The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center will host a webinar on March 6, 2019 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET to describe aspects of a two-generational approach, discuss how two-generation or whole family approaches support anti-trafficking, and show through case studies from organizations in areas besides trafficking how two-generational approaches are connected to adverse childhood experiences.

This Office of Family Assistance-sponsored webinar on February 26, 2019 discussed the complexities of engaging two-parent families in TANF, and featured strategies to improve employment outcomes through relationship education. Representatives from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Insight Policy Research, Public Strategies and the Urban Institute participated.

The Aspen Institute will livestream the 2019 Aspen Forum on Children and Families on February 26 and February 27, 2019 between 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. ET. The forum, the second of its kind, convenes policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and philanthropies to identify and discuss “big ideas” for investing in children and families using a two-generation approach.

This Community Action Partnership workbook contains a checklist of 12 components for community action agencies to use; this checklist encompasses the design and implementation of whole family approaches that result in improved integration of services tailored to the unique needs of families requesting services. The workbook’s goal is to help organizations consider the crucial elements of their approach and create an image of present and future work by reviewing the strength and extent of their services.

This blog post from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is part of the "Self-Sufficiency Series: Solutions from the Field" and highlights the Jeremiah Program, a nonprofit organization that strives to put families on the path toward self-sufficiency by using a family-centered approach with both parents and their children. Primarily funded by private donations, Jeremiah helps low-income single mothers complete their education and at the same time provides access to high-quality early childhood education for their children. Participants may be eligible for federal and local child care and housing subsidies. This two-generation approach reports that 81 percent of children who attended a Jeremiah child development center are performing at or above grade level in elementary or middle school.

This testimony from an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute was presented to the Subcommittee on Human Resources within the Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S. House of Representatives. The author critiques TANF for not sufficiently reaching children in poverty, spending limited funds outside the original policy goals, and failing to offer training and education for good jobs, among other issues. She recommends TANF improvements such as setting spending floors for core benefits, furthering 21st century skills and education training, and writing in an explicit child poverty reduction goal. These changes, she argues, will help children in poverty and increase parental socioeconomic mobility as TANF originally intended.

In this November 7 webinar sponsored by the Community Action Partnership, participants will learn more about the building blocks agencies need to construct to successfully shift to a whole family approach. This webinar will specifically focus on the building block related to aligning services for parents and children together. Additionally, participants will learn how to access the outstanding resources coming from the whole family approach efforts of the Learning Community.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance (OFA) Regions I through IV hosted the OFA Regions I-IV East Coast TANF Directors’ Meeting, Leveraging Partnerships to Help Families Achieve Economic Stability, on July 24-26, 2018 at the Westin Boston Waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting convened representatives from TANF programs from Regions I-IV and provided TANF representatives with an opportunity to learn about promising practices, discuss shared challenges faced by TANF programs, and share ideas with peers from other states about how to respond to the needs of low-income families. The meeting also included practitioners and researchers who shared information about their own work, and who looked to TANF representatives and federal partners for future research opportunities. Representatives attended presentations from experts and program administrators, and worked with other states to think of innovative practices during Team Work sessions.

The National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) and Innovate+Educate invite workforce development boards wanting to learn about and integrate two-generation or family-centered approaches into their workforce development services to participate in the Family Centered Employment Community of Practice (FCE CoP). Through the FCE CoP, participating workforce development boards can: learn about family-centered employment strategies, share information and tools, determine strategies on collecting and using data and on leveraging resources to support a whole family approach, and learn how policy affects serving the whole family. Deadline for applications is December 20, 2018, 11:59 p.m. EST.

This report, produced by the University of Maryland, examines characteristics of adults who receive Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) for children. Maryland’s TCA focuses on the economic stability of entire families by focusing both on child academic success and earning potential of caregivers. However, TCA services differ. Some families qualify for benefits for both themselves and their children, while other adults receive benefits only for children. This report evaluates the different sociodemographic characteristics between recipient and non-recipient adults, and assesses whether these different strategies affect the children under their care. Promoting the well-being of all children – regardless whether a caregiver is a recipient – is an important component of multiple-generation programs.