OFA PeerTA Website Demo

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA) hosted this webinar that highlights the redesigned OFA PeerTA (PeerTA) website. PeerTA facilitates information sharing between states, counties, localities, tribal organizations, and community-based organizations working with TANF participants and families. The PeerTA website functions as the communications vehicle for the PeerTA model by facilitating dialogue at the state, county, local, and tribal level. In this brief webinar, we provided a demo of the key features of the PeerTA website and how the website can support TANF stakeholders in their work with families.
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2015-04-28T11:00:00
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Embedding job and career advancement services in Healthy Marriage programs: Lessons from two programs in PACT

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This brief provides a general overview of the two Healthy Marriage (HM) grantees involved in the Parents and Children Together Evaluation (PACT), provides participation rates in services, and documents how the two grantees integrated job and career advancement services for parenting couples into their programs. This brief uses data obtained through staff interviews and program observations during site visits; ongoing interactions with program leadership; and data from a management information system that programs use to record data on couples’ receipt of services. (author abstract)

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2015-04-12T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/embedding-job-and-career-advancement-healt…
Publication Date
2015-04-13

WIOA Quick Start Action Planner

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The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) released a new technical assistance tool for implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The WIOA Quick Start Action Planner (QSAP) is an interactive assessment tool designed to help practitioners at all levels of the public workforce system prepare to implement WIOA. Users will be able to identify their workforce systems' strengths and areas for improvement, as well as access resources to help plan and prepare for WIOA.

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2015-03-22T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.workforcegps.org/QSAP_App
Publication Date
2015-03-23

OFA has Issued a "Dear Colleague" Letter on DOL WIOA Youth TEGL and Use of TANF Funds for Summer Youth Employment

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The Administration for Children and Families' Office of Family Assistance issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to their TANF program stakeholders. The letter highlights a Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) issued on March 26, 2015 by the Employment and Training Administration at the Department of Labor (DOL). The TEGL explains the broad vision for the youth services included in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Additionally, it references another letter jointly issued by DOL, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April 2014 that encouraged youth providers and Public Housing Agencies to develop summer programs for at-risk and low-income youth. This "Dear Colleague" letter reinforces ACF's support for the use of TANF resources to strengthen summer youth employment programs. These programs provide employment, education, and skills like financial literacy and time management.
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2015-03-30T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/training-and-employment-guidance-letter-tegl
Publication Date
2015-03-31

Program Flexibility, Career Pathways, and Improving Employment Outcomes for TANF Participants

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On June 24, 2014, the Office of Family Assistance hosted a webinar that explored the promise and potential of career pathways practices tailored for TANF participants and other low-income, low-skilled individuals and those with barriers to employment. This webinar, "Program Flexibility, Career Pathways, and Improving Employment Outcomes for TANF Participants" featured experts from the field and TANF program representatives who highlighted how to maximize regulatory flexibility to implement career pathways, while strengthening the employment opportunities of participants.
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2014-06-23T22:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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2014-06-24
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Behavioral Economics and Social Policy: Designing Innovative Solutions for Programs Supported by the Administration for Children and Families

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This report discusses the Behavioral Interventions to Advance in Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project, which utilizes tools from behavioral economics to improve the livelihood of low-income individuals and their families. The report illustrates how the project draws on principles of behavioral economics to develop solutions for ACF programs and shares insights from three case studies.
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2014-04-14T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
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http://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/bias_final_full_report_rev4_15_14.pdf
Publication Date
2014-04-15

Better Together: Work and Work Support

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In this blog entry from the Brookings Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities, Ron Haskins introduces a two-pronged approach to substantially reduce poverty rates. He argues that the combination of work and work-support elements of the current system reinforce one another and contribute to alleviating poverty. Haskins also references his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on the same subject.
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2015-02-12T19:00:00
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https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/02/13/better-together…
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2015-02-13

Coordinating Employment Services across the TANF and WIA Programs

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A recent study initiated by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) focused on the supports, strategies, and considerations influencing coordination across TANF and WIA programs in the U.S. This report highlights promising practices from eight states and 11 localities regarding the coordination of TANF and WIA services. It also provides readers with 12 strategies used by the study sites, which fall under the following components: administration and management, funding, policies and procedures, program missions and knowledge, services for customers, and accountability and performance measurement.
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2015-02-01T19:00:00
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/coordinating-employment-services-across-th…
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2015-02-02

Webinar: The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: What it Means for ACF Programs

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The Administration for Children and Families presented this Webinar titled in November 2014. The Webinar provided information about the implications of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for ACF programs, including TANF, the Community Services Block Grant and Homeless Youth, and Foster Care.

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2014-11-20T09:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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2014-11-20
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BLS Statistics by Occupation, 2014

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a spotlight web feature that provides statistics about wages and jobs in the United States. The feature pulls data from the Occupational Employment Statistics program and emphasizes STEM jobs. Users are able to view spotlight occupational data by required educational level.
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2014-07-31T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2014/occupations/home.htm
Publication Date
2014-08-01