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The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data Collaborative Pilot Initiative is a component of the TANF Data Innovation project. The 30-month pilot offered technical assistance and training to support cross-disciplinary teams of staff at eight state and county TANF programs in the routine use of TANF and other administrative data to inform policy and practice.

Included in this collection are eight profiles summarizing the data analytics projects undertaken by participating agencies.

Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies can use research to inform policy and operational decisions. This webinar explains how to contract out for research services to answer policy questions.

Understanding the relationships of unmarried adult couples is central to understanding contemporary family life in the United States. As a growing share of adults in the United States are postponing or foregoing marriage, marriage rates have declined and the percentage of adults in unmarried and cohabiting relationships has increased. Unmarried relationships can range from fragile on-again, off-again relationships to highly committed relationships that resemble marriage. This report examines survey data collected from a diverse sample of 356 unmarried adults about their breakups with a romantic partner.

Summarize findings from OPRE’s HPOG 2.0 Systems Study to identify the extent to which systems activities, as implemented by HPOG program operators and their partners, may have influenced the local system.

Post adoption and guardianship instability, when children who have exited foster care to adoption and guardianship no longer live with their adoptive parent or legal guardian, occurs between 5% and 20% of the time. The Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability Tracking Toolkit is designed to help child welfare agencies develop a systematic way to track instability for children who exit foster care through adoption or guardianship.

The findings described in this report represent some of the first available evidence on how individuals who previously received welfare fared in the labor market over the long term and on how sequence and cluster analyses can provide a richer picture of their trajectories and program impacts.

Discover a webinar that presents the initial findings from the first nationally representative study of Region XI Head Start programs run by tribal communities.

Explore OPRE's Sexual Risk Cessation (SRC) Tip Sheet for Practitioners to learn what a program model is, how one can be used, and some examples of how to use a program model in the context of a specific youth program.

Federal agencies often have experience with building and using evidence to design, manage, and improve their work on behalf of the public. All agencies, regardless of their experience level, can benefit from assessing their capacity to build and apply evidence in their work. The brief presents a snapshot of an evidence capacity framework that draws on research literature supplemented with interviews and focus groups with federal staff.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data Innovation project and the TANF Data Collaborative (TDC) Pilot were established to expand the routine use, integration, and analysis of TANF and employment data by agency staff to improve program services and outcomes for families with low incomes. The 30-month TDC Pilot offered technical assistance and training to support cross-disciplinary teams of staff at eight state and county TANF programs.