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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.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Counters High Unemployment

Fact / Tip Sheet

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) currently reaches 45 million people, which is an increase of 69 percent since the current economic recession began. From the Urban Institute, this fact sheet discusses how…

Synthesis of research and resources to support at-risk youth

Report

This report provides a synthesis of research and existing ACF resources for serving at-risk youth. It describes what we know from research about at-risk youth. It then describes how at-risk youth are currently being served by ACF programs and by…

Improving the Delivery of Key Work Supports: Policy and Practice Opportunities at a Critical Moment

Report

This paper is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and shows why collaboration and coordination across programs is critical in terms of policy, procedure, and data utilization. Designed for practitioners, authors discuss the…

Minnesota child care choices: Families' employment patterns and child care-related work disruptions

Report

One of the aims of the Minnesota Child Care Choices study is to explore the factors that influence child care stability and parents’ employment outcomes. This Research Brief looks at the work experiences of parents in the study and the…

“It May Be the Missing Piece” – Exploring the Mentoring of Youth in Systems of Care

Report

This report from Portland State University summarizes the discussion that took place at the 2011 Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring, a gathering of over 50 mentoring researchers, practitioners, service providers, and policymakers that focused on…

Working toward Wellness: Telephone care management for Medicaid recipients with depression, thirty-six months after random assignment

Report

Although many public assistance recipients suffer from depression, few receive…

Putting Data to Work: Interim Recommendations from the Benchmarking Project

Report

Recently, data collection and reporting strategies have increased as workforce development program funders focus on program evaluation. Public/Private Ventures released this report, which is a compilation of data from 200 service providers around…

The Role of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer During a Recession

Report

The U.S. Department of Labor released a report that includes the findings of a multi-year study of the impact of the Unemployment Insurance program in stabilizing the economy during a recession. Completed by IMPAQ International LLC and the Urban…

Real World Calculators

Stakeholder Resource

A number of states have created free Reality Check Calculators to help youth, students, and adults understand how salary, wages, careers, education, training, and budgets all interrelate. Reality Check Calculators can be used to estimate the cost…

Sharing Lessons from the First Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the United States

Research-To-Practice Brief

The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan authored this policy brief, which offers lessons learned from New York City’s conditional cash transfer program, Opportunity NYC: Family Rewards. The program was targeted to six of New…

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