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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

Research-To-Practice Brief

In recent years, significant focus has been placed on the concept of toxic stress and the impact of adverse experiences in childhood on lifelong health and development. As scientific understanding continues to grow, community leaders are searching…

Toolkit

This toolkit, created through Colorado’s Work Support Strategies (WSS) grant, is designed to help county and community-based organizations define, measure, and use well-being metrics to improve services and achieve outcomes. It includes a “how to”…

Stakeholder Resource

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, this guide features a collection of resources for TANF administrators and other practitioners on career…

Stakeholder Resource

This guide from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) provides an introduction to labor market information (LMI) for TANF administrators. It includes uses for LMI data, distinctions among types of data, and explains how TANF…

Toolkit

This kit, developed by IDEO, provides tools to help programs engage in human-centered design. Human-centered design is a creative approach to problem solving that starts by learning directly from the people you’re designing for in order to build…

Fact / Tip Sheet

This resource from the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology at the Social Science Research Institute deals with two issues that come up for researchers when asking people sensitive questions: 1) social desirability bias (where respondents answer in…

Toolkit

The Larimer County Workforce Center (Colorado) website provides tools that can assist individuals as they plan a career path. The tools include assessments of interests and values, skills assessments, and tools for understanding…

Toolkit

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…

Report

This annual report is mandated by Utah’s Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act, and requires the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) to report on the status of individuals experiencing intergenerational poverty. Since…

Stakeholder Resource

ACT WorkKeys is a job skills assessment system that helps employers select, hire, train, develop, and retain a high-performance workforce. This series of tests measures foundational and soft skills, and offers specialized…