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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.

Benefit-cost findings for three programs in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project

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This report presents an analysis of the financial benefits and costs of three diverse programs designed to…

Providing culturally relevant services: Programs in the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative implementation evaluation

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The Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative is a focused strategy to address the unique cultural, linguistic, demographic, and socioeconomic needs of a growing population of Hispanic children and families in the United States.

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The Building Strong Families project: Strengthening unmarried parents' relationships: The early impacts of Building Strong Families: Technical report

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This report is a technical supplement to the 15-month impact report for the Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation (Wood et al. 2010). It provides additional detail about the research design (Chapter I), analytic methods (Chapter II), and…

Working toward Wellness: Telephone care management for Medicaid recipients with depression, eighteen months after random assignment

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Although many public assistance recipients suffer from depression, few receive consistent treatment. This report on a telephonic care management program in Rhode Island that tried to encourage depressed parents who were receiving Medicaid to seek…

Piloting a community approach to Healthy Marriage Initiatives in five sites: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lexington, Kentucky; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; and Denver, Colorado

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In 2002, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) instituted the Community…

The Building Strong Families project: Strengthening unmarried parents' relationships: The early impacts of Building Strong Families

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Although most children raised by single parents fare well, on average, they are at…

Finding the next job: Reemployment strategies in retention and advancement programs for current and former welfare recipients

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This 12-page practitioner brief focuses on one aspect of the ERA programs — that is, their strategies to reemploy the many program participants who quickly lost jobs. Limited rigorous evidence is available on reemployment strategies. Moreover…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement: Final Impacts for twelve models

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This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and…

Do Assets Help Families Cope with Adverse Events?

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This article is from the Urban Institute, and authors review the role of assets in supporting families in times of crisis, such as job loss or health problems. Assets can be an important safety net to help maintain family wellbeing during such…

Strong Students, Strong Workers: Models for Student Success through Workforce Development and Community College Partnerships

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Community college and vocational training programs provided education to more than 6.2 million students in 2006, which represents about 35 percent of all postsecondary education students. These programs are often important in reaching low-income…

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