Resource Library | ARCHIVE

Find Archived Content

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.

Report

The Welfare Peer TA completed an analysis of Delaware's strategies for identifying substance abuse among A Better Chance Families. This provides the Executive Summary as well as a set of appendices that include promising practices from other…

Research-To-Practice Brief

Contrary to expectations, recent leavers are no more disadvantaged than those at the start of welfare reform, according to this Urban Institute report. Researchers caution, however, that States have considerable work ahead if they are to help…

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network is a federally funded initiative through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance.  The objective of the Welfare Peer TA Network is to…

Stakeholder Resource

Authored by Mary K. Shilton. This resource was developed by the Mother-Child Community Corrections Project and was supported by a cooperative agreement awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S.…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This issue brief by the Welfare Information Network discusses the challenges to self-sufficiency and employment facing low-income mothers with criminal records. The brief provides strategies, best practices, and resource contacts to effectively…

Research-To-Practice Brief

This issue brief by the Institute for Community Inclusion examines how welfare reform affected Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) caseworkers in Massachusetts and describes the impact of these reforms on the lives of people with…

Regulation

Senators Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation in Fall 1999 aimed at protecting the youngest victims of domestic violence. The Children Who Witness Domestic Violence Protection Act of 1999 (S. 1321) includes many of…

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, supported a 2-day conference held by Office of Family Assistance, Region VI, examining the issues of domestic violence and substance abuse as…

Report

This report summarizes the key issues and lessons learned at the joint ACF and SAMHSA national conference, Welfare Reform: Employment Strategies for Overcoming Substance Abuse/Mental Health Barriers, held in Reno, Nevada, on July 26-27,…

Report

The Olmstead Decision and Welfare-to-Work ACF Region IV Meeting was held on August 23-24, 2000, at The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 80 participants attended, including State Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (…

Summary archive

Topics/Subtopics Archive

Geographic Area Archive