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Happy New Year from RECS!
Happy New Year! RECS 2022 will take place June 1-3, 2022. Additional details about the conference format will be shared soon.
The wellness of our speakers, participants, and staff is our highest priority. We will continue to monitor the situation related to COVID-19 and share any updates on the RECS website and via email and social media.
Registration for the conference, which is free and open to the public, will open in spring 2022.
RECS 2022 Call for Proposals
We received many high-quality submissions on a variety of topics related to family self-sufficiency. Submissions are currently under review, and notifications will be sent to all submitters in March 2022. We look forward to sharing the conference agenda in spring 2022.
OPRE News
In 2021 OPRE continued our work building evidence to improve the lives of children and families. Learn more in our 2021 end of year video message.
Exploring TANF Programs' Innovative Changes to Service Delivery During COVID-19
This brief captures promising changes to service delivery practices developed by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs across the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights innovations including strategies to (1) administer and deliver program services virtually, (2) increase access to and use of technology among participants and staff, and (3) promote meaningful participant engagement and accountability.
Using Video Recordings to Evaluate Employment Coaching
This brief from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations project discusses the use of video recordings of interactions between program staff and participants as a data source. It describes the process for video recording coaching sessions, the analysis of data, and examples of what was learned, concluding with lessons learned for researchers considering using video recordings as a data source in future studies.
Understanding the Design and Implementation of the LIFT Program
This brief from the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations project discusses the design and implementation of the LIFT intervention. LIFT is a non-profit organization operating in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. that uses a coaching approach to help parents and caregivers of young children create plans to attain short- and long-term goals related to three pillars of self-sufficiency (financial security, educational attainment, and career advancement).
As we begin 2022, we are pleased to share some of the new projects we funded in 2021. We began new work in areas such as participatory research methods and extended our work on data governance practices. We launched new grant programs such as our African American Child and Family Research Center and awarded twenty Family Self-Sufficiency Demonstration Development Grants. New projects reflect our ongoing commitment to supporting rigorous and relevant research in areas including child care, child welfare, Head Start, healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, home visiting, TANF, youth services, and more, while we continue our focus on incorporating a race equity lens into all of our work and strengthening and supporting the ACF Research and Evaluation Agenda. Read the latest OPRE Insights blog post to learn about some of the new projects OPRE funded in 2021 and click through to the new project pages on our website to learn more.
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Questions?
Please direct questions about conference content to Lauren Deutsch (Lauren.Deutsch@acf.hhs.gov) or Marie Lawrence (Catherinemarie.Lawrence@acf.hhs.gov). Please direct all other questions to RECS@air.org.
