The Peer TA Network hosted an event titled, “The Challenge of Welfare Reform: The Employer Perspective”, which featured the following speakers: Alicia Fernandez-Mott, Office of Welfare-to-Work, Department of Labor; Rodney Carroll, UPS; Thomas Harnett, BMC Enterprises; and James Schaffer, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services.

On June 3, 2004, the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network sponsored a one-day site visit to the Human Resources Administration (HRA) in New York City (NYC). The purpose of the site visit was to provide the State of Maryland, Department of Human Resources (DHR), Family Investment Administration (FIA) staff the opportunity to observe New York's use of JobStat, a program which allows the city to set goals and monitor and measure outcomes of performance indicators established for NYC welfare recipients, workers, and job centers.