Resource Library

Discover strategies that individual staff members providing employment services and TANF program leaders can adopt and implement to combat biases at an organizational and individual level when working with participants.

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings from select child support literature and highlight remaining knowledge gaps. The information in this brief may be useful to researchers and practitioners who are interested in the evidence base for child support services and addressing open questions to support evidence-informed practice.

Explore OPRE’s Understanding Key Concepts of Economic Empowerment for People Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking for definitions of key concepts related to this topic. These definitions were generated by people with lived experience of human trafficking and practitioners who provide economic empowerment services to people who have experienced human trafficking.

This brief shares promising strategies and lessons learned that human services agency leaders and staff might adopt to help program participants use and strengthen self-regulation skills

The Administration and Congress have signaled interest in promoting and measuring employment outcomes in federal programs supporting low-income people. This report offers information and insights to help policymakers and stakeholders understand the challenges of and opportunities for measuring employment outcomes...

The goal of the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project was to learn how tools from behavioral science could be used to deliver human services more efficiently and effectively to low-income children, adults, and families. BIAS conducted 15 randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions across eight sites....

The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency project conducted randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions at four child support agencies—in Texas, Washington, and two Ohio counties...

The Homeless Families Research Briefs project, conducted by Abt Associates, is producing a series of research briefs on issues related to the well-being and economic self-sufficiency of families and children experiencing homelessness. Using data collected from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Family Options Study, these briefs build on the data and analysis already being conducted for HUD to answer additional questions of interest to HHS.

This research snapshot describes the experiences of a group of 381 Hispanic families after experiencing homelessness...

This brief explores child and partner separations among families experiencing homelessness.

Additionally, the brief examines...