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More Than a Job
Final Results from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Transitional Jobs Program
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2012. Cindy Redcross, Megan Millenky, Timothy Rudd, and Valerie Levshin.
Ex-prisoners who had access to CEO’s transitional jobs program were less likely to be convicted of a crime and reincarcerated. The effects were particularly large for those ex-prisoners who enrolled in the program shortly after release. The recidivism reductions mean that the program is cost-effective — generating more in savings than it cost.
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Alternative Employment Strategies for Hard-to-Employ TANF Recipients
Final Results from a Test of Transitional Jobs and Preemployment Services in Philadelphia
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2011. Erin Jacobs and Dan Bloom.
An evaluation of two different welfare-to-work strategies for long-term welfare recipients finds that: (1) transitional jobs substantially increased employment in the short term, but these effects faded after one year, and (2) it is difficult to engage welfare recipients in extensive preemployment services long enough to improve their employability.
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Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment
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2011. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.
A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression while the program was running, but it did not help individuals sustain treatment after the intervention ended. The program did not reduce depression on average, nor did it have any effect on employment outcomes.
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Supporting Healthy Marriage Toolkit
Resources for Program Operators from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Demonstration and Evaluation
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2011. MDRC.
Developed for sites participating in a federal demonstration and evaluation of relationship and marriage skills programs for low-income married couples, this toolkit offers practical guidance about program design, management, and marketing, among other topics. It may be particularly useful for voluntary programs focusing on family relationships, couples, or fatherhood.
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A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services
Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2011. JoAnn Hsueh, Erin Jacobs, and Mary Farrell.
The report offers implementation and early impact findings from a random assignment evaluation of two Early Head Start programs that were enhanced with formalized services to proactively address parents’ employment, educational, and self-sufficiency needs.
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Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Eighteen Months After Random Assignment
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2010. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.
A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression, although that effect faded over time. The program did not reduce depression on average, but it did reduce the number of people who suffered from very severe depression.
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Recidivism Effects of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Program Vary by Former Prisoners’ Risk of Reoffending
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2010. Janine Zweig, Jennifer Yahner, and Cindy Redcross.
CEO, a transitional jobs program for former prisoners in New York City, had its strongest effects for participants who were at highest risk of recidivism, for whom CEO reduced the probability of rearrest, the number of rearrests, and the probability of reconviction two years after entering the program.
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The Supporting Healthy Marriage Evaluation
Early Lessons from the Implementation of a Relationship and Marriage Skills Program for Low-Income Married Couples
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2010. Jennifer Miller Gaubert, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Christopher Dalton, Kate Fletcher, and Meghan McCormick.
An important first hurdle for voluntary programs is recruiting and retaining eligible participants. This report describes how ten Supporting Healthy Marriage programs focused on developing effective marketing strategies, keeping couples engaged in the program, and building management systems. These efforts resulted in encouraging early levels of participation by low-income couples.
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Policies That Strengthen Fatherhood and Family Relationships
What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
Working Paper
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2010. Virginia Knox, Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Elana Bildner.
This working paper, prepared for a conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, reviews evidence about the effectiveness of two strategies to strengthen family relationships and fathers’ involvement with their children: fatherhood programs aimed at disadvantaged noncustodial fathers and relationship skills programs for parents who are together.
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Transitional Jobs
Background, Program Models, and Evaluation Evidence
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2010. Dan Bloom.
Transitional jobs programs provide temporary, wage-paying jobs and other services to help individuals who have difficulty succeeding in the regular labor market. In the context of a new federal initiative to support and study these programs, this paper describes what is known about transitional jobs and offers ideas for program design and research.
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Alternative Welfare-to-Work Strategies for the Hard-to-Employ
Testing Transitional Jobs and Pre-Employment Services in Philadelphia
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2009. Dan Bloom, Sarah Rich, Cindy Redcross, Erin Jacobs, Jennifer Yahner, and Nancy Pindus.
Interim results from an evaluation of two different welfare-to-work strategies for long-term welfare recipients show that transitional jobs increase employment and earnings but that it is difficult to successfully engage participants in extensive pre-employment services.
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Spending Time Together
Time Use Estimates for Economically Disadvantaged and Nondisadvantaged Married Couples in the United States
Working Paper
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2009. David J. Fein
Contrary to some expectations, economically disadvantaged couples spend slightly more time together than nondisadvantaged ones, and more of that time is spent in leisure activities, according to this paper from the Supporting Healthy Marriage Project. While these couples may face different barriers to participating in voluntary programs than higher-income couples, their “time crunch” appears to be no worse.
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Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Implementation, Two-Year Impacts, and Costs of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
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2009. Cindy Redcross, Dan Bloom, Gilda Azurdia, Janine Zweig, and Nancy Pindus.
A random assignment study shows that participants in CEO’s transitional jobs program were less likely to be convicted of a crime, to be admitted to prison for a new conviction, or to be incarcerated for any reason in prison or jail over the first two years. The program also had a large but short-lived impact on employment.
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Working toward Wellness
Early Results from a Telephone Care Management Program for Medicaid Recipients with Depression
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2009. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, and Charles Michalopoulos.
Very early results from a random assignment study suggest that Working toward Wellness increased the use of mental health services and had mixed effects on depression severity. Impacts are concentrated among Hispanic participants.
