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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.

Family-provider partnerships: Examining alignment of early care and education professional and performance standards, state competencies, and quality rating and improvement systems indicators in the context of research

Report

Interest in the quality of provider-family relationships in early care and education (ECE) settings has sharpened the focus on defining and measuring elements of these relationships across settings for program improvement purposes.  In this…

Assessing and serving TANF recipients with disabilities

Report

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Connections between TANF and SSI: Lessons from the TANF/SSI Disability Transition Project

Report

This brief provides an overall summary of the lessons learned from the TANF-SSI Disability Transition Project. It brings together material spread across other documents in a concise format, and it also offers new insights from state-level data…

Examining the interaction between welfare and disability: Lessons from an in-depth data analysis

Report

This brief focuses on the analysis of merged national-level SSI data and TANF data from the 26 states that report to the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) on their full TANF caseload. It found, counter to popular narratives, that the overlap…

Understanding Supplemental Security Income (SSI): A guide for TANF staff members

Report

Many TANF staff are unfamiliar with the SSI Program but want to learn more. This brief describes the basic SSI disability determination process and compares and contrasts it with several procedures different TANF agencies use to identify…

A framework for thinking about job search assistance programs

Report

How can federal programs support low-income and low-skilled individuals find and keep employment? Searching for a job is a universal experience for nearly all Americans, but for some low-income and low-skilled individuals, job search may be…

Design options for an evaluation of TANF job search assistance

Report

Services to help people find work are a common element of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other programs, but evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches is limited. This report presents options for designing a…

Welfare rules databook: State TANF policies as of July 2012

Dataset

The Welfare Rules Databook provides tables containing key Temporary Assistance for…

Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning

Video

This video and companion brief from Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child provide an overview of what executive function is and how it affects one’s life-long capacity to learn. It explains how these skills develop…

Poverty as a Predictor of 4-Year-Olds' Executive Function: New Perspectives on Models of Differential Susceptibility

Journal Article

This study, looking at a longitudinal sample of 1,259 low-income children followed from birth, found that that chronic exposure to poverty and the strains of financial hardship were each uniquely predictive of young children's performance on…

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