WtW National Conference Materials - Welfare to Work Vouchers

National Conference, February 23-24, 2000

The National Conference was held on Wednesday and Thursday, February 23-24, 2000 at the Omni Shorham in Washington, D.C. This page provides a selection of tools and resources distributed at that conference.

The WtW National Conference materials are divided into three groups: conference binder materials, speaker handouts, and other resources. Materials are listed in the order that they appear in the binder.

I. National Conference Binder

Final Agenda (Adobe PDF, 3 pages)

Session 1: The Basics

	Welfare to Work at HUD
	HUD's Workforce Development Initiatives (Adobe PDF, 7 pages)
	*Fact Sheet: Making Welfare Reform Work: Tips for Public Housing Agencies (Adobe PDF, 5 pages)
	*Fact Sheet: The Welfare to Work Section 8 Tenant Based Assistance Program
	*Fact Sheet: The Family Self-Sufficiency Program
	*Fact Sheet: Tips for PHAs Fact Sheet on ROSS Program (not in conference binder, but handed out by Pat Arnaudo)

*To receive copies of any fact sheet, please contact the PIH Clearinghouse directly at (800) 955-2232 or pihirc@deval.us. If sending an e-mail request, please include the title(s) of the fact sheets you would like to receive, your name, your mailing address, and your telephone number.

Session 2: Families: Outreach, Selection, Continued Participation

Families: Outreach, Selection, and Continued Participation text (Adobe PDF, 7 pages)

Session 3: Landlord Outreach and Housing Search Assistance Session

	Welfare to Work Vouchers: Landlord Outreach and Housing Search (Adobe PDF, 20 slides)
	Handouts from Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (Adobe PDF, 4 pages)
	Faith-Based Organization Handout (Adobe PDF, 5 pages)
	Excerpts from HUD's "Learning from Each Other." (Adobe PDF, 5 pages)

Session 4: Supportive Services and Case Management

	Leveraging Resources for Supportive Services and Case Management (Adobe PDF, 18 pages)
	Making the Shoe Fit Article (Adobe PDF, 86 pages)

Session 5: Program Implementation

	Implementation Workplan (Adobe PDF, 12 pages)
	Focus on Implementation (Adobe PDF, 6 slides)

Session 6: Monitoring

	Monitoring Progress (Adobe PDF, 21 slides)
	Monitoring Progress data sources (Adobe PDF, 10 pages)
	Sample monitoring charts (Adobe PDF, 1 page)
	MTCS (Adobe PDF, 20 pages)
	Family Report Form (Adobe PDF, 34 pages)

Supplemental Resources

	NOFA
	Excerpt from the Appropriations Act
	Excerpts from the Merger Rule
	Hotline and Web site information (Adobe PDF, 1 page)
	Useful WtW Web links
	Sample Waiver request for section 8 WtW voucher program (Adobe PDF, 1 page)
	Appendix B: List of regional WtW coordinators at the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services (Adobe PDF, 2 pages)
	Center on Budget and policy priorities, listserve on affordable housing and welfare reform (Adobe PDF, 3 pages)
	Information on the Earned Income Tax credit (Adobe PDF, 3 pages)

II. Speaker Handouts and Materials

	"Focus on Jobs" slide presentation (Adobe PDF, 24 slides)
	Handouts from Xerox Corporation: Employee Performance Assessment Form, WtW Self-Evaluation Form, and Xerox Hiring Requirements (Adobe PDF, 6 pages)
	"Focus on Jobs for WtW recipients" -- Xerox Corporation Slide presentation (Adobe PDF, 9 slides)
	Instructions on How to Make Adjustments to Financial Documents Related to WtW Program (Adobe PDF, 1 page)
	Pathways to Independence Facts and other information sheets from the Marriott jobs program (Adobe PDF, 2 pages)
	Welfare, Employment, and Self-Sufficiency: What Have We Learned? David Long presentation. (Adobe PDF, 3 pages)

III. Other Resources

	HUD Form 52681: Year-End Settlement Statement
	HUD Form 52672: Supporting Data for Annual Contributions Estimates
	HUD Form 52673: Estimate of Total Required Annual Contributions
	Outline of How Federal Housing Programs Can Help Provide Employment and Training Opportunities and Support Services to Current and Former Welfare Recipients
	Helping Families Achieve Self-Sufficiency: A Guide on Funding Services for Children and Families through the TANF Program. Contact DHHS for more information.
	From Welfare to Work: Using HUD's Programs to Help Families in Transition
	Learning from Each Other, HUD best practices publication. Only hard copies of this publication are available. Contact HUD for more information.
	Getting from Here to There: The Bridges to Work Demonstration: First Report to the Field by Beth Z. Palubinsky and Bernardine H. Watson. (Spring 1997, 7 pages). Available for $2.00 by sending a check or money order to Public/Private Ventures, Communications Department, 2005 Market Street, Suite 900, Philadelphia, PA 19103. View their order form and other available publications at http://www.ppv.org/indexfiles/pubsindex.html.