The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 changed cash welfare from a system of income maintenance as an entitlement to low-income families to one in which assistance to families is both limited and…

The Welfare Peer TA completed an analysis of Delaware's strategies for identifying substance abuse among A Better Chance Families. This provides the Executive Summary as well as a set of appendices that include promising practices from other…

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network is a federally funded initiative through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance.  The objective of the Welfare Peer TA Network is to…

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families, supported a 2-day conference held by Office of Family Assistance, Region VI, examining the issues of domestic violence and substance abuse as…

The Olmstead Decision and Welfare-to-Work ACF Region IV Meeting was held on August 23-24, 2000, at The Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 80 participants attended, including State Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (…

This report summarizes the key issues and lessons learned at the joint ACF and SAMHSA national conference, Welfare Reform: Employment Strategies for Overcoming Substance Abuse/Mental Health Barriers, held in Reno, Nevada, on July 26-27,…

Five years after the passage of the welfare reform law, States have achieved unprecedented declines in their welfare caseloads. However, one of the most prominent roadblocks that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) clients face to a…

A Look at State Welfare Reform Efforts to Address Substance Abuse is an eight-State case study that examines different State and county strategies in serving TANF recipients with substance abuse problems. This year-long comparative case…

This study of Utah's long-term welfare families represents a commitment by the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) to understand and document the situations of families as they reach the mandatory three-year lifetime limit for receipt of…

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network supported a one and one-half day technical assistance event in New Hampshire on April 4 and 5, 2000. The first day of the event centered on training for approximately 25 state professionals working with…