Texas’s Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) program and the Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) programs in Arkansas are identified as successful examples of collaboration between vocational rehabilitation agencies and workforce boards. This Mathematica report also identifies key features of the programs so that policymakers can choose, develop, and adapt similar partnerships within their own context.

This MDRC evaluation report assesses a Transitional Living Program that targets youth in foster care or involved with the juvenile justice system. Youth Villages, a social service organization, created YVLife Set to provide individualized and intensive clinically focused case management, support, and counseling to help secure positive outcomes for young participants as they move to adulthood.

This Child Trends infographic presents analysis from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System (AFCARS) data. It presents a graphic of the United States that illustrates 39 states that experienced an increase in FY 2017 in the number of children and young persons in foster care. According to the latest data, 5.8 of every 1,000 U.S. children were in foster care in 2017.

This Jobs for the Future issue brief includes data and infographics that outline Federal programs designed to serve opportunity youth in poverty by bridging improved educational and economic outcomes, including TANF, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Pell Grants.

This Community Action Partnership workbook contains a checklist of 12 components for community action agencies to use; this checklist encompasses the design and implementation of whole family approaches that result in improved integration of services tailored to the unique needs of families requesting services. The workbook’s goal is to help organizations consider the crucial elements of their approach and create an image of present and future work by reviewing the strength and extent of their services.

This Annie E. Casey Foundation-supported study, authored by Brookings and Child Trends, identifies three factors that contribute to future economic progress among low-income youth: a post-secondary education (potentially equalizes young adults searching for high-quality jobs), labor market experience at an early age (predicts higher wages and job quality later in life), and relevant high school work-based learning experiences (involve positive relationships with adults and have a positive effect on job quality).

This fact sheet by the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research on Poverty reviews the challenges of low-wage jobs and identifies factors of economic instability; these factors include irregularity in work schedules and monthly income. The fact sheet considers how unpredictability can be a complicating issue for safety net program eligibility and affects the workers’ well-being.

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation literature review examines how state and local TANF agencies have implemented approaches to improve their organizational culture to be more client-centered. The review’s premise is that the agencies’ organizational culture affects TANF program implementation, both in terms of the clients and the work that frontline staff performs.