LEAP Issue Brief Compendium: Delivering Workforce Services to Justice-Involved Job Seekers Before and After Release

This compendium presents a summary of findings from the planning and implementation phases of the Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) pilots, and includes 10 issue briefs organized around key themes that emerged during the evaluation of LEAP.

Developing American Job Centers in Jails: Implementation of the Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) Grants, Executive Summary

This is the executive summary for the final report from the LEAP evaluation. The report examines the implementation experiences of LEAP grantees.

Developing American Job Centers in Jails: Implementation of the Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) Grants

This report examines the implementation experiences of LEAP grantees.

Youth CareerConnect: Early Implementation Findings

The purpose of this report is to explore implementation of Youth CareerConnect about two years after funding began.

Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants: Interim Findings on Multiagency Collaboration and Cluster Progress

This interim report presents early findings on the implementation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (JIAC) and Advanced Manufacturing JIAC grants through summer 2014.

Design Options for an Impact Evaluation of the Participant Assistance Program

This report focuses on two potential impact evaluation designs that would test—in slightly different ways—the impact of receiving a referral to EBSA’s website compared with receiving BA assistance through the telephone hotline, which is currently the predominant mode inquirers use to access services.

Summary of the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Evaluation: Findings for Proof-of-Concept Year

The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC), a demonstration by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, aims to mitigate summer child food insecurity by leveraging existing electronic benefit transfer technologies used by the Supplemental Nutrition Program for...

Congressional Status Report: Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Demonstrations, Appendices

Congressional Status Report: Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Demonstrations

The development, health, and well being of children depends on access to a safe and secure source of food.

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children: Early Experiences through June 2011 of the Proof-of-Concept Year

This report describes the early experiences of the five State agencies receiving grants to implement the demonstration during a proof-of-concept (POC) year.

Examining a New Model for Prisoner Re-Entry Services: The Evaluation of Beneficiary Choice

This report describes the Employment and Training Administration’s Beneficiary Choice model, which offers ex-offenders a choice of community-based programs to help them reintegrate into their communities.

Reinvesting in America's Youth: Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment Initiative

This report examines implementation of the 2009 summer youth employment initiative, which placed more than 314,000 youth in summer jobs.

Evaluation of the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative

In November 2005, 30 faith-based and community organizations received grants to implement a prisoner re-entry initiative demonstration, which aimed to strengthen communities affected by large numbers of formerly incarcerated individuals through employment-centered projects that incorporate education,...

Giving Ex-Offenders a Choice in Life: First Findings from the Beneficiary Choice Demonstration

In July 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor funded the Beneficiary Choice Contracting Program, a demonstration to help young, recently released ex-offenders successfully enter and remain in the workforce and stay free of crime.

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Findings from the Evaluation of Project GATE

While many Americans dream about starting their own business and have the motivation to do so, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from realizing their dreams.

Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants

The U.S. Department of Labor awards National Emergency Grants (NEGs) to states or local areas that need supplemental resources to provide workforce development services.

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship

While many Americans dream about starting their own businesses, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from moving forward.

Two Studies of Father Involvement in Early Head Start Programs: A National Survey and a Demonstration Program Evaluation

Using data from a population survey of 261 Early Head Start programs and a father involvement demonstration of 21 programs, the authors examine the extent to which fathers participate in Early Head Start intervention programs for infants and toddlers.

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

This brief delineates lessons for policymakers and practitioners who are embarking on new efforts to increase fathers' involvement in Head Start and other programs and in their children's lives.

The Effects of Customer Choice: First Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment

This report presents early findings from the evaluation of the ITA experiment, which aims to provide federal, state, and local policymakers with information on the effectiveness of, and trade-offs inherent in, three different approaches to managing customer choice in Workforce Investment Act training...

Schooling in the Workplace: Increasing the Scale and Quality of Work-Based Learning

Examines work-based learning activities in high school, noting that a diverse mix of students—including both high- and low-achievers—participates in some work-based activity. However, females are more likely to do so than males.

Protecting Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to Grow Head Start Partnerships

Further Progress, Persistent Constraints: Findings from a Second Survey of the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program

Finds that most WtW grantees, except recently funded ones, are now delivering services, but restrictive eligibility rules still in effect in late 1999 continue to impede enrollment. Despite low enrollment, grantees have moved expeditiously to place WtW participants in work activities.