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Designing a Marriage Education Demonstration and Evaluation for Low-Income Married Couples
Working Paper
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2008. Virginia Knox and David Fein.
This working paper introduces the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation, the first large-scale, multisite experiment that is testing voluntary marriage education programs for low-income married couples with children in eight sites across the country. The year-long programs consist of a series of marriage education workshops with additional family support services and referrals.
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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 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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Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2005. Lisa A. Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, and Jared Smith.
While positive effects on most parents’ earnings and income faded after six years, young children in some of the most disadvantaged families were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. And, for the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting “leg up” in the labor market.
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Married and Poor
Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S.
Working Paper
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2004. David J. Fein.
Using recent surveys and published reports, this working paper assembles a portrait of the attitudes and behaviors of disadvantaged married couples. It gathers and assesses descriptive statistics on the formation and stability, characteristics, and quality of marriages in the low-income population in the U.S. We welcome discussion and comments on this working paper.
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The Effects of Marriage and Divorce on Families and Children
Presented Before the Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate
Congressional Testimony
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2004. Gordon Berlin.
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The Long-Term Effects of the Minnesota Family Investment Program on Marriage and Divorce Among Two-Parent Families
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2003. Lisa A. Gennetian.
Building on findings that the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) resulted in higher rates of marital stability among two-parent recipient families who participated in this initiative that provided financial incentives to welfare recipients who worked, this report documents MFIP’s long-term effects on marriage and divorce among participants in the program’s sample of nearly 2,500 two-parent families who were married or cohabiting at study entry.
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The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
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2001. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox.
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Parenting and Providing
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross.
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Working and Earning
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Low-Income Fathers' Employment
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2000. John M. Martinez, Cynthia Miller.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
A Summary of the Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program
Volume 1 Effects on Adults
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2000. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian, Martey Dodoo, Jo Anna Hunter, Cindy Redcross.
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Final Report on the Implementation and Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program in Ramsey County
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2000. Patricia Auspos, Cynthia Miller, Jo Anna Hunter.
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Reforming Welfare and Rewarding Work
Final Report on the Minnesota Family Investment Program Volume 2 Effects on Children
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2000. Lisa Gennetian, Cynthia Miller.
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The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum
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2000. Eileen Hayes with Kay Sherwood.
Developed as part of MDRC’s Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, the Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to help fathers more effectively fulfill their roles as parents, partners, and workers.
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Fathers' Fair Share
Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood
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Russell Sage Foundation.
1999. Earl Johnson, Ann Levine, Fred Doolittle.
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Explaining the Minnesota Family Investment Program's Impacts by Housing Status
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1998. Cynthia Miller.
An evaluation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), the state’s welfare waiver program, found that the program produced substantially larger increases in employment and earnings among welfare recipients living in public or subsidized housing than among recipients in private housing. This paper examines several possible reasons that may account for these findings, including differences in characteristics between the two groups of recipients, differences in their proximity to jobs, differences in residential stability, which might aid in the transition to work, and interactions between MFIP's work incentives and the public/subsidized housing rent rules. The evidence, although indirect, suggests that interactions between MFIP rules and the rent rules in public housing helped to produce larger employment impacts for residents in public or subsidized housing.
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Building Opportunities, Enforcing Obligations
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share
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1998. Fred Doolittle, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Sharon Rowser.
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Working with Low-Income Cases
Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share
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1998. Fred Doolittle, Suzanne Lynn.
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Parenting Behavior in a Sample of Young Mothers in Poverty
Results of the New Chance Observational Study
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1998. Martha J. Zaslow and Carolyn A. Eldred, Editors.
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Making Welfare Work and Work Pay
Implementation and 18-Month Impacts of the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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1997. Cynthia Miller, Virginia Knox, Patricia Auspos, Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Alan Orenstein.
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New Chance
Final Report on a Comprehensive Program for Young Mothers in Poverty and Their Children
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1997. Janet C. Quint, Johannes M. Bos, Denise F. Polit.
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Low-Income Parents and the Parents' Fair Share Demonstration
An Early Qualitative Look at Low-Income Noncustodial Parents (NCPs) and How One Policy Initiative Has Attempted to Improve Their Ability to Pay Child Support
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1996. Earl Johnson, Fred Doolittle.
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MFIP
An Early Report on Minnesota's Approach to Welfare Reform
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1995. Virginia Knox, Amy Brown, Winston Lin.
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New Chance
The Cost Analysis of a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1994. Barbara L. Fink with Mary E. Farrell.
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New Chance
Interim Findings on a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1994. Janet C. Quint, Denise F. Polit, Hans Bos, George Cave.
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Matching Opportunities to Obligations
Lessons for Child Support Reform from the Parents' Fair Share Pilot Phase
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1994. Dan Bloom, Kay Sherwood.
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Lives of Promise, Lives of Pain
Young Mothers After New Chance
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1994. Janet C. Quint and Judith S. Musick with Joyce A. Ladner.
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Child Support Enforcement
A Case Study
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1993. Dan Bloom with Bridget Dixon.
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Caring and Paying
What Fathers and Mothers Say About Child Support
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1992. Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Kay Sherwood, Mercer Sullivan.
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New Chance
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1991. Janet C. Quint, Barbara L. Fink, Sharon L. Rowser.
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New Chance
Lessons from the Pilot Phase
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1989. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia A. Guy.
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