance of marriage for the social and economic well-being of children has led to demonstrations aimed at strengthening and stimulating healthy marriages. The next step is to ensure that factors closely linked…

Mentoring as a Family Strengthening Strategy

Research-To-Practice Brief

Mentoring programs can often provide positive youth development similar to the support a youth receives from caregivers. This issue brief, from the National Human Service Assembly, offers information on how greater family engagement in youth…

Broke But Not Deadbeat: Reconnecting Low-Income Fathers and Children

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A National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) publication entitled "Broke But Not Deadbeat: Reconnecting Low-Income Fathers and Children" addresses the circumstances faced by low-income fathers who are not able to meet their required child…

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