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 Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network resource highlights how collocating social services directly within community settings can reduce barriers to access and improve engagement among families. By embedding supports where families already live or receive services, programs can increase participation and streamline referrals across systems. For TANF programs, onsite service models offer a practical strategy to strengthen coordination with workforce and human services partners, helping families more easily access the full range of supports needed for employment and stability.

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 Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides flexible funds to states, territories, and tribes to support services that alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty and promote self-sufficiency, particularly by planning, coordination, and organization of local services, innovation, and community participation.

This Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation brief, co-written by Administration for Children and Families’ Assistant Secretary Alex Adams, describes the reporting practices used by CSBG. The brief delves into the burden associated with the reporting process and how the use of CSBG funds could be better documented. For TANF programs, it highlights the need to balance streamlined reporting with accurate, meaningful data that reflects how funds are used.

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services hosted a webinar on April 1, 2026 and provided an overview of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) process as well as highlighted SAVE’s Case Management, Agency Management and User Management features.

The THRIVE Initiative eLearning platform offers courses at zero cost, designed to strengthen organizational capacity and improve service delivery across human services programs. Topics include leadership, collaboration, and system improvement strategies that support whole-family approaches. TANF programs can use these self-paced courses to build staff capacity, enhance program effectiveness, and support continuous quality improvement efforts.

This program profile from the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network highlights how Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest supports kinship caregivers through navigation services, resource connections, and community-based supports. The model demonstrates how coordinated services can help stabilize kinship placements and improve outcomes for children and caregivers. TANF programs can draw lessons from this approach to strengthen partnerships and better support relatives caring for children outside the traditional foster care system.