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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.

Restoring Work by Poor Fathers

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From Lawrence Mead and Ron Haskins, through the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, this article analyzes why low-skilled men typically work in lower level positions and provide little support for their children. Authors…

A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program with Employment Services

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As part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation published this report on the Enhanced Early Head Start (…

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

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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

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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…

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