This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report identifies a research design plan that will be used in interviewing up to 140 participants from among 27 HPOG 2.0 grantees across the country. The interviews will provide insights about…

This recent Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report reviews the implementation of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) 2.0 program. The report examines how the 32 grantees in this funding round developed their five-year annual…

This Jobs for the Future report profiles the Opportunity Works program, a national effort to create postsecondary education and career pathways for over 2,000 out-of-school and out-of-work youth. The research in this report identifies four…

This newly released report from the Community Action Partnership, representing over 1,000 Community Action Agencies (CAA) nationwide, presents a broad landscape of the activities and impact of CAAs. It identifies several “spotlight stories” to…

This Aspen Institute report describes The Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF), an initiative of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. Collaborative approaches funded under this program represent multiple stakeholders working together to…

Texas’s Summer Earn and Learn (SEAL) program and the Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) programs in Arkansas are identified as successful examples of collaboration between vocational rehabilitation agencies and…

This Annie E. Casey Foundation-supported study, authored by Brookings and Child Trends, identifies three factors that contribute to future economic progress among low-income youth: a post-secondary education (potentially equalizes young adults…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report is based on interviews conducted with over 80 Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration (U.S. Department of Labor) and Subsidized Transitional Employment Demonstration (U.S. Department of Health…

This Jobs for the Future research report describes how short-term apprenticeship programs can be integrated into a full career ladder. It identifies how shorter apprenticeships (18 months or less) might represent stackable rungs on the career ladder…

This MDRC policy brief identifies the positive earnings and employment outcomes of three programs designed to support upward mobility in youth: YouthBuild, Year Up, and New York City’s Young Adult Internship Program. In particular, a key finding…