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.
The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan authored this policy brief, which offers lessons learned from New York City’s conditional cash transfer program, Opportunity NYC: Family Rewards. The program was targeted to six of New…
Many States are currently working to increase support services to improve the health and development of young children. From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this issue brief offers information, opportunities, and challenges that…
Savings accounts that are started when children are born can allow parents to build savings to pay for college, home ownership, and businesses. This report is from the Center for Social Development, the Corporation for Enterprise Development (…
Nationwide, the Housing Choice Voucher Program serves nearly 2 million low-income households mostly in urban areas. From the Urban Institute, this review of the literature explores the evidence on neighborhood location outcomes for people…
The Urban Institute released a report that provides an overview of why housing choices matter for influencing better outcomes for families. HUD’s proposal for transforming federal rental assistance program is designed to expand subsidy recipients…
As a strategy to provide asset-based training for caseworkers and serve New Mexico's growing population of individuals with substance abuse barriers, New Mexico Works requested a substance abuse case management training, with a focus on…
The Urban Institute authored this report on child care quality, and explores why the quality of child care programs varies across the country. Authors provide an overview of how public initiatives can help poor-quality child care programs improve…
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, this report offers information on how states can use federal stimulus dollars provided through the TANF Emergency Fund to provide emergency food assistance to needy families through food banks,…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued this report on revised USDA policy for free school meals for children. Under the new policy, if anyone in a household is a recipient of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…