Motivational Interviewing: Creating a Culture of Work and Academic Achievement

The Welfare Peer TA Network held a one day training on July 16, 2010 for the Workforce Solutions Texoma Board in Denison, Texas. The training, Motivational Interviewing: Creating a Culture of Work and Academic Achievement, was designed to help attendees identify strategies that motivate TANF participants to work and/or further their academic achievement. The training included a focus on motivating Texas TANF participants coded as exempt to participate in employment-related activities.