Project Overview

Objective

To assess HireAbility’s success at connecting VCAP participants with training opportunities and employment, as well as systems change efforts within and outside the agency.

Project Motivation

Understanding VCAP’s implementation, providing evidence to improve the project’s implementation, and assessing participant, agency, and system outcomes.

Prepared For

HireAbility Vermont

Mathematica is evaluating the five-year Vermont Career Advancement Project (VCAP), which helps people with disabilities find career pathways so that they can secure high-wage, high-quality jobs in fields that interest them.
VCAP will train people with disabilities for high-quality career pathways by connecting them with programs and educational opportunities that result in a credential, postsecondary degree, or higher-paid job. HireAbility Vermont—Vermont’s state agency that helps Vermonters with disabilities prepare for, obtain, and maintain meaningful careers—designed VCAP to address barriers to employment and promote high-wage employment equity for people with disabilities. VCAP participants work with their Career Pathway Navigator to set a goal they can achieve or work toward by enrolling in occupational training, postsecondary education, pre-apprenticeships, or apprenticeships that lead to a credential.

Related Staff

Yonatan  Ben-Shalom

Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Principal Researcher

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Emily Harrison

Emily Harrison

Researcher

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Isabel Musse

Isabel Musse

Researcher

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