West Virginia Stakeholders Forum: Building an EITC Statewide Initiative for Regional Community Coalitions

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The Welfare Peer TA Network sponsored this statewide Forum event that took place in Charleston, WV, on November 2, 2005. The Forum was designed as a follow-up to the initial Peer TA Event on the WV EITC Initiative Conference held in January 2005. The Forum was designed to move the statewide EITC agenda into action by increasing dialogue between participating agencies, community organizations, and volunteer groups regarding the 2006 tax season and to focus the statewide effort to build and expand community coalitions to make the EITC more accessible to low-income families and families leaving TANF in West Virginia.

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2005-10-31T19:00:00
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2005-11-01
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Anne Arundel County Site Visit

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The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, coordinated two-day site visits at the request of several Regional and State Department of Health and Human Services Offices. States were invited to participate based on findings resulting from the Network’s national needs assessment regarding the challenges and successes of implementation of State welfare reform initiatives. Ms. Vesta Kimble, Deputy Director of the Anne Arundel County Department of Social Services, led the site visit. Ms. Kimble provided an in-depth description of Anne Arundel County’s Family Investment Program. This technical assistance event afforded participants an opportunity to observe Anne Arundel’s welfare service delivery system first hand.
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1999-03-31T19:00:00
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1999-04-01
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Identifying Mental Health Among TANF Eligible Clients

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In 2003, the State of West Virginia submitted a Peer TA request form, asking for assistance in determining the most effective mental/emotional health screening instrument available to meet the needs of their TANF clients. This short report summarizes the technical assistance request, and provides information on screening and assessing the mental health of TANF eligible clients.
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2003-01-31T19:00:00
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2003-02-01
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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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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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