Resource Library

The Experiences, Needs, and Voices of Workers in Low-Income Households During COVID-19, and its accompanying brief, Facing Challenges and Showing Resilience: Reflections of Workers from Low-Income Households During COVID-19, summarize the experiences that 41 such workers shared during in-depth interviews.

Lessons learned from four employment coaching programs that made major changes to their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Read OPRE's "The Role of Positive Organizational Culture in a Pandemic Response: Lessons from Five TANF Programs" to learn more about how programs adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, HPOG 2.0 programs (which train participants for in-demand healthcare jobs) adapted their procedures to continue activities while protecting their staff, students, and partners.

Explore this OPRE-sponsored report that provides a national picture of Head Start classrooms and programs in spring 2020.

Explore this OPRE-sponsored brief that uses nationally representative data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey to understand whether teacher reports of children’s early learning skills can be used when in-person assessment is not feasible, such as in spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This brief from Project SPARK highlights how TANF program leaders might apply the strategies used during the pandemic to address persistent stress and trauma and support wellbeing among staff and participants beyond the end of the public health emergency.

This report provides information about the FACES study, including the background, design, methodology, assessments, and analytic methods; detailed descriptive statistics (averages, response ranges, and percentages) and standard errors (the estimate of the standard deviation of each statistic); and information about the changes in planned data collection in spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provides tables containing key Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policies for each state as of July 2020, as well as longitudinal tables describing various state policies for selected years between 1996 and 2020.

A companion to the 2020 Welfare Rules Databook and provides a graphical overview of some of the TANF policy differences across states.