Welcome to the launch of the Office of Family Assistance’s *READIE (“Ready”) for Life Entrance Conference for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood and the Tribal TANF Child-Welfare December 1-3, 2015 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. To view the official invitation, click here.

We anticipate a robust agenda that fosters energetic, thoughtful, and engaging interaction between you and your colleagues.

* READIE (“Ready”) for Life represents six critical elements essential to healthy child and family well-being and effective program implementation for HMRF and TT-CW programs:

• Relationships (healthy parent-child, couples, inter-personal and intimate partner, and caring adult relationships through marriage and relationship education)

• Employment (job skills, training, placement, subsidized and unsubsidized employment)

• Advancement (employment, career pathways, economic mobility)

• Development (emotional, physical, and social)

• Implementation (program integrity, continuous quality improvement)

• Evaluation (effective performance measurement, local and federal evaluation for success)