Rural Communities

Staff from the Montana (Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes/Roosevelt County) and Hoopa Valley Tribal TANF (California) met with personnel from various social service providers on the Turtle Mountain Reservation to learn more about innovative…

This Rural Communities Initiative Webinar included information on strategies for economic development through job creation in rural areas to improve service delivery to rural TANF programs. The challenge of improving economic development was…

This Webinar explored how rural TANF programs can expand technology access in rural areas. Presenters included Axiom Technologies, Business Access, and Connect Kentucky.

This Webinar on Nonprofit Technologies included presentations from Timothy Tyndall, RAIN Distance Learning, Telemedicine and Rural Community Development Network and Phillip Brown, National Policy Director, Connected Nation, Inc.

As part of the Rural Communities Initiative and the Vermont site’s Individualized Technical Assistance Plan, Vermont decided to alter their TANF case management approach. Through a series of meetings, the team sketched out a new case management…

The Office of Family Assistance began the Rural Communities Initiative in 2008, and many rural areas expressed an interest in learning more about how to utilize technology in their TANF programs and in their communities. This Webinar included…