This toolkit from the Heartland Alliance offers resources that youth employment stakeholders can use to guide programming for opportunity youth facing the most significant barriers to employment. Resources include research briefs, case studies, and promising practices and principles to guide programming.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), published online by the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, is the first legislative reform of the public workforce system in 15 years. The Act outlines provisions for improving the U.S. workforce system.

This online learning module from Workforce3One provides an introduction to the new Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) law, including information on governing and operating the system and delivering high quality, effective services.

This resource from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) provides a break-down of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), including insight on implementation strategies to help low-income families and individuals climb the economic ladder. 

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) created this guide for writing easy-to-read materials for audiences who have trouble reading or understanding information. The guide offers tips on how to understand your audience, how to write clearly and format materials cleanly, and how to evaluate your materials for readability.

The TANF/WIOA Learning Community is an initiative sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance. Developed in response to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which offers an opportunity for significant and improved collaboration between workforce agencies and partners such as TANF, the community brings together seven teams from states across the country to explore strategies for successful integration of TANF and workforce programs. Through the initiative, teams focus on WIOA planning and implementation strategies ranging from creation of a common vision to on-the-ground implementation. The learning community kicked off in September 2015 with a Peer Exchange Workshop and continues through 2016 with ongoing technical assistance including webinars, conference calls, peer-to-peer support, and resource sharing.

This Ramsey County, Minnesota website provides resources in PDF format under the "Training" tab for the Diversionary Work and Minnesota Family Investment Programs. Multiple resources are included, such as service provider trainings in 2015 and 2014, that cover the topics of coaching, domestic violence, and executive functioning.

This report presents findings from an intervention designed to increase the number of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients who “reengaged” in Los Angeles County’s welfare-to-work program.

Two behaviorally informed notices went out to different groups of participants:

• A notice highlighting the losses they might face by not attending the reengagement appointment; and
• A notice highlighting the benefits they might receive by attending.

A third control group did not receive either behaviorally informed notice.

Participants received the notice one week before their appointment. The test found that receiving a behaviorally informed notice increased the percentage of group members who engaged in the program within 30 days of their scheduled reengagement appointment, with the increase driven by the loss notice (author abstract).

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is conducting new research on this topic with the goal of learning more about potential racial and ethnic disparities in human services and how a better understanding of these disparities could be used to improve human service program delivery for ACF. The project will investigate ethnic and racial differences in the access to and take-up of human services and will develop a plan to analyze racial and ethnic disparities in the nature and quality of services received and outcomes of services. Particular ACF programs of interest include TANF, Head Start, Child Care, and Child Support. The project has been awarded to the Urban Institute and will run from September 2015 through March 2017. If you are interested in learning more about this project, please contact Kim Clum at OPRE at Kimberly.clum@acf.hhs.gov.