Tips for Incorporating Peer-Based Strategies in Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Programs

The purpose of this tip sheet is to provide tips for SRAE and similar programs that seek to design and implement peer-based strategies.

Child Support Learning Agenda: A Brief Synthesis of Select Child Support Literature

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings from select child support literature identified by OPRE and OCSS and highlight remaining knowledge gaps.

Using Interactive Workshops to Inform Development of a Child Support Learning Agenda

This brief describes the process used to gather input for a future child support learning agenda and summarizes the key themes in questions identified during workshops with federal staff and external experts.

Adopting Motivation-Driven Approach to Case Management in HMRE Services

In the SIMR project, two HMRE grant recipients implemented an approach to case management that prioritizes participant goal setting and attainment. This brief shares tips for HMRE service providers to support strong implementation of motivation-driven case management.

Interactive Snapshots of the 2015 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grantees

This digital interactive brief provides an overview of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees that received five-year grants in 2015 from the Administration for Children and Families.

Learning from Those with Life Experience: Client Voices in the Understanding the Value of Centralized Services Study

This brief’s intended audience is those clients who contributed to the study, and the purpose is to provide clients with a summary of how the study team incorporated the experiences and insights clients shared into the study.

Under One Roof: Findings from the Understanding the Value of Centralized Services Study

The study is a broad inquiry to explore the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of centralizing services from the perspective of staff and clients.

Facing Challenges and Showing Resilience: Reflections of Workers from Low-Income Households During COVID-19

This brief summarize the experiences that 41 such workers shared during in-depth interviews. Capturing the often-neglected voices of those who have been directly impacted by the pandemic provides an important firsthand perspective on the pandemic’s impact on people in the low-wage labor market.

The Experiences, Needs, and Voices of Workers in Low-Income Households During COVID-19

This report summarizes the experiences of low-wage workers during the COVID-19 pandemic as shared through in-depth interviews with participants in four employment programs.

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA): Summary of Stakeholder Input on Research Priorities

This brief summarizes input on research priorities gathered from workforce system stakeholders and experts between November 2020 – April 2021 for the WIOA Research Portfolio project.

Approaches for Engaging Fathers in Child Support Programs (Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet explores three key strategies for child support agencies to engage fathers and improve family stability.

Father Engagement in Human Services (Infographic)

This infographic presents a framework for father engagement strategies in human services. The infographic defines father engagement and describes key strategies for improving father engagement in programming that can be taken at the program, organization, and system level.

Father Engagement in Human Services

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services encourages human services agencies to recognize fathers’ contributions to and desire to be involved in their children’s lives. This brief identifies approaches that human services programs can and do take to engage fathers in programming.

Case Study of an Employment Program for Youth and Services for Families: Community Action Organization (CAO) of Scioto County

This case study describes the Community Action Organization of Scioto County, a community hub for numerous services designed for people from low-income households, and focuses particularly on CAO’s employment and workforce services. This case study is a part of the State TANF Case Studies project.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Healthy Start Programs: Northeast Florida Healthy Start Coalition Fatherhood PRIDE

This case study highlights how a Healthy Start Coalition developed a fatherhood program—Fatherhood PRIDE— to recruit, enroll, and retain fathers in services that complement the objectives of the Healthy Start Coalition.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Family Nutrition and Health Programs: California WIC Association

This case study focuses on the California WIC Association (CWA), a non-profit state WIC association, and its work to support local WIC agencies to involve fathers in WIC programming.

Case Study of Father Engagement in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs: ForeverDads

This case study highlights the partnership development and program modifications ForeverDads made to engage fathers participating in substance use treatment programming, with the goal of improving economic mobility and other outcomes for these fathers, their families, and their children.

Operationalizing Changes to the Title I Youth Program Under WIOA

This report focuses on implementation of WIOA’s changes to the Title I youth program, administered at the Federal level by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL).

New Requirements for American Job Center Systems Regarding One-Stop Operators, Partnership Agreements, and Certification

This report focuses on implementation of key changes to financial and management requirements for the American Job Center (AJC) system in order to seamlessly deliver services to all workforce customers across various partners.

