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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.

Question from Education Commission of the States

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Education Commission of the States would like to learn more about examples of cooperative efforts between schools/business/industry to assist youth in becoming job ready? Examples may be job shadowing, mentor programs, internships, summer employment, etc.

One Step Forward: A Jobs Program Provides Hope for the Unemployed

Video

With unemployment across the country around 10 percent, states have been implementing innovative programs to help individuals find jobs. This special segment aired on PBS on the Mississippi STEPS program, which is a subsidized employment program…

The Child Trends Databank: Youth Employment

Report

From the Child Trends Databank, this page includes the latest information on youth employment. Specifically, employment declined in 2009 for youth (ages 16-24), which is a trend that began in 2000. In October 2009, 45 percent of youth were…

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…

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…

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

Report

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-…

Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration: CareerOneStop

Stakeholder Resource

Job seekers, students, parents, businesses, career professionals, and career counselors are encouraged to visit CareerOneStop -- the main "portal" site found at www.careeronestop.org…

Testing case management in a rural context: An impact analysis of the Illinois Future Steps Program

Report

This final report focuses on Future Steps. In this report, the authors (1) chronicle the design and operation of Future Steps, assessing program participation, service delivery, and costs; (2) examine 30-month impacts on employment, earnings,…

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

Report

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

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