A Question about 3rd Party Expenditures & MOE

This Institute for Family Studies report examines the challenges many parents face in balancing economic pressures, caregiving responsibilities, and overall well-being. Findings highlight how financial stress, limited supports, and caregiving demands can affect family stability and long-term outcomes. For TANF programs, the report reinforces the importance of two-generation strategies that address both parental needs and child well-being, ensuring that supports such as child care, employment services, and mental health resources are aligned to strengthen the entire family unit.

This brief explores strategies to help young adults successfully connect to education and employment pathways. Effective career pathway models emphasize coordinated services, work-based learning, and strong partnerships across systems. For TANF programs, these approaches reinforce the importance of aligning employment services with education and training opportunities, especially for young parents and youth transitioning to independence, to support long-term economic mobility.

This clearinghouse from the American Public Human Services Association provides guidance on developing and managing third-party partnerships within SNAP E&T. For TANF programs, it offers practical strategies to expand service capacity and strengthen access to employment, training, and supportive services that support long-term workforce attachment for individuals transitioning off assistance.

This issue brief from the Office of Family Assistance explores how coordinated TANF and SNAP E&T services can improve employment and stability outcomes for families. It emphasizes alignment across programs to reduce service gaps and strengthen access to training, employment preparation, and supportive services during key transition points.

This resource hub from REDF provides practical tools and guidance for designing and strengthening employment and training strategies within SNAP E&T programs. TANF agencies can leverage these materials to complement existing employment services and expand access to structured skill-building and job placement supports for individuals moving beyond TANF.

Developed through the National Association of Workforce Boards’ SNAP E&T Community of Practice, this collection of tools and best practices supports effective program administration and service delivery. TANF programs can use these resources to identify opportunities for alignment with SNAP E&T partners and strengthen the continuity of employment supports available to individuals transitioning off TANF assistance.

The National Youth Employment Coalition will host a webinar on March 19, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. ET to explore how opportunity navigation and social capital strategies can help young people connect to education, training, and career pathways. TANF programs supporting youth and young parents may find these approaches valuable for strengthening workforce partnerships and improving employment outcomes.

A new brief from Child Trends examines how workforce and career programs can better support young people with foster care experience as they transition to employment and adulthood. Its roadmap format highlights flexible, individualized approaches to career services and the importance of supportive relationships and targeted workforce supports – insights that may help TANF programs strengthen partnerships serving young parents and youth transitioning from foster care.