This article, from the director of the Office of Family Assistance (OFA), discusses OFA’s response to the opioid crisis. OFA is targeting the hardest hit communities and focusing on the economic impact on low- income families. They are hosting…

On March 21, 2018 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. EST, in recognition of Women’s History Month, this National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse webinar will highlight the important roles that women have played, and continue to play, in the field of…

This letter from Clarence H. Carter, Director of the Office of Family Assistance, highlights several OFA-funded resources available to states wanting to participate in efforts to strengthen marriages, support healthy relationships, and encourage…

This study from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation examined the effects of transitional and subsidized employment programs on outcomes of well-being beyond financial measures. The data was collected as part of the Subsidized and…

Learn more about Wisconsin’s journey through career pathway policy alignment and system change at the local, regional, and state levels. In this webinar, participants will hear from Scott DuBenske, Education Director at the Wisconsin Technical…

This article from Social Solutions looks at how understanding the employer perspective is a key to successful engagement between workforce programs and employers. Employers rely on workforce development organizations to help them understand and…

This brief from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is aimed at practitioners interested in helping clients reach self-sufficiency by focusing on goal-making abilities. The brief describes the importance of the ability to set and achieve…

Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a capacity-building approach to program interventions that aims to promote soft skills, positive relationships, community involvement, family-school-work linkages, and academic engagement among youth to create a…

This issue brief from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison explores the connection between opioid abuse and economic disadvantage within the research. It highlights the statistics that show that the opioid…

This University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research report studies how SNAP addresses food insecurity’s effect on health and healthcare utilization for low-income families with incomes below 50 percent of the poverty line compared with those…