Effectively Serving TANF Clients with Substance Abuse Problems: Making a Difference on the Frontline

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One of the most prominent roadblocks that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) clients face to a successful transition to employment is substance abuse. In order to address these issues that TANF families affected by substance abuse face the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network held a conference entitled Effectively Serving Clients with Substance Abuse Problems: Making a Difference on the Frontline in Newark, New Jersey on February 19th and 20th. The purpose of this 2-day seminar was two fold: to provide participants with an opportunity to understand how TANF agencies and treatment providers can work together to better serve clients and to showcase New Jersey’s referral process for families struggling with substance abuse in order to meet work requirements and remain self-sufficient. The report provides a summary of this workshop.

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2002-02-28T19:00:00
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2002-03-01
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Collaboration Across Systems: Issues of Recovery and Ex-Offenders

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The Welfare Peer TA Network sponsored this statewide Roundtable event that took place in Baltimore, MD from September 14-16, 2005. Attended by over 80 individuals, this Roundtable focused on developing partnerships to address the challenges associated with universal engagement for TANF clients. Partners were given the opportunity to learn strategies for developing meaningful partnerships with substance abuse treatment providers and the Department of Corrections to engage substance users and ex-offenders into work experience to better the lives of children and families.

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2005-08-31T20:00:00
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2005-09-01
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Agenda 184.51 KB
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Final Report 2.27 MB

Strengthening Families First: Technical Assistance Meeting in Allentown, PA

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The Alabama Department of Human Resources is exploring ways to promote Healthy Marriage Initiatives in the State of Alabama. Endeavoring to fulfill this mission, Alabama sought and received assistance from the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network to send a representative from the Family Assistance Partnership in Alabama. With the support of Ramona Warren, Team Leader for the Region IV Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program and the financial support of the Welfare Peer TA Network, Alabama was able to send Program Specialist, Sharon A. Finklea, to Allentown, Pennsylvania to meet with several marriage stakeholders in the Pennsylvania area.
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2003-09-30T20:00:00
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2003-10-01
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Post-Employment Services: Making Job Retention and Post-Employment Services Work

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The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network under contract from the Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) coordinated a workshop on the topic of Post-employment Services: Making Job Retention and Post-Employment Services Work. The contractors on the Network are AFYA, Inc. and Caliber Associates. This one day technical assistance event was a multi-state workgroup designed to review the lessons learned from the Post-employment Services Demonstration Project (PESD) and to explore strategies for job retention and post-employment support.
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1998-04-30T20:00:00
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1998-05-01
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Mid-Atlantic Peer to Peer Technical Assistance Workshop: Job Retention, Marketing to Employers, Strategies to Engage Clients

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The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, supported two 1-day workshops. The Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human services jointly presented a Region III workshop examining job retention strategies, marketing to potential employers of welfare-to-work clients, and marketing services to those clients.
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2000-08-31T20:00:00
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2000-09-01
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Post-Employment Training Workshop

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The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) assisted the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) in the planning and coordination of this workshop involving select representatives from sixteen Service Delivery Areas (SDAs), various workforce investment boards, several community colleges, employers, and key individuals from various private welfare service organizations from around the state of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development also participated along with representatives from the DOL Region I office.
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2000-09-30T20:00:00
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2000-10-01
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Third New England Promising Practices Workshop in Collaboration With ACF’s Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network: Project Match and The Pathways System

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The ACF Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, coordinated this one day workshop presentation by Ms. Toby Herr, the Founder of Project Match. Ms. Herr provided an in-depth description of the Pathways System developed through Project Match. This workshop was the result of a collaborative effort between the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network and the New England Promising Practices Workgroup. The technical assistance event was a multi-state workshop with a focus on providing participants with a thorough understanding of the Pathways System philosophy and approach to serving a large and diverse welfare population with serious or multiple barriers to employment and self-sufficiency.
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1998-06-30T20:00:00
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1998-07-01
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The Challenge of Welfare Reform: The Employer Perspective

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The Peer TA Network hosted an event titled, “The Challenge of Welfare Reform: The Employer Perspective”, which featured the following speakers: Alicia Fernandez-Mott, Office of Welfare-to-Work, Department of Labor; Rodney Carroll, UPS; Thomas Harnett, BMC Enterprises; and James Schaffer, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services.

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1998-05-31T20:00:00
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1998-06-01
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