Key Elements of Employment Programs: Strategies from the Field for Identifying, Implementing, and Sustaining Core Components

This report brief provides guidance for employment service providers and other human services agency staff who want to replicate evidence-based interventions.

Transforming Business as Usual and Advancing Innovation Through Public-Private Partnerships

This brief describes lessons learned and potential strategies that technical assistance providers can use to encourage successful public–private partnerships. It also highlights considerations for funders of similar initiatives.

Learn, Innovate, Improve: A Practice Guide for Enhancing Programs and Improving Lives

Designed to be used in partnership with a research or technical assistance (TA) support team, this practice guide can help leaders in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and related programs implement evidence-driven change.

Program Snapshot: Families Achieving Success Today

This snapshot summarizes the characteristics of one program, Families Achieving Success Today (FAST), that is being studied as part of the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies Project.

Engaging Training and Technical Assistance Recipients: Lessons from the Field

This brief documents existing knowledge about training and technical assistance (TA) and develops a learning agenda to inform the design, focus, and effectiveness of training and TA.

The Effects of Employment Counseling on Labor Market Outcomes for Adults and Dislocated Workers: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Experiment

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.

Developing Equitable Training and Technical Assistance

This brief provides steps that can be taken to improve the likelihood that training and TA will engage potential recipients and their communities equitably.

Improving the Design, Targeting, and Effectiveness of Training and Technical Assistance: A Learning Agenda

This learning agenda draws on the input of technical experts, selected Health and Human Services staff, and the previous work conducted under the Models of Coordination and Technical Assistance to Achieve Outcomes in Communities project.

How to Assess and Address Technical Assistance Needs: Insights from the Literature and Practice

This brief shares examples of training and TA in the context of cross-sector collaboration, which was an initial focus of the study.

Facilitating Local Cross-Sector Collaboration: Strategies for Intermediaries

This brief describes findings from interviews with designers, implementers, and participants of federal or philanthropic cross-sector collaboration initiatives.

Putting Paper to Work: How Rethinking Forms Can Put People First and Improve Engagement in Human Services Programs

This practice brief shares strategies human services programs can use to improve customers’ experience and make their engagement in programming more meaningful.

Foundations for Innovation: How Three Human Services Programs Laid the Groundwork for Sustainable Change

This practice brief introduces three foundations for innovation human services agencies can adopt to better serve children and families in an environment that has become more complex and challenging.

Comparing Job Training Impact Estimates Using Survey and Administrative Data

This report documents and explores the strengths and drawbacks of data sources commonly used to produce impact estimates for evaluations of workforce development programs.

Using Evidence-Informed Practices to Advance Youth Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being (Presentation)

Many state and local agencies want to use evidence to make progress on improving their services but don’t know where to start.

Denver WIOA Out-of-School Youth Services: Using Evidence-Informed Practices to Advance Youth Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being

Mathematica examined services offered through a partnership between the Office of Economic Development and Denver Public Schools to provide career and educational support to out-of-school youth. We also assessed the extent to which services incorporated features of evidence-informed interventions.

Training Enrollment and Completion: By the Numbers (Infographic)

This infographic presents information on enrollment and completion in training programs by program, gender, education, race and ethnicity, and length of unemployment spell from a national study of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.

What Predicts Training Completion and Credential Receipt? (Issue Brief)

This issue brief presents findings on the factors that predict completion of training programs and the receipt of a credential from a national study of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.

National Experimental Evaluation of Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs: Study Highlights

This publication presents study highlights from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.

What Works to Help Job Seekers? Rigorous Evaluation Found Individualized Staff Assistance Effective, But Training Needs Improvement (Study Brief)

This brief presents the impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.

The Right Tool for the Job: A Meta-Regression of Employment Strategies' Effects on Different Outcomes

The final brief from the Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review (ESER) uses a rigorous analysis to assess which specific employment strategies worked best overall for achieving specific outcomes and for serving specific types of people.

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA 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.

Gaps in the Evidence on Employment and Training for Low-Income Adults

This brief describes and identifies limitations of both the interventions studied in the Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review (ESER) and of the studies themselves.

Assessing the Evidence Base: Strategies That Support Employment for Low-Income Adults

This brief presents an overview of the Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review approach, describes the studies reviewed, and presents some results from the review.

The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Implementation Study of Four Training Program for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers

This report presents implementation study findings from a study sponsored by the Department of Labor to examine the effects of training sponsored by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 grants. The training was designed to improve the earnings of unemployed and other disadvantaged workers.

The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers

This report presents impact findings from a study sponsored by the Department of Labor to examine the effects of training sponsored by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 grants. The training was designed to improve the earnings of unemployed and other disadvantaged workers.

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 15-Month Impact Findings on the 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.

States' Decisions to Adopt Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The federal policy response to the recession and the lingering weak labor market included substantial changes to the unemployment compensation (UC) system, the most comprehensive of which was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Resources for Connecting TANF Recipients and Other Low-Income Families to Good Jobs

This resource guide contains a summary overview and appendix tables that identify and catalogue resources that state and local Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) agencies can use to help connect TANF recipients and other low-income families to promising occupations.

Evaluating National Ongoing Programs: Implementing the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation

This report describes the implementation of the impact study of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.

Reviewing the Research on Improving Employment Outcomes for Low-Income Adults (Fact Sheet)

The Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review is a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of employment and training programs for low-income adults.

Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review: Standards and Methods

The Employment Strategies for Low-Income Adults Evidence Review is a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of employment and training programs for low-income adults.

Designing a National Evaluation of an Ongoing Program: Lessons from the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation

An Effectiveness Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Registered Apprenticeship in 10 States

This study examines Registered Apprenticeships, career-training programs administered by the Employment and Training Administration's Office of Apprenticeship in the U.S. Department of Labor, in conjunction with state apprenticeship agencies.

Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA-Sponsored Studies

This annotated bibliography provides a summary of research publications ETA has released since 1995, as selected by researchers from Mathematica with guidance from ETA staff.

Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings for First and Second Graders

This report, the second from a large-scale study for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences of four early math programs, shows that the curriculum used by the study schools mattered.

Pre-Design Study for the Evaluation of Recovery Act Green Jobs, Health Care, and Other High Growth Competitive Grants

This white paper provides guidance to the U.S. Department of Labor on different methodologies for evaluating grant programs established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).