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Colorado Department of Human Services  \n★ The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is intended to help children and families living in poverty improve their well-being and economic standing.  \n★ Currently, very little detail is comprehensively tracked or provided about how Colorado uses a large portion of its TANF funds and whether the resources are successfully supporting children and families.  \n★ State and federal leaders are calling for the modernization of the TANF program and are-commitment to efficient and effective uses of funds.  \n★ Colorado’s policymakers can redesign the TANF program so that it more effectively supports families by:  \n• Exclusively investing in research-based strategies like cash assistance, child care, and effective types of education and training supports.  \n• Establishing and requiring progress toward holistic, family-centered outcome measures to ensure strategies are effectively supporting families and children.  \n[coloradokids.org](coloradokids.org) 1  \nRESEARCH BRIEF  \nOctober 2025  \nThe Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program supports children who are living in poverty. But nearly three decades after its creation, Colorado’s TANF program, known as Colorado Works, needs strategic reforms to ensure the sustainability of the program and transform TANF into a more e􀀞ective support for child well-being and family economic mobility.  \nThe TANF program was created in 1996 to promote family safety, stability, and self-su ciency. Because TANF is a block grant to states from the federal government, states have some 􀀝exibilityin how they use funds as long as they remain within the bounds of TANF’s stated purposes. This allows states to pursue innovative strategies, but it also means that TANF dollars have not always been used e􀀞ectively to promote meaningful outcomes for kids and families.  \nFor the past several years, national and state organizations, advocates, and policymakers have called for the modernization of TANF, which has used largely the same approach to distributing resources since 1996.1 In Colorado, recent policy changes have started moving the TANF program toward a more child-and family-centered approach.  \nBut to maximize the TANF program’s potential to create lasting positive outcomes for children and families, Colorado’s policymakers should take steps to:  \n1 Invest TANF dollars solely in research-based strategies that promote child well-being and long-term family economic security, including cash assistance, child care, and certain types of education and training supports.  \n2 Establish and require progress toward holistic, family-centered outcome measures to ensure the effectiveness of investments.  \nCurrent Limitations of  \nColorado’s TANF Program ~~ ~~  \nColorado has made signi􀀜cant improvements for families in the TANF program in recent years, including improving cash assistance, reducing punitive sanctions, and helping families increase their income while smoothing their o􀀞-ramp from the program. However, the TANF program in Colorado currently does not have a comprehensive, data-driven approach to investing in evidence-based strategies that reliably advance meaningful outcomes for families.  \nColorado operates a county-administered TANF program with limited state oversight. While many counties do invest TANF dollars in research-supported services, Colorado has not had standardized, detailed information on how counties are spending TANF dollars or standardized outcome measures to determine the e","cbCaidupe9scsPFH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidupe9scsPFH","pdf",439190,"English","# Key Findings\n# Background and Purpose\n# Current Limitations of Colorado’s TANF Program\n# Proposed Reform Priorities\n## Research-Based Strategies for TANF\n## Examples of TANF Supports and Outcome Measures\n# Policy Outlook and Federal Changes","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of modernizing TANF in Colorado?\",\"answer\":\"To reform Colorado Works so TANF becomes a more effective, sustainable support for child well-being and long-term family economic mobility.\"},{\"question\":\"What limitation does the brief identify in Colorado’s current TANF approach?\",\"answer\":\"Colorado lacks a comprehensive, data-driven method for investing in evidence-based strategies, including standardized county spending information and standardized outcome measures.\"},{\"question\":\"What steps does the brief recommend for using TANF funds more effectively?\",\"answer\":\"Invest TANF dollars exclusively in research-based supports and require progress toward holistic, family-centered outcome measures to ensure strategies drive meaningful results for children and families.\"}]","Research Brief - October 2025 - Essential, Research-Based Strategies to Modernize TANF in Colorado | PDF",1792050167]