The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network offers services to State and County social service agencies implementing the TANF program including:

• Peer-to-peer roundtables
• Site visits
• Workshops
• Moderated teleconferences

Why should you seek Welfare Peer Technical Assistance?
Seeking Technical Assistance will expose you to innovative strategies and programs for effectively serving TANF participants. Prior technical assitance events have helped State and County welfare services identify effective practices for providing services, implement interagency service coordination, build linkages within and across State agencies, and address other welfare-related topics.

Written reports of all Technical Assistance interventions are posted on our Welfare Resources page. You may wish to access these summaries to see lessons learned from past events.

What happens after you submit a TA Request?
TA requests are jointly reviewed by the Welfare Peer TA Network and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) based on the following criteria:

• The extent to which the TA requested is likely to move TANF recipients from welfare to work, self-sufficiency, and family stability.
• The degree to which the area of requested TA is related to ACF priorities:
• Provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their own homes, or in the homes of relatives;
• End of the dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage;
• Prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual, numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies, and;
• Encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.
• The level of urgency of the requested TA.
• The degree to which the requested TA methods foster information exchange among States, counties, and communities.
• The extent to which the TA requested may have value for other States or programs.
• The cost-effectiveness of the requested TA.

Once your TA Request is received, you will be contacted by the Welfare Peer TA Network within three business days to discuss next steps.