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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.

Emerging Practice Series: Colorado: Web-Based Technology for Coaching TANF Participants

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The Larimer County Works Program has implemented a goal achievement coaching model (Goal4 It!) hand-in-glove with a technology-based coaching platform, TuaPath. The combined approach, referred to as My Journey to Success, has redirected TANF…

Emerging Practice Series: Utah: Use of Community Volunteers to Support TANF Participants

Stakeholder Resource

TANF participants in Utah are moving from poverty to earning incomes at or above 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL) through a social capital-building strategy. Implemented by the Utah Department of Workforce Services through partnerships…

Increasing employment stability and earnings for low-wage workers: Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project

Report

Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement: Final Impacts for twelve models

Report

This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and…

Benefit-cost findings for three programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project

Report

This report presents an analysis of the financial benefits and costs of three diverse programs designed to…

Finding the next job: Reemployment strategies in retention and advancement programs for current and former welfare recipients

Report

This 12-page practitioner brief focuses on one aspect of the ERA programs — that is, their strategies to reemploy the many program participants who quickly lost jobs. Limited rigorous evidence is available on reemployment strategies. Moreover…

Question from Georgia Department of Human Services

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A representative from the Georgia Department of Human Services would like to know if any states use contracted Job Coaches to provide comprehensive job retention, and career advancement services for TANF clients?

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Results from the Texas ERA site

Report

Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is…

The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project: Early results from four sites

Report

Millions of welfare recipients have entered the labor force in the past decade, but…

Service delivery and institutional linkages: Early implementation experiences of Employment Retention and Advancement programs

Report

Considerable interest exists among state and local welfare departments, workforce investment agencies, community colleges, and other nonprofit community-based service providers to find ways to promote job retention and advancement among employed…

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