The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will host a webinar on April 23, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. ET to provide guidance on how to identify and understand key immigration documents used for eligibility verification. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs can use this information to strengthen program integrity and reduce processing delays by helping staff more confidently and accurately verify participant eligibility, ensuring families receive timely access to benefits while maintaining compliance with federal requirements.

The Heritage Foundation will host a webinar on April 30, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. ET to explore how family stability connects to broader economic and social outcomes. This presentation will help Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs to better understand how strengthening family relationships and supports can complement employment and income-focused services, producing stable families that achieve more sustainable outcomes.

This resource explains how state and federal policies may create “marriage penalties” (financial disincentives to marry) or “marriage bonuses” (financial incentives to marry) for low-income families. For Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs, this highlights a key challenge: families may face tradeoffs between financial stability and forming or maintaining two-parent households.

This report can be a useful tool for practitioners to better understand why clients may hesitate to report household changes or pursue marriage. The report helps staff have targeted conversations about program impacts and the benefits of marriage, anticipate barriers, and think through ways to better align TANF services with family stability goals.

This initiative highlights the importance of coordinated, community-based approaches to supporting families and preventing child welfare involvement. TANF programs can use this model to strengthen cross-system partnerships and align services across child welfare, community organizations, and other supports. By leveraging collaborative approaches, TANF agencies can expand access to prevention-focused services that promote stability, safety, and family well-being.

This resource page from the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services highlights state-level prevention strategies, including in-home family support and kinship navigator programs. TANF programs can use these models to expand prevention-focused services and strengthen partnerships with child welfare and community organizations. These approaches demonstrate how coordinated, family-centered strategies can reduce risk factors and support child safety while keeping families together.

This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resource provides evidence-based strategies and tools to help prevent child abuse and neglect, including the Prevention Resource for Action. The resource highlights practical approaches that strengthen families, reduce risk factors, and promote safe, stable environments for children.

For TANF programs, these strategies align with efforts to support families through economic assistance and work-focused services that help reduce stressors impacting caregiving. Programs can use this resource to inform service delivery, strengthen coordination with public health, child welfare, and community partners, and reinforce approaches that support family stability and continuity.

This resource from the Children’s Safety Network highlights data, strategies, and cross-sector approaches to preventing child abuse and neglect. It offers practical insight into how coordinated efforts across systems can better support families and reduce risk factors early.

TANF programs can use this guide to strengthen prevention-focused services by aligning with child welfare, public health, and community partners. By using data and evidence-informed strategies, programs can improve coordination, target supports more effectively, and reinforce stable, family-based environments.

The American Public Human Services Association will host a webinar on May 7, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. to explore how childcare systems and TANF programs can better align in a shifting policy and operational environment. TANF programs can use these insights to strengthen partnerships with childcare administrators, improve access to subsidized care, and better support work participation and family stability.

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services hosted a webinar on April 16, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. ET. They provided an overview of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) process as well as highlighted SAVE’s Case Management, Agency Management and User Management features.

CareerOneStop’s Skills Matcher is an online tool that helps individuals identify their skills and connect them to potential career pathways. TANF programs can use this resource to support participants in identifying strengths and exploring employment opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency.