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Coaching-based interventions have shown promise in a range of settings to help people identify and develop self-regulation skills needed to set and make progress toward goals. Building on a growing body of evidence, the Administration for Children and…

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a key component in supporting self-sufficiency among families, including those experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children…

Millions of U.S. children receive free or reduced-price lunches each school day, but that number drops greatly during summer. In 2014, summer nutrition programs reached only about 16 percent of the children who received food assistance during the year…

Abt Global completed an evaluation of an important New York State welfare reform initiative involving child support enforcement, the Child Assistance Program (CAP).  Unlike many other welfare reform efforts that emphasize mandatory behavioral…

The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tested the use of a Pay for Success (PFS) approach for funding and evaluating employment services. Under the PFS model, private and philanthropic investors cover the up-front costs of delivering an intervention. Then…

Rhode Island’s Preschool Development Grant – Birth through Age Five (PDG) grant is being used to implement a plan to ensure all children from birth through age 5 (B-5) are supported by services and programs that will prepare them for lifelong success. To…

The Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) pilots have operated since 2011 to provide grocery assistance to households with eligible children during summer months when millions of U.S. children lose access to free or reduced-price school lunches. Abt…

The Team Nutrition Training Grant E-STAR Evaluation is a 4.5-year study that addresses Food and Nutrition Service’s need to understand the implementation of the Enhanced Strategies, Training, Action Plans, and Resources (E-STAR) Team Nutrition Training…

Extreme weather events and natural disasters are impacting communities across the United States, and Americans are already feeling its effects. While environmental hazards have devastating effects on all communities, low- and moderate-income communities, including…