DHHS, Administration for Children and Families

The Program Design Manual is the one of a series of products developed by The Lewin Group, under contract to the Administration for Children and Families, to assist states to design program strategies for promoting the employment retention and advancement of TANF recipients. The manual provides states with a step-by-step process for thinking through goals, target populations, and strategies they might include in their program plans. The manual also provides helpful guidance with regard to issues related to the evaluation of these programs. ACF has a major initiative underway to identify sites for an experimental evaluation of employment retention and advancement programs. States interested in participating in that evaluation will find the manual helpful in thinking through their plans. States who are not interested in the evaluation but are planning initiatives in this area should find the manual helpful in thinking through their design options as well.

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