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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.

Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment

Report

This paper is from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and provides a review of programs serving at-risk youth transitioning into adulthood. Youth that are disconnected from school and employment are more likely to take part in crime, use…

Creating Work Opportunities: Assisting TANF Recipients Living with Disabilities to Obtain and Maintain Employment

Research-To-Practice Brief

This resource is from Mathematica Policy Research and provides an overview of innovative work opportunity programs for TANF recipients with disabilities. Specifically, authors provide profiles of three strategies that can be utilized to support…

Question from Brigid Collins Family Support Center

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Brigid Collins Family Support Center would like to hear from States that offer developmental and age-appropriate support to foster children and adolescents so they have skills and supports in place when they age-out of the foster system?

Question from Montgomery Couty Department of Health and Human Services

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Montgomery Couty Department of Health and Human Services would like to know if anyone utilize a staff support model which focuses on debriefing with staff to deal with daily stress and burnout and in extreme cases, a secondary trauma model?

Implementation of the Building Strong Families program

Report

The Building Strong Families (BSF) project is a large-scale program demonstration and rigorous evaluation to learn whether well-designed interventions can help interested romantically involved unmarried parents build stronger relationships and…

Evaluation of the life skills training program Los Angeles County, California: Final report

Report

Approximately 510,000 children lived in out-of-home care on September 30, 2006, the…

Motivational Interviewing Strategies and Techniques: Rationales and Examples

Report

This resource, published by Nova Southeastern University, outlines strategies and provides examples of techniques used in Motivational Interviewing. For each technique, the authors include both a rationale for the technique and samples of the…

Proceedings from a working meeting on recent school readiness research: Guiding the synthesis of early childhood research

Conference Paper

This document presents the proceedings from “A Working Meeting on Recent School Readiness Research: Guiding the Synthesis of Early Childhood Research,” which was held on October 21-22, 2008 in Washington, D.C. The meeting was sponsored by the…

Strengthening Economic Self-Sufficiency for Kentucky Families

Report

LexLinc Kentucky requested the assistance of the Welfare Peer TA Network to plan and conduct a 2-day statewide Roundtable on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)/Child Tax Credit (CTC) and strategies to help eligible current and former TANF…

Policy Matters: Twenty State Policies to Enhance States’ Prosperity and Create Bright Futures for Children, Families, and Communities

Report

This report from the Center for the Study of Social Policy reviews State policies that support families, children and low-wage workers while also contributing to states’ economic stability.

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