Designed to be used in partnership with a research or technical assistance (TA) support team, this practice guide can help leaders in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and related programs implement evidence-driven change.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs adapted in many innovative ways to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. This brief captures promising practices developed across the country in three areas and offers considerations for TANF programs to build on these changes.
This brief summarizes the experience and findings from the work of five local grantees in Colorado that launched innovations to build a qualified early childhood workforce in the state.
This brief describes the development of and lessons learned from an innovative strategy designed by the county’s Colorado Works team to address these transportation challenges and coach parents on planning and achieving their goals at the same time.
This practice brief focuses on the second phase of the process—Innovate—which is intended to help both researchers of human services programs and the professionals who administer programs to generate new and innovative ideas to address pressing challenges.
This brief describes the efforts of four TANF programs to implement three new interventions that are informed by evidence on self-regulation and designed to help participants reach their personal and job-related goals.
This practice brief provides an overview of the first phase of LI²—the Learn phase—which is intended to lay the foundation for successful and sustainable program changes.
This brief, developed as part of the GOAL-Oriented Adult Learning in Self-Sufficiency (GOALS) project, articulates a vision for TANF programs that is informed by the science about self-regulation and goal achievement.
Researchers and policymakers alike struggle to connect evidence to practice and improve programs.
Between June 2017 and April 2018, the Larimer County Works Program provided 282 “no strings attached” enrichment grants to children ages 12 to 18 whose parents had an active Works Program case.
Adams County (Colorado) Family Transition Services partnered with the Colorado Department of Human Services and Mathematica to design and implement an innovative outreach strategy to improve client engagement in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s individual and collective efforts in 2017 to improve the lives of low-income families and children by integrating research, policy, and practice on family self-sufficiency and stability.
This primer summarizes a more detailed practice brief on “road tests” (a component of the Improve stage of the larger Learn, Innovate, Improve process). It is part of a series of products designed to help program stakeholders understand and use LI² to improve human services programs.
This practice brief on road tests (a component of the Improve stage of the larger Learn, Innovate, Improve process) is part of a series of products designed to help program stakeholders understand and use LI² to improve human services programs.
This brief is the first in a series that seeks to advance welfare and family self-sufficiency research and practice through enhanced linkages between social science and human services programming.
This brief describes the experience of a group of county human service agencies in Colorado using an evidence-informed analytic process called “Learn, Innovate, Improve” to address the challenge of participant engagement in their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs.
This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s individual and collective efforts to improve the lives of low-income families and children by integrating research, policy, and practice on family self-sufficiency and stability.
This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s efforts to make meaningful contributions to the field in 2015.
This report describes in detail how researchers, policymakers, and program administrators can recognize opportunities for experiments and carry them out.
This report introduces human services program operators to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and provides guidance on how to conduct them.
The Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) tests variants of Social Security Disability Insurance program rules governing work and other supports.