Evaluation Of The First Round Of Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) (2013-2016)
The Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program was created to provide education and training to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other low-income individuals for occupations in the healthcare field that pay well and are expected to either experience labor shortages or be in high demand. HPOG programs are expected to target skills and competencies demanded by the healthcare industry; support career pathways; result in an employer- or industry-recognized certificate or degree; combine supportive services with education and training services to help participants overcome barriers to employment; and provide services at times and locations that are easily accessible to targeted populations.
In 2010, ACF awarded the first round of HPOG awards (HPOG 1.0) to 32 organizations located across 20 states to carry out five-year programs in their areas. Five awards were made to tribal organizations. HPOG is authorized as a demonstration program with a mandated federal evaluation. As part of its multi-pronged evaluation strategy to document the operations and assess the success of the HPOG program, data collected for the HPOG National Implementation Evaluation and the HPOG Impact Study was archived in Fall 2019. The evaluation strategy aims to provide information on program implementation, systems change, outcomes, and impacts.
A restricted use data file is available through the Child and Family Data Archive: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/archives/cfda/studies/....
The federal point of contact is Nicole Constance.
For more information on the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/evaluation-portfolio-fo....
Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Project (2011-2016)
The Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) project was designed to produce rigorous evidence for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about the effectiveness of nine career pathways approaches that sought to increase credentials, employment, and self-sufficiency among low-income, low-skilled Americans. Each program-specific evaluation included an implementation study that examined the design and operation of the program and enrolled students' participation patterns, and an impact study that used an experimental design to measure differences in educational and employment outcomes between individuals randomly assigned to a group that could receive services from the PACE program (treatment group) and a group that could not but could participate in other services in the community (control group). Program impacts were measured 18 to 24 months following random assignment, depending on the program. Follow-up impact reports will cover three and six years after random assignment. PACE was led by Abt Associates, in partnership with MEF Associates, The Urban Institute, and the University of Michigan. OPRE is continuing to follow-up with PACE study participants over a longer-term follow-up period.
A restricted use data file is available through the Child and Family Data Archive: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/archives/cfda/studies/....
The federal point of contact is Nicole Constance.
For more information on the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/pathways-for-advancing-....
Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency Project (2014-2016)
This dataset includes administrative data and experimental data related to 5 sites in the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency Project.
A restricted access file is available at ICPSR, at https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/100389/version/V1/view
The federal point of contact is Emily Schmitt.
For more information on the project, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/behavioral-intervention...
Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project (2004-2008)
Philadelphia, PA
The purpose of this study was to build a knowledge base about special models that target welfare recipients who face serious barriers to employment. The study in Philadelphia tested two employment strategies. The first employment strategy, administered by the Transitional Work Corporation (TWC), was a paid transitional employment program that combined temporary, subsidized employment with work-related assistance. The second employment strategy, the Success Through Employment Preparation (STEP) program, focused on assessing and treating employment barriers before participants obtained a job.
This dataset was part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project. The data are available at ICPSR: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33784
The federal point of contact is Girley Wright.
For a description of the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/enhanced-services-for-t....
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), New York City
The purpose of this study was to build a knowledge base about special models that target welfare recipients who face serious barriers to employment. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) in New York City, which is an employment program for formerly incarcerated individuals. The CEO evaluation aimed to determine whether CEO's transitional jobs and other services are more effective than basic job search assistance. The study this dataset is a part of is called the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project.
A public use data file is available at ICPSR, at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33783.
The federal point of contact is Girley Wright.
For more information on the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/enhanced-services-for-t....
Working toward Wellness, Rhode Island
This dataset is part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project. The purpose of this study was to build a knowledge base about special models that target welfare recipients who face serious barriers to employment. This study analyzed the effectiveness of the Rhode Island "Working toward Wellness" (WtW) program, a one-year program that provided telephonic care management to depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island.
A public use dataset is available at ICPSR, at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33782/summary
The federal point of contact is Girley Wright.
For more information on the project, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/enhanced-services-for-t...
Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project (2000-2007)
The goal of Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) was to identify and rigorously test a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among current or former welfare recipients or other low-income groups. As part of ERA, over a dozen different program models were evaluated using random assignment research designs.
The federal point of contact for this project is Mark Fucello.
The survey and administrative data are available at ICPSR: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/33181/summary
For a description of the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/employment-retention-an...
National Evaluation of Welfare-to Work Strategies (2005)
NEWWS was a study of the effectiveness of eleven mandatory welfare-to-work programs in seven locales: Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Portland, Oregon; and Riverside, California. Program impacts were evaluated by comparing outcomes for a randomly assigned experimental group subject to program requirements with outcomes for control groups.
This dataset was part of the The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS) study. The data are available at the National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center
https://aspe.hhs.gov/national-evaluation-welfare-work-strategies-newws
The federal point of contact for this project is Mark Fucello.
For a description of the project, see: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/the-national-evaluation-of-welf...