Assessment/Screening – Building Better Programs

Conducting In-Depth Assessments

Ife Floyd — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:41:54 +0000

Assessment often is the first step in helping TANF recipients living with a disability find and maintain employment. While some TANF recipients living with a disability enter TANF fully aware of their disability, many do not. There are multiple strategies that TANF agencies can employ to identify recipients whose program participation or employment difficulties may be influenced by the presence of a disability or to develop an appropriate employment plan once a disability is identified. In this practice brief, drawing on the experiences of six different TANF initiatives targeted to recipients living with a disability, we describe five different approaches to assessment: disability screening, psychosocial assessments, clinical and psychological assessments, functional needs assessments and vocational assessments.

Mathematica Policy Research – Conducting In-Depth Assessments

Assessing and Serving TANF Recipients with Disabilities

Ife Floyd — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:35:11 +0000

A significant number of TANF clients have a disability of some type that may impact their service needs. But assessing clients’ needs can prove difficult for TANF programs and staff. This practice brief describes different assessment strategies used by local agencies and organizations participating in the TANF/SSI Disability Transition Project, discusses strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to assessment, and offers some points for program administrators and practitioners to consider in choosing methods of assessment.

OPRE brief – Assessing and Serving TANF Recipients with Disabilities

Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work

Ife Floyd — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:53:52 +0000

This report was written a few years after TANF was created. It does not provide specific recommendations on how to conduct an assessment but rather walks program administrators through a series of questions to help guide them in the development and use of assessment in work programs that serve individuals with a diversity of needs.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation – Screening and Assessment in TANF/Welfare-to-Work: Ten Important Questions TANF Agencies and Their Partners Should Consider

Kentucky’s Targeted Assessment Program

Ife Floyd — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:09:56 +0000

Kentucky’s Targeted Assessment Program is an innovative model for assisting low-income women by placing human services professionals in public assistance and child welfare offices to provide support services and promote integrated service delivery. Through a participant-centered, strengths-based approach, TAP identifies and focuses on decreasing and eliminating individual participant and broad systemic barriers to self-sufficiency using comprehensive assessment, pretreatment services, motivational interviewing, intensive case management, service coordination, and persistent follow-up services. At every level, TAP initiates collaboration and sharing of expertise.

Helping Low-Income Mothers Overcome Multiple Barriers to Self-Sufficiency: Strategies and Implications for Human Services Professionals
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University of Kentucky Targeted Assessment Program Summary

Kentucky’s Targeted Assessment Program Presentation