This Project Page is available on the Internet:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/HtE/index.htm
In the post-welfare reform world, an important policy question has taken new prominence: how to improve employment prospects for the many Americans who face serious obstacles to steady work. These individuals, including long-term welfare recipients, people with disabilities, those with health or behavioral health problems, and former prisoners, often become trapped in costly public assistance and enforcement systems and find themselves living in poverty, outside the mainstream in a society that prizes work and self-sufficiency.
The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ (HtE) Demonstration and Evaluation Project, sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with additional funding from the Department of Labor (DOL), is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment. This longitudinal, multi-site study is one of the few rigorous random assignment evaluations being conducted pertaining to the HtE. Four innovative programs are being evaluated:
MDRC, in partnership with the Urban Institute, the Lewin Group, Group Health Cooperative, and United Behavioral Health, is leading the evaluation of these four programs. Over the next several years, the HtE project will generate data on the implementation, impacts, and costs of these promising approaches. The study period is from 2001-2011 and the contract number is HHS-233-01-0012.
The following reports are currently available; others will be posted here as they are completed:
To obtain a printed copy of any report, send the title and your mailing information to:
Human Services Policy, Room 404EFax: (202) 690-6562
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Last updated: 04/07/2008