This report summarizes the design and implementation of LIFT, a coaching intervention in four cities that aims to help participants identify and attain goals related to self-sufficiency.
This Journal of Policy Analysis & Management article examines the effects of “intensive services” provided by the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs, two of the largest employment service programs in the United States.
This report summarizes the design and implementation of the Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) program.
This issue brief provides lessons learned from a convening that Mathematica and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted about using coaching and navigation to facilitate meaningful economic mobility.
This issue brief summarizes current knowledge about the features and effectiveness of coaching and navigation in facilitating economic mobility. The summary is based on lessons learned from a virtual convening hosted by Mathematica and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
This report describes the design of the Evaluation of Employment Coaching. It identifies the types of employment coaching interventions that are the focus of this evaluation and how coaching is expected to affect participants’ economic security.
This research brief is intended to inform program developers, providers, and policymakers about employment coaching and how it may improve employment outcomes.
MyGoals for Employment Success, designed by MDRC and partners, is an approach to employment coaching being piloted in Baltimore, MD and Houston, TX. The program assists clients with employment and career management; education and training; financial management; and personal and family well-being.
LIFT, a nonprofit organization, provides career and financial coaching to low-income parents and caregivers of young children. The coaches are student volunteers pursuing master’s degrees in social work. The program is being evaluated in New York, NY; Chicago, IL; and Los Angeles, CA.
Goal4 It!™, in Jefferson County, Colorado, is an employment coaching intervention designed by Mathematica and partners. The Colorado Works TANF program in Jefferson County is piloting Goal4 It!™ for work-eligible TANF recipients as an alternative to its current case management approach.
Iowa’s Family Development and Self-SufficiencyVisit disclaimer page (FaDSS) program provides TANF recipients coaching during home visits and is operated by local agencies throughout the state.
This publication presents study highlights from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This brief presents the impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents the 30-month impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It also provides the cost-benefit analysis results.
This report provides foundational information for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners interested in designing workforce development programs focused on self-regulation and goal attainment.
This report appendix presents details of the technical approach for estimating the impacts of the availability of intensive and training services funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents findings from a study of the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs’ impacts on employment and earnings.
The Adult and Dislocated Worker programs are two of the largest public workforce investment programs in the United States, so it is important to determine the effectiveness of the services they offer.
This report describes the implementation of the impact study of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
This paper for the Hamilton Project argues that Congress should increase funding for the Workforce Investment Act Adult program.
Teach For America (TFA) is an important but controversial source of teachers for hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty U.S. schools. We present findings from the first large-scale experimental study of secondary math teachers from TFA.
Recent studies from the Institute of Education Sciences evaluated teachers who entered teaching via two highly selective alternative routes—Teach For America and the Teaching Fellows programs— and less selective alternative routes that accept nearly all applicants.
Part of a volume examining WIA’s objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact.
This report provides impacts of BSF on couples about 15 months after they applied for the program. Early impacts show that, when results are averaged across the eight individual programs included in the evaluation, BSF did not achieve its primary objective of improving the stability and quality of the...
Summarizes the main findings from a series of other reports on the study. Concludes that centers deliver comprehensive and consistent services.