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Welfare & Barriers to Employment |
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Health and Disabilities |
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A Comparison of Two Job Club Strategies
The Effects of Enhanced Versus Traditional Job Clubs in Los Angeles
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2008. David Navarro, Gilda Azurdia, and Gayle Hamilton.
This report, from the Employment Retention and Advancement Project, finds that unemployed welfare recipients in an enhanced job club had no better employment outcomes than participants in a traditional job club. At the end of the 18-month follow-up period, about half of both groups were employed.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Valuing Individual Success and Increasing Opportunities Now (VISION) Program in Salem, Oregon
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2008. Frieda Molina, Wan-Lae Cheng, and Richard Hendra.
A program to promote better initial job placements, employment retention, and advancement among unemployed applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program faced implementation challenges and had no employment-related impacts after one year of follow-up.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from Two Education and Training Models for Employed Welfare Recipients in Riverside, California
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2007. David Navarro, Stephen Freedman, and Gayle Hamilton.
Two education and training programs for employed, single-parent welfare recipients had small impacts on attendance in basic education or training overall but had larger impacts for disadvantaged groups. However, over two years, neither program increased employment and earnings levels overall or for any subgroup.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Impacts for Portland's Career Builders Program
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2008. Gilda Azurdia and Zakia Barnes.
A program in Portland, Oregon, to remove employment barriers and assist with job placement and employment retention and advancement for welfare applicants and recipients was never fully implemented and, not surprisingly, had no any effects on employment, earnings, or receipt of public assistance.
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Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Working Paper
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, Janine Zweig (Urban Institute), and Gilda Azurdia.
After one year, CEO’s transitional jobs program generated a large but short-lived increase in employment for ex-prisoners. A subgroup of recently released prisoners showed positive effects on recidivism: They were less likely to have their parole revoked, to be convicted of a felony, and to be reincarcerated than the control group.
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Four Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Employment
An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, JoAnn Hsueh, Sarah Rich, and Vanessa Martin.
This demonstration is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) Program in New York City
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cynthia Miller, and Gilda Azurdia.
A random assignment study of a welfare-to-work program for recipients with work-limiting medical and mental health conditions shows that participants had increased employment and decreased welfare payments.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Post-Assistance Self-Sufficiency (PASS) Program in Riverside, California
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2007. David Navarro, Mark van Dok, and Richard Hendra.
A random assignment evaluation of a voluntary postemployment program for workers who recently left welfare shows participants had increased employment and earnings during the first two years of follow-up.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from Minnesota's Tier 2 Program
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2007. Allen LeBlanc, Cynthia Miller, Karin Martinson, and Gilda Azurdia
An evaluation of a case management program for long-term welfare recipients shows little effect on participants’ involvement in program services or on their employment, earnings, or public assistance receipt during the first one-and-a-half years of follow-up.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Chicago ERA Site
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2006. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, and Jocelyn Page.
An evaluation of a retention and advancement program for recently employed welfare recipients shows modest increases in employment and large reductions in welfare receipt during the first two years of follow-up.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Texas ERA Site
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2006. Karin Martinson and Richard Hendra.
An evaluation of a job placement, retention, and advancement program for individuals receiving welfare showed some effects — but not consistent or large effects — on employment and retention outcomes during the first two years of follow-up.
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The Power of Work
The Center for Employment Opportunities
Comprehensive Prisoner Reentry Program
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2006. The Center for Employment Opportunities and MDRC.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) serves nearly 2,000 reentering prisoners a year with a structured program of pre-employment training, immediate short-term transitional work, and job placement services. This report, written jointly by CEO and MDRC, describes how the CEO program operates. Results from a random assignment evaluation by MDRC are expected next year.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the South Carolina ERA Site
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2005. Susan Scrivener, Gilda Azurdia, and Jocelyn Page.
An MDRC evaluation of Moving Up, a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and move up in the labor market, found that the program had little effect on employment rates, earnings, employment retention, or advancement.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Early Results from Four Sites
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2005. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Karin Martinson, and Susan Scrivener.
Early results are mixed for Employment Retention and Advancement project programs in four sites, but programs in two sites appear to help some welfare recipients work more steadily and advance to higher-paying jobs.
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Service Delivery and Institutional Linkages
Early Implementation Experiences of Employment Retention and Advancement Programs
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2003. Jacquelyn Anderson, Karin Martinson.
Describing the initial experiences of 15 Employment Retention and Advancement programs in 8 states, this report emphasizes implementation issues and focuses on connections among the agencies and institutions that deliver retention and advancement services to low-income workers and hard-to-employ populations.
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New Strategies to Promote Stable Employment and Career Progression
An Introduction to the Employment Retention and Advancement Project
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Dan Bloom, Jacquelyn Anderson, Melissa Wavelet, Karen N. Gardiner, Michael E. Fishman.
Welfare reform has resulted in millions of low-income parents replacing the receipt of public cash assistance with income from employment. But what strategies will help the new workforce entrants find more stable jobs, advance in the labor market, and achieve long-term self-sufficiency? The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) evaluation is a comprehensive effort to explore this urgent public policy question.
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The Impacts of Transitional Employment for Mentally Retarded Young Adults
Results of the STETS Demonstration
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1985. Stuart Kerachsky, Craig Thornton, Anne Bloomenthal, Rebecca Maynard, Susan Stephens.
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A Transitional Employment Strategy for the Mentally Retarded
The Final STETS Implementation Report
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1984. James A. Riccio with Marilyn L. Price.
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After Supported Work
Post-Program Interviews with a Sample of AFDC Welfare Participants
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1983. Martha Ritter, Sandra Danziger.
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Supported Work for the Mentally Retarded
Launching the STETS Demonstration
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1982. MDRC.
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The Supported Work Youth Variation
An Enriched Program for Young High School Drop-outs
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1981. Vicki Scharfman.
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The Supported Work Evaluation
Final Benefit-Cost Analysis
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1981. Peter Kemper, David Long, Craig Thornton with Robinson Hollister, Valerie Leach, Felicity Skidmore, Christine Whitebread, David Zimmerman.
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The Impact of Supported Work on Ex-Addicts
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1981. Katherine Dickinson, Rebecca Maynard with Randall Brown, Rosemary Gartner, Valerie Leach, Stan Masters, Liz Milor, Anne Mozer, Irving Piliavin, Jennifer Schore.
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The Impact of Supported Work on Long-Term Recipients of AFDC Benefits
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1981. Stanley Masters, Rebecca Maynard with Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore.
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The Impact of Supported Work on Ex-Offenders
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1981. Irving Piliavin, Rosemary Gartner with Valerie Leach, Rebecca Maynard, Randall Brown, Katherine Dickinson, Michael Dunham, Stan Masters, Joan Mattei, Anne Mozer, Tim Sayles, Jennifer Schore, Michael Sherman.
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The Impact of Supported Work on Young School Dropouts
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1980. Rebecca Maynard with Randall Brown, Anne Mozer, Irving Piliavin, jennifer Schore, Katherine Dickinson, Stanley Masters, Joan Mattei.
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Summary and Findings of the National Supported Work Demonstration
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1980. The MDRC Board of Directors.
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