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs

These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating HMRE programs.

Pathways-to-Outcomes Snapshots: Tools for Building Evidence for Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Programs

These snapshots are intended for practitioners and researchers involved in designing, improving, or evaluating RF programs.

Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Responsible Fatherhood Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

This report presents the four RF Pathways-to-Outcomes models, related to outcomes for which at least one program in the PACT evaluation had statistically significant impacts: (1) healthy relationships between co-parents, (2) father development and well-being, (3) consistent employment; and (4) parenting...

Pathways-To-Outcomes: How Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Program Activities May Lead to Intended Outcomes

This report presents three HMRE Pathways-to-Outcomes models for HMRE programs serving adult couples, related to (1) delivering curriculum, (2) maximizing participation, and (3) addressing couple and individual characteristics.

Administering Work-Related Requirements Across Human Services Programs: Service Delivery Approaches

Part of the EMPOWERED study, this brief examines approaches for providing employment-related services to participants to help them meet the work-related requirements of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the public housing program.

Child Support Cooperation Requirements in Child Care Subsidy Programs and SNAP: Key Policy Considerations

This brief presents findings of a formative examination of the use of child support cooperation requirements among states that have executed the option to impose a child support cooperation requirement in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or child care subsidy program.

Child Support Cooperation Requirements in Child Care Subsidy Programs and SNAP: Key Policy Considerations (Infographic)

This infographic summarizes findings from a formative examination of the use of child support cooperation requirements among child care subsidy programs and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP).

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Study Highlights

This paper summarizes the Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers (AJCs) study design, key findings, and implications for the AJC system under the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act.

An Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers: Key Institutional Features of American Job Centers

This paper presents an overview of key institutional features of the American Job Center (AJC) service delivery system across the country.

Parents and Children Together: The Complex Needs of Low-Income Men and How Responsible Fatherhood Programs Address Them

This report examines (1) the characteristics and views of fathers who voluntarily enrolled in responsible fatherhood programs aimed at increasing their parental involvement, (2) how the programs were designed and implemented, and (3) how the fathers responded to the services offered in the programs.

Providing Financial Support for Children: Views and Experiences of Low-Income Fathers in the PACT Evaluation

This brief explores in-depth interviews with low-income fathers enrolled in responsible fatherhood programs about their experiences with the child support system.

Fathers' Views of Co-Parenting Relationships: Findings from the PACT Evaluation

In-depth qualitative interviews with a subset of low-income fathers participating in a Responsible Fatherhood program offer insights into the nature of fathers’ co-parenting relationships with their children’s mothers, the tenor of these relationships, and the fathers’ efforts to co-parent their children.

The Role of Social Networks Among Low-Income Fathers: Findings from the PACT Evaluation

Findings from the qualitative study of the Parents and Children Together evaluation offer insight into the social networks of low-income fathers and the organizational supports they turn to for assistance.

In Their Own Voices: The Hopes and Struggles of Responsible Fatherhood Program Participants in the Parents and Children Together Evaluation

This report describes findings from the first round of in-depth interviews conducted as part of the Parents and Children Together (PACT) evaluation. Interviews were held with 87 low-income, mostly noncustodial fathers who voluntarily enrolled in one of the four Responsible Fatherhood (RF) programs being...

Responsible Fatherhood Programs in the Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation

Policy interest and support for increasing the positive involvement of fathers in their children's lives has increased substantially in recent years, with a dedicated federal funding stream for responsible fatherhood programs.

Employer Resource Networks: Uniting Businesses and Public Partners to Improve Job Retention and Advancement for Low-Wage Workers

This issue brief describes the Employer Resource Network (ERN), an innovative, employer-based model that pulls together a consortium of small- to mid-size businesses to provide job retention services, work supports, and training opportunities for entry-level employees, many of whom are receiving public...

Early Implementation of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Findings from Exploratory Site Visits and Review of Program Plans

Provides information on the early design, operations, and implementation of the welfare-to-work grants program, finding a special emphasis on supported employment and increased attention to job retention in some programs.