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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.

Helping Parents, Helping Children: Two-Generation Mechanisms

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This issue of Future of Children focuses on two-generation approaches to improving children’s development. A child’s home environment can impact stress, education, health, income, employment, and more throughout his or her life. Two-generation…

Do the effects of a relationship education program vary for different types of couples? Exploratory subgroup analysis in the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation

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The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the effectiveness of a skills-based relationship education program designed to help low-and modest-income married couples strengthen their relationships and to support…

Supporting youth transitioning out of foster care- Issue brief 1: Educational programs

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Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999,…

Supporting youth transitioning out of foster care- Issue brief 2: Financial literacy and asset building programs

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Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999,…

Supporting youth transitioning out of foster care- Issue brief 3: Employment programs

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Youth transitioning out of foster care and into adulthood need many supports to navigate the challenges they face. Over the past three decades, federal child welfare policy has significantly increased the availability of those supports. In 1999,…

Fathers are Critical to Families' Climb up the Economic Ladder

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This resource from ASCEND at the Aspen Institute discusses the parent engagement part of two-generation programming. Research shows that children engaged with both parents, custodial or not, experience better outcomes in life than children who are…

The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation: Early impacts on low-income families, Technical Supplement

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The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the…

Healthy Relationships, Employment, and Reentry

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The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families released a brief on healthy relationships, employment, and reentry. This brief provides an overview of the evidence supporting the interrelatedness of employment, healthy…

FY2013 Portfolio of Research in Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency

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The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families released a report outlining their portfolio of research related to welfare and family self-sufficiency projects for the fiscal year 2013. OPRE's…

The Negative Effects of Instability on Child Development: A Research Synthesis

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The Urban Institute released a paper discussing the negative effects of instability on child development. This paper reviewed and synthesized research on five areas of instability: family income, parental employment, family structure, housing,…

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