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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.

Goal4 It!: Implementation Findings from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations

Report

Goal4 It!™ is a participant-…

Mobile Coaching: Innovation and Small-Scale Experimentation to Better Engage Program Participants in Rural Colorado

Profile / Case Study

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report provides a qualitative review of the Mobile Coaching model used in La Plata County, Colorado to address transportation barriers that TANF participants in rural communities face. Under the…

Experimenting with Caseworker Direction: Evidence from Voucher-Funded Job Training

Journal Article

Mathematica researchers studied the intensity of direction that caseworkers gave to voucher recipients selecting a job-training program. In particular, study findings indicated that those recipients who received the most directive approach from…

Lessons from the Implementation of Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)

Infographic

An MDRC infographic provides initial findings of the Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) initiative, which targets youth ages 15-25 who have been involved in the child welfare and justice systems, or who are homeless. The infographic…

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Seventeenth Report to Congress

Report

This report from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is a required annual report to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The report provides data on benefits provided only by Temporary Assistance…

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…

The Employment Retention and Advancement project: How effective are different approaches aiming to increase employment retention and advancement: Final Impacts for twelve models

Report

This report summarizes the final impact results for the national Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project. This project tested, using a random assignment design, the effectiveness of numerous programs intended to promote steady work and…

What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report: New Chance

Newsletter / E-Mail Alert

This newsletter is from the What Works Clearinghouse and provides an overview of the New Chance program. The program supports TANF recipients who have dropped out of school through GED preparation, life skill training, parenting programs,…

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…

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