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This web page depicts and explains another way of looking at the deaf/Deaf worlds that includes four levels: deaf people in isolation, the Deaf community, Deaf culture, and the Deaf Ethnicity.

This toolkit is designed to help interagency state teams identify and use federal resources to support career pathways and career pathway bridges for adults and out-of-school youth. In addition, the federal program summaries will aid regions and communities seeking to better understand federal resources that can support career pathway and career pathway bridge efforts at the regional or local level. The toolkit is divided into three sections: a funding options worksheet; federal program summaries; and an appendix on federal funding sources for support services.

Specifically, it describes: federal TANF grants and state funds under a "maintenance-of-effort" (MOE) requirement; how states may use federal TANF and state MOE funds to help achieve the purpose and goals of the TANF block grant; rules that apply to states when they use TANF or MOE funds to provide cash welfare to needy families with children; rules that apply to states when they use TANF or MOE funds for benefits and services other than cash welfare; certain accountability requirements that apply to states, including requirements that states submit plans and report data to the federal gove

The authors include recommendations for TANF reauthorization, including education and training for living wage employment, funding for childcare, and banning full family sanctions.

This site provides a summary of the TANF program over the past 15 years, and urges Congress to adopt specific recommendations for TANF reauthorization.

On February 22, 2012, President Obama signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (P.L. 112-96). This memorandum was written to inform States and Territories of the upcoming rulemaking process associated with the new TANF requirements outlined in P.L. 112-96.

After recognizing that TANF is serving a smaller share of poor families due to increased demands on the TANF program than ever before and fewer resources with which to meet them, this policy brief identifies what the two goals of TANF reauthorization should be - focus on alleviating poverty and preventing material hardship among children and families, and create effective pathways to economic opportunities. The brief then provides a summary of recommendations for achieving these goals.

This page provides guidance for those seeking interpreter services, including access to a searchable database of interpreter service agencies.

This paper contains information on the importance of housing stability for survivors of domestic violence, and lays the foundation for establishing effective systems to address housing and homeless issues.

This paper provides a historical context of domestic violence and homelessness and outlines how housing/homeless and domestic violence movements have and continue to intersect.