This research-to-practice brief describes findings from the special topic report (STR) about what workshop- and participant-level factors might predict greater participation in healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood (HMRF) primary workshops.
This brief shares lessons learned from Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) grantees about some of the strategies they used to partner with employers.
This brief shares grantee strategies and lessons learned through their systems integration and sustainability efforts
This brief shares how Mathematica’s technical assistance team supported Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) grantees in their operation of SWFI programs.
This brief shares several strategies that Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) grantees designed and implemented to identify and enroll participants and help address these challenges.
This brief shares lessons learned from Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) grantees about setting achievable performance goals and demonstrating progress toward those goals.
This brief highlights some of the strategies that Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SFWI) grantees developed to connect participants to child care and lessons learned that may be helpful to organizations implementing similar programs.
This brief presents some strategies that SWFI grantees implemented to provide trainings that met participants’ needs and to support them in achieving credentials.
This snapshot describes youth and young adults served by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes the services the youth received, and the changes they experienced from the beginning to the end of the...
This snapshot describes services provided by the 2015 cohort of Responsible Fatherhood grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes tools used to build clients’ relationship and parenting skills to support their economic well-being.
This snapshot describes adults served by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. It also describes services provided to clients’ to help build relationship and parenting skills.
This report focuses on implementation of WIOA’s changes to the Title I youth program, administered at the Federal level by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL).
This report focuses on implementation of key changes to the Title I Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under WIOA. Discussed here are the successes and challenges, promising practices, and possible areas for further technical assistance related to WIOA for these two programs.
This technical appendix provides information on key aspects of the study design and data collection, such as the research questions, topic areas explored, the conceptual framework, data sources, and types of respondents.
This snapshot describes client recruitment by the 2015 cohort of Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees as part of the Fatherhood and Marriage Local Evaluation & Cross-Site Project. To implement their programs, each grantee must find potential clients for whom its services would be appropriate,...
This brief describes the characteristics of adults who enrolled in 43 healthy marriage (HM) programs that were funded in 2015. This information is intended to increase the field’s understanding of who is interested in HM services.
This brief describes the characteristics of adults who enrolled in 40 responsible fatherhood programs that were funded in 2015.
This brief describes the staffing patterns for 45 healthy marriage and 40 responsible fatherhood programs that were funded in 2015.
This report describes the 2015 cohort of 85 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grantees, which were awarded five-year grants in September 2015.
Healthy families are good for children, but many families experience instability and parental absence. To support the long-term success of children and families, Congress has funded $150 million each year in healthy marriage (HM) and responsible fatherhood (RF) grants since 2005.
Findings suggest that a faculty preparation program that targets doctoral students and includes financial support, socialization to the faculty role, and formal education courses produces graduates who maintain a career in nursing education for up to three years after program completion.
This special topic report describes findings and recommendations from a case study in which Army veterans’ employment, earnings, and workforce participation data were linked to their military data to support analysis of the veterans’ post-separation employment and unemployment experiences.
In this report, Mathematica used qualitative methods to address research questions related to implementation, identify factors that shaped states’ implementation experiences, and draw lessons that the grantee states and others can use to inform future approaches.
This issue brief discusses how to use rapid-cycle evaluation to assess modest changes to re-employment programs that serve veterans and to quickly determine whether the changes truly enhance the programs.
Although changing demographics and shifts in health care delivery will increase the demand for registered nurses, baccalaureate nursing schools are not filling available seats.
This report describes the New Jersey Nursing Initiative design, evaluation findings, and key lessons learned, and it offers recommendations for improving program operations and evaluation.