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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.

Implementing Evidence-Based IPS-Supported Employment with a TANF Population

Webinar / Webcast

A January 9, 2019 webinar will discuss the implementation and outcomes of the Individual Placement and Support-Supported Employment practice for TANF families. This webinar will feature the Project Director for SAMHSA’s Transforming Lives through…

Testing Two Subsidized Employment Approaches for Recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Implementation and Early Impacts of the Los Angeles County Transitional Subsidized Employment

Report

This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation presents early findings from a random assignment evaluation of subsidized employment for TANF participants in Los Angeles County. The report analyzes the impact of two approaches to…

Improving employment and earnings for TANF recipients

Report

Over the past two decades, federal and state policymakers have dramatically reshaped the nation’s system of cash welfare assistance for low-income families. Through national legislation and state-initiated reform and experimentation, policymakers…

Providing earnings supplements to encourage and sustain employment: Lessons from research and practice

Report

This brief presents findings, and lessons for policy and practice, from MDRC-conducted studies of five programs that provided earnings supplements and that have been rigorously evaluated using a random assignment research design: the Canadian…

Alternative employment strategies for hard-to-employ TANF recipients: Final results from a test of transitional jobs and preemployment services in Philadelphia

Report

As welfare caseloads have declined over the past decade, policymakers and…

Creating Work Opportunities: Assisting TANF Recipients Living with Disabilities to Obtain and Maintain Employment

Research-To-Practice Brief

This resource is from Mathematica Policy Research and provides an overview of innovative work opportunity programs for TANF recipients with disabilities. Specifically, authors provide profiles of three strategies that can be utilized to support…

Assisting TANF recipients living with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment: Creating work opportunities

Report

The emphasis on placing TANF recipients into paid employment quickly is consistent with employment assistance approaches employed by several recent demonstration projects (outside of TANF) for youth and adults living with a disability. However,…

Assisting TANF recipients living with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment: Providing specialized personal and work support

Report

Personal and work supports can be instrumental in helping TANF recipients living with disabilities prepare for and maintain employment. For many TANF recipients living with disabilities, the path to self-sufficiency is encumbered by personal and…

Assisting TANF recipients living with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment: Final report

Report

This report represents the first step in the process of identifying initiatives intended to assist TANF recipients living with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment that may be worthy of further study. The outcomes and impacts of such…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: Results from the Texas ERA site

Report

Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is…

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