Online Work Readiness Assessment
As of September 29, 2020, the Online Work Readiness Assessment (OWRA) tool is no longer available for download. Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, OWRA was a web-based tool that offered social service agency caseworkers and staff an innovative approach to creating a plan for participants that summarizes their strengths and barriers and recommends placement into work activities and work supports. The information provided on this webpage describes how OWRA offered services for participants through five modules, including a comprehensive assessment of participants’ strengths, barriers, and work readiness.
The Office of Family Assistance hosted a free webinar on understanding how to assess and build executive functioning skills in TANF participants. Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus…
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This Office of Family Assistance-sponsored case study shares the experiences of the Department of Social Services of Anne Arundel County, Maryland in its use of OFA’s Online Work Readiness Assessment (OWRA) to improve the outcomes of its TANF…