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This brief discusses 19 interventions identified by the Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review that featured work-readiness services as their primary employment or training strategy. The brief describes these work-readiness interventions and their impact on employment and earnings. It goes on to profile six promising work-readiness interventions...

This brief, developed for organizations implementing healthy relationship programming, provides a summary of research/theory on how healthy relationship program participation could affect intimate partner violence and teen dating violence. Specifically, the brief describes how those effects might occur, and how they might differ for different groups of adults and youth...

This paper summarizes research on the prevalence and experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) among the target populations for adult healthy relationship programs. The purpose is to provide practitioners with information on their program populations to support their efforts in addressing program participants’ experiences with IPV.

This literature review is one of several components of the Measurement Development: Quality of Caregiver-Child...

The Federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is a primary source of assistance helping low-income parents pay…

This research brief summarizes what we know about the connections between TANF and other large safety net programs…

After creation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) in 1996, millions of single mothers…

Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is known about how to help them…

The federal welfare overhaul of 1996 ushered in myriad policy changes aimed at getting low-income parents off public..

Although many public assistance recipients suffer from depression, few receive consistent treatment...