TANF Caseload and Application Data for the Third Quarter of FY 2015

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The Office of Family Assistance recently published the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) caseload and application for the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2015. During that quarter, an average of 1.6 million families were receiving TANF and Separate State Program (SSP) assistance per month. This indicates a decrease of about four percent from the same time period in FY 2014.
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2015-10-15T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-caseload-data-2015
Publication Date
2015-10-16

Prohibition on Use of Federal TANF and State MOE Funds for Juvenile Justice Services

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This Office of Family Assistance Program Instruction (PI) reminds TANF jurisdictions that federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE) funds cannot be used to provide juvenile justice services. The Office of Family Assistance identified that several states are using federal TANF and/or MOE funds to provide services to individuals who are under the jurisdiction of the state's juvenile justice system. This PI is to remind TANF agencies about established policy in this area.
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2015-10-07T20:00:00
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Region
City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-acf-pi-2015-02
Publication Date
2015-10-08

Evaluation of the Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and their Partners

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As part of the Marriage and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers and their Partners (MFS-IP), twelve grantees received funding from the Office of Family Assistance to implement activities to support and sustain marriages and families of fathers during and after incarceration. Grantees also provided reentry, parenting, education, and employment services. The evaluation includes publications such as research briefs, reviews of promising practices, and implementation data.
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2015-11-01T19:00:00
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Region
City/County
URL
https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/evaluation-marriage-and-family-strengthening-…
Publication Date
2015-11-02

State of the Field Scan #2: Resident Services in Mixed-Income Developments

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The National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities at Case Western Reserve University published this “State of the Field Scan” that explores how a mixed-income housing approach has transformed deteriorating public housing complexes into safer and more attractive developments for residents from a range of income levels. The report describes how mixed-income developments provide services to improve well-being and self-sufficiency. The authors conducted an online survey with representatives from 60 mixed-income housing developments to gather information on the demographics of the community as well as data on the types of supportive services provided, how developments tracked service use, and the developments' perceived outcomes of services provided.
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2015-08-30T20:00:00
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Region
City/County
URL
http://msass.case.edu/new-report-scan-of-the-field-on-resident-services-in-mixe…
Publication Date
2015-08-31

Career Pathways Website

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This new career pathways website is a hub for information about career pathways research from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE). It includes the PACE study, the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) research portfolio, and other programs being evaluated.

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2015-11-30T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
Region
City/County
URL
http://www.career-pathways.org/
Publication Date
2015-12-01

Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Technical Supplement to the Evaluation Design Report: Impact Analysis Plan

Record Description
This report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) provides detailed information about the planned impact analyses for the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) project. The PACE Impact Study is designed to answer questions about the overall program effectiveness for the nine programs in PACE, each involving a different configuration of career pathways design components. This resource provides a description of the nine programs studied, summarizes the characteristics of the sample enrolled in each program, and specifies the hypotheses that PACE will test in separate analyses for each of the programs in the study.
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2015-11-19T19:00:00
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Region
City/County
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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/pathways-for-advancing-careers-and-educati…
Publication Date
2015-11-20

Michigan Earn and Learn: An Outcome and Implementation Evaluation of a Transitional Job and Training Program

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From the Social Impact Research Center, this resource presents findings from an 18-month evaluation of a Michigan statewide program designed to link participants with employment barriers to both training and subsidized jobs. The report focuses on program design, implementation, and outcomes. The authors recommend providing basic skills training if a program’s target population has complex barriers to employment, as well as emphasizing the high level of value that employer partners gain from these types of programs.
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2014-04-29T20:00:00
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City/County
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http://www.issuelab.org/resource/michigan_earn_and_learn_an_outcome_and_impleme…
Publication Date
2014-04-30

Poor, Unemployed, and Not on Welfare: The Prevalence of "Disconnected Families" by State

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U.S. families living in poverty who survive without either income from a job or from government-sponsored cash assistance are sometimes referred to as “disconnected.” This research brief from Child Trends uses data from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health to quantify the population of children living in disconnected families in each state and to describe the extent to which families access other forms of public assistance. Some findings include: 30 percent of all children lived in disconnected families in 2011-2012; the majority of children in disconnected families lived in a household where someone received some form of public assistance, such as Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program; and the amount of children in disconnected families varied widely by State.
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2015-02-01T19:00:00
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Region
City/County
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http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-03DisconnectedFamili…
Publication Date
2015-02-02

WIOA Planning and Implementation Toolkit

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This toolkit released by Heartland Alliance, National Initiatives on Poverty and Economic Opportunity includes briefs and resources relating to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The resources provide stakeholders with recommendations for ensuring that the workforce system will increase employment and opportunity for jobseekers.

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2015-09-30T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
URL
http://www.heartlandalliance.org/nationalinitiatives/field-building/wioa.html
Publication Date
2015-10-01

Funding Career Pathways: A Federal Funding Toolkit for States

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The career pathways approach can improve fragmented and broken educational pipelines. The approach links education and training services to help students advance to higher levels of education and employment in a given sector. The career pathways framework combines adult education, training, and postsecondary programs and connects those with employers’ needs. This toolkit, developed by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), is intended to help interagency state teams identify and use federal resources to support career pathways models. It also includes summaries of various federal programs that may strengthen states’ career pathways initiatives by providing more ways to obtain support services for students.

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2015-02-24T19:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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City/County
URL
https://www.clasp.org/publications/report/brief/funding-career-pathways-and-car…
Publication Date
2015-02-25