There is considerable flexibility within TANF to focus on preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy and many states have made good use of this flexibility to invest TANF funds in a variety of strategies to reduce teen and unplanned or non-marital pregnancy. This report from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) highlights teen and young adult pregnancy prevention efforts from various states.

Understanding the dynamics of adolescent relationship abuse and working to prevent it can help adolescent pregnancy prevention projects meet their mission of promoting the sexual health and overall well-being of young people. This toolkit, prepared by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program’s Training and Technical Assistance and Meeting Logistical Support project for the Family and Youth Services Bureau, walks sexual health educators and other youth workers through the steps of making relationship violence prevention an integral part of their adolescent pregnancy prevention work.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) developed a brief intended primarily for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working in the field of teen pregnancy prevention research. Most teen pregnancy prevention programs have been evaluated only once through a small-scale “efficacy trial.” Recent efforts have been made to study how programs perform when implemented on a broader scale, with different populations, or in new settings. The following brief provides practical guidance for making sense of the growing body of research related to replication studies.

This report from the Congressional Research Service examines data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics on teenage childbearing, offers potential explanations for high teen pregnancy and birth rates, and provides information about federal programs whose purpose is primarily to reduce teen pregnancy.

This report from the National Vital Statistics Reports presents data on United States births according to various characteristics. Data are presented for maternal age, birth order, race and ethnicity, marital status, and more.

This presentation highlights observations and findings from a yearlong study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) grant programs, with a focus on strategies for connecting justice-involved youth and adult returning citizens to work, education, and training programs. The presentation, given by ICF International at a congressional briefing on reentry and employment hosted by the Union Theological Seminary, provides a high-level overview of the study’s key findings, methods, existing research bases and promising practices in the areas of career pathways, assessment and case management, and justice collaborations.

This blog post from the Office of Public and Indian Housing highlights the Summer Opportunity Project, a federal interagency initiative to connect youth with employment and education in communities across the United States. The post provides success stories from youth around the country and notes how the Summer Opportunity Project has helped them thrive.

This blog post from the Administration for Children and Families provides a discussion of Career Pathways, which are a promising solution to help Americans acquire marketable and in-demand skills through integrated programs and services for students and job seekers transitioning from education to employment. In April 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services formed a federal partnership and issued a joint letter of commitment. The partnership helps promote the use of career pathways to assist youth and adults in acquiring valuable skills and credentials through better alignment with employers, educational institutions, training and employment providers, and human and social service agencies. Building on that work, ACF has expanded support to multiple agencies to foster better coordination of programs and services.

The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has posted Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Separate State Program Maintenance of Effort (SSP-MOE) Characteristics data for fiscal year (FY) 2014. The tables provide national- and state-level data for FY 2014 of TANF program recipients by characteristics and financial circumstances. The tables include demographic data on the age, gender, and race/ethnicity of children and adults in TANF families for active and closed cases.