Since 2010, veteran homelessness has fallen 47 percent. This report from the Urban Institute looks back at the work of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), which has played a critical role in helping reduce homelessness.

The Innovation and Opportunity Network from WorkforceGPS released new focus areas identified by the Employment and Training Administration. The 11 focus areas include: All About WIOA; Financial Grants Management; One-stops and American Job Centers; Performance Accountability; Services to Adult Job Seekers and Workers; Services to Businesses and Employers; Services to Youth; State and Local Governance; System Alignment; Target Populations and National Programs; and Wagner-Peyser Employment Services and Unemployment Insurance.

This brief from the Office of Child Support Enforcement encourages eligible taxpayers to file for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Last year across the United States, about 27 million taxpayers received more than $65 billion in EITC; despite this success, about 25% of eligible filers do not claim it. The brief includes helpful information about qualification levels, useful resources, and how to claim the EITC.

Commonwealth, an Annie E. Casey Foundation grantee, recently launched an incentive program to help Americans build savings through a program called Prize Savings. Prize Savings allows Walmart MoneyCard customers to enter monthly sweepstakes that awards cash prizes when the customers elect to save. This proven strategy that motivates positive financial behaviors can help families build savings and assets.

States spend only half of their combined federal and state dollars under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) on basic assistance for families with children, child care for low-income families, and work-related activities or supports. These fact sheets from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examine in detail how states are using their TANF funds.

The Administration for Children and Families, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Administration for Community Living, the Offices of the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have worked together to develop this Guide to Trauma-Informed Human Services. The guide provides an introduction to the topic of trauma, discusses why understanding and addressing trauma is important for human services programs, and a offers a “road map” to find relevant resources.

This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families’ Family Room Blog highlights the work of the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in 2016. Some notable examples of successful research and evaluation projects include: a video on using behavioral science insights to increase child support collections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; a report that examines similarities and differences among executive functioning skills for children aged three through six; and a report on the early impacts of two approaches to subsidized employment for TANF participants in Los Angeles.

The Office of Family Assistance has published a spreadsheet that shows the fiscal year 2016 TANF Contingency Fund awards to qualified states.

The Office of Family Assistance published the TANF caseload and application data for the fourth quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2016, which completes the data for FY 2016. The data include assistance through state TANF and separate state program maintenance-of-effort (SSP-MOE) programs. In FY 2016, an average of 1.52 million families received TANF and SSP-MOE cash assistance each month, representing approximately 3.9 million recipients. In comparison to FY 2015, 7.0 percent fewer families received cash assistance.