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Reentry Projects Grant Evaluation: Serving Justice Involved Adults and Young Adults

2017-2024
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U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation Office

For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has invested in reentry services by committing substantial funding toward programs serving justice-involved young adults and adults, including the Reentry Project (RP) grants awarded between 2016 and 2019.

The aim of the RP grants is to improve employment and criminal justice outcomes for young adults and adults with prior justice involvement by providing employment services, case management, and other supportive services. The Department of Labor’s Chief Evaluation Office contracted with Mathematica and its partner Social Policy Research Associates to design and conduct an evaluation that will build evidence about effective strategies for helping people with justice involvement gain employment and avoid future justice system contact.

The study includes an impact evaluation to understand how the RP grant programs affect the employment and recidivism outcomes of participants and an implementation study to document program operations and identify promising practices grantees are using. The impact study will draw on administrative data on service receipt, employment, earnings, and justice-system involvement. The in-depth implementation study will include analysis of grant documents, virtual site visits, a grantee survey, and individual-level program data. Collectively, the Evaluation of the RP grant program will build evidence about effective strategies to serve people with prior justice involvement and facilitate their successful reentry into the community.

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