Evaluations of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program indicate that career advancement after entry-level employment remains a challenge. This brief explores how career pathways programs like HPOG can partner with employers to…

The Office of Family Assistance’s Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative provides funding for the Fathers Advancing Community Together (FACT) program in Contra Costa County, California. FACT offers responsible parenting, healthy…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation brief summarizes findings from three different demonstration projects that are designed to support noncustodial parents: the Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration (ETJD), Parents and Children…

This brief offers insights on the most important flexibilities, adaptations, and innovations made by state human services agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and shares recommendations for how these experiences can inform future state and…

This brief analyzes the relationship between educational stability (measured by school enrollment and dropout rate) and justice involvement among youth of color. Using data from 2001 to 2016, the brief focuses on 10 California counties with the…

This research-to-practice brief discusses implementation of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) employment model by the Family Service League in New York and Asian Human Services in Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic. The IPS model was…