About MDRC
Dalporto supports career and technical education work that spans MDRC’s K-12 Education, Postsecondary Education, and Low-Wage Workers policy areas, bringing her experience as both a qualitative researcher and operations specialist to that work. She currently leads the selection of community colleges for the New World of Work study, an examination of the 21st-century skills program of that name, and works in many capacities for the CareerWise Colorado study, which is exploring the implementation of an intensive apprenticeship program. Dalporto is also a site liaison for the MyGoals program, which delivers employment coaching informed by behavioral psychology (specifically findings related to executive functioning).
Previous projects include the WorkAdvance program, a career advancement demonstration of a sector-focused training model for adults, and Project Rise, an internship program for young adults attending high school equivalency classes. Dalporto holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MA in education from Hunter College. Before joining MDRC, Dalporto was a Fulbright grantee in Argentina and taught high school English in New York City.
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MDRC Publications
ReportImplementation of a Sector-Focused Career Advancement Model for Low-Skilled Adults
October, 2014The WorkAdvance program model aims to prepare individuals for good jobs in high-demand industries and to increase their prospects for staying employed and moving up. Participants receive career readiness and occupational skills training, job placement, and advancement coaching. This report looks at how four providers translated the model into workable programs.
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Other Publications
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Projects
Twenty-first-century skills (also known as noncognitive, employability, or soft skills) are increasingly viewed as essential for favorable outcomes in both education and employment.
James A. Riccio, Donna Wharton-Fields, Nina Castells, Stephanie Rubino, Keith Olejniczak, Joshua Vermette, Hannah DalportoMyGoals for Employment Success is a new workforce program intended to help recipients of federal housing subsidies who are not employed find work, build careers, and advance toward greater self-sufficiency.
Apprenticeship programs have been more limited in the United States than they have been in many European countries, both in the numbers of individuals and the number and type of employers who participate in them.
Frieda Molina, Barbara S. Goldman, Richard Hendra, Betsy L. Tessler, Gayle Hamilton, Alexandra Pennington, Keith Olejniczak, Kelsey Schaberg, Hannah DalportoPast evaluations have provided solid evidence regarding what works to help low-income individuals become employed. However, these studies have also found that many people who found jobs were not better off financially, in part because these jobs were unstable, low paying, and provided few advancement opportunities.
In the United States, over six million young people are “disconnected” — neither in school nor working. Over a million of these disconnected young adults are between the ages of 18 and 24 years but lack either a high school diploma or equivalency certificate.