Expediting the Launch of Service Provision
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Expediting the Launch of Service Provision

Issue Brief: Early Lessons from LEAP
Published: Nov 02, 2016
Publisher: Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates
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Associated Project

Connecting Inmates to Public Workforce Services Prior to Release: The Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release Grants

Time frame: 2015-2018

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Labor

Authors

Anne Paprocki

Key Findings

Key Findings:

  • Jail-based American Job Centers (AJCs) that began serving participants early on in the planning period were able to leverage existing staff, curricula, knowledge, and partner experience to roll out services quickly.
  • Using the proposal and early planning phases of the grant to solidify the service structure and key relationships helped to expedite the launch of jail-based AJC services.
Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) grantees were permitted to spend the first 9 months of the 24-month project period on planning and start-up activities before enrolling participants into their jail-based American Job Centers (AJCs). This brief uses data from site visits to 8 of the 20 Linking to Employment Activities Pre-release (LEAP) sites to explore the factors that enabled them to complete these activities more quickly than the time allotted. While an expedited launch does not necessarily imply that a grantee will have stronger overall performance, an analysis of grantees that began enrollment quickly provides insight into the conditions present and the strategies used to achieve faster, and perhaps more efficient, implementation.

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