As part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to strengthen and enhance the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is expanding opportunities for everyday…

The Excluded Workers Fund was set up in 2021 to provide financial relief to New York State residents who had lost work during the COVID-19 crisis but who had not received unemployment insurance—primarily immigrants who are undocumented—with…

Case management is an important and required element of SNAP E&T programs. This session from the SNAP E&T 2022 National Forum shared findings from the Food and Nutrition Service’s Survey of SNAP E&T Case Management study, which…

Filing for tax credits does not have to be intimidating, and two successful state programs are proving it. New America Chicago and the New Practice Lab will host a webinar on January 20, 2023 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. CT where participants will…

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act passed in 1996 replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANF imposed work requirements on…

People facing economic instability often need more than one program or service. This might be particularly true for participants in certain programs—for example, families receiving TANF benefits might be more likely to face food insecurity given…

Current employment data shows that there are over 10 million job openings but only 5.7 million unemployed workers; if every…

The human services sector is critical to helping individuals, families, and communities thrive and to optimizing health, well-being, and equity. Human services can include, for example, cash and in-kind benefits; aging and senior services; child…

Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) programming is designed to teach participants how to communicate effectively, manage conflict, identify signs of an unhealthy relationship, and other skills important for developing and…

A program model offers a visual roadmap that illustrates the intended destination of a program and identifies how practitioners can get there. Program models describe the key elements of an intervention, including what it takes to implement it,…

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data Innovation project and the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC) Pilot were established to expand the routine use, integration, and analysis of TANF and employment data by agency staff to improve…

The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic put extraordinary demands on program administrators and front-line staff members, as service delivery methods and client needs rapidly changed. Workers providing essential services during this…