Connecting Justice-Involved Individuals with Health Homes at Reentry: New York and Rhode Island

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Justice-involved individuals have a high prevalence of mental health, substance use, and chronic health conditions. Connecting those individuals to health services during reentry could help improve their health and lower their risk of recidivism. This Urban Institute brief highlights how New York and Rhode Island have used Medicaid Health Homes to ensure that returning citizens have access to health care as they transition back into the community. Lessons learned from both states include the need for pre-release discharge planning so participants are immediately connected to health services upon release, and the value of having a liaison bridge the gap between the justice and health systems. Both states also needed creativity and commitment at the state level to fund the health home model, as well as formal structures for communication and collaboration across systems.
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2017-02-14T19:00:00
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http://www.urban.org/research/publication/connecting-justice-involved-individua…
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2017-02-15

An Evaluation of Financial Empowerment Centers: Building People’s Financial Stability as a Public Service

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The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund released the results of an evaluation of a three-year investment in free, one-on-one financial counseling to residents in five cities. This project was based on a model that originated in New York City, in which individuals in financial trouble receive personalized help from a professionally trained counselor through their local government. Bloomberg Philanthropies partnered with Denver, Lansing, Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Antonio to see how they could replicate this model. In each city, the local government implemented the model and contracted with a nonprofit partner to provide counseling services. Over 22,000 individuals received financial counseling, and they were able to achieve positive financial outcomes like opening bank accounts, reducing debt, improving credit, and establishing emergency savings. Each city also found sources of public funding to sustain the program beyond the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant.
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2017-07-12T20:00:00
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http://cfefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FEC-Evaluation.pdf
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2017-07-13
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Beyond Reporting: Using Data as a Performance Management Tool

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This MDRC brief is part of a series that documents the implementation of the Change Capital Fund, an economic mobility initiative in New York City. The Change Capital Fund was a consortium of donors who invested in local community development corporations that were pursuing antipoverty strategies that integrated housing, education, and employment services. In this brief, the authors focus on how the Change Capital fund used program data as a tool for continuous learning and improvement, including the specific assistance that grantees received to build their capacity to use data for performance management.
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2017-07-13T20:00:00
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OFA Initiatives
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http://www.mdrc.org/publication/beyond-reporting
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2017-07-14
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Do Sectoral Employment Programs Work? New Evidence from New York City's Sector-Focused Career Centers

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This journal article estimates how three large sectoral employment programs in New York City affected the employment and earnings of participants. These Sector-Focused Career Centers (SFCCs) target occupations that offer competitive wages of at least $10 per hour, full-time jobs, advancement opportunities for workers, and high growth potential for businesses. Participants receive a variety of services, including resume review, interview skills development, job search assistance, and career advice. Results showed gains in employment levels and earnings for participants, and participants who received industry-specific training had the greatest earnings gains.
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2016-12-04T19:00:00
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12164/full
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2016-12-05
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Replication studies of evidence-based programs and policies

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This video from the 2016 Research and Evaluation Conference on Self-Sufficiency (RECS) reviews replication studies of evidence-based policies and programs managed by the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity and the Office of Adolescent Health through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. The interventions discussed include Jobs-Plus, the CUNY Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, ¡Cuídate!, Reducing the Risk, and the Safer Sex Intervention.

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2016-06-02T20:00:00
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http://www.recsconference.net/2016videos.htm
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2016-06-03

2016 OFA Regions I, II, III, and IV East Coast TANF Directors Meeting

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The 2016 Office of Family Assistance (OFA) Region I (Boston), Region II (New York), Region III (Philadelphia), and Region IV (Atlanta) East Coast TANF Directors Meeting was held on July 12‐14, 2016, in Providence, Rhode Island. The theme, Reflecting on the Past: Looking Forward to the Future, was an opportunity for TANF program directors and other key stakeholders to engage with peers about innovative ideas, strategies, and collaborations that promote economic and social well‐being for individuals, families, and communities. Meeting participants engaged with OFA leadership, their peers, and experts in the field to discuss some of the pressing challenges facing TANF participants and low‐income, vulnerable families today and ways that TANF programs can serve as a comprehensive support system for these families. Sessions focused on two‐generation approaches to breaking the cycle of poverty, TANF/WIOA coordination and implementation, career pathways and apprenticeships, targeting the hard‐to‐serve and executive functioning, and additional opportunities for TANF programs in 2016 and beyond. The context of these discussions was grounded in using data to measure program effectiveness and drive decision‐making.

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2016-08-29T20:00:00
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2016-08-30
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Regions I-IV Meeting Report 2.03 MB
Regions I-IV Agenda 296.23 KB
Regions I-IV Speaker Bios 229.15 KB
Regions I-IV Participant List 259.2 KB
Regions I-IV Workbook 2.57 MB
Human Centered Design 702.38 KB
Human Centered Design 2 1.74 MB
WIOA Implementation_Rose Bud Thorn 443.19 KB
WIOA Implementation_Partnership Memo 124.24 KB
WIOA Implementation_WIOA Readiness Survey 383.74 KB
WIOA Implementation_TCA Youth Profile 162.12 KB
WIOA Implementation_TCA Profile 105.2 KB
WIOA Implementation_JobPro Games 2.35 MB
Interactive HCD Activity_Lab Design 524.8 KB
Lab One_2Gen in TN 3.99 MB
Lab One_2Gen in NC 1.24 MB
Lab One_2Gen at the Elizabeth Ministry (TEM) 6.58 MB
Lab Two_Job Opportunities Task Force 533.77 KB
Lab Two_Pennsylvania KEYS Program Guide 602.1 KB
Lab Two_Census Employment Data 3.92 MB
Interactive Activity_Empathy 425.86 KB
Working with Hard to Serve_PCG Human Services 2.75 MB

The New CTE: New York City as Laboratory for America

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Previously known as “vocational education,” career and technical education (CTE) has emerged in the past decade as one of the most promising approaches to preparing students for the future. New York City is at the forefront of the national revolution in career education, with 50 of the city’s schools dedicated exclusively to CTE and others providing opportunities to concentrate in a CTE subject area. This report from the Manhattan Institute presents data suggesting that young people who attend CTE schools have better attendance rates and are more likely to graduate. The report concluded that continued program innovation, greater resource investment, and stronger collaboration with business and industry are necessary to build on the CTE movement’s initial success.
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2016-02-29T19:00:00
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http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/new-cte-new-york-city-laboratory-americ…
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2016-03-01

The Second Generation of Jobs-Plus Programs: Implementation Lessons from San Antonio and the Bronx

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The Jobs-Plus Public Housing Revitalization Initiative was designed to raise and sustain the employment and earnings of residents of public housing developments. It had three parts: (1) employment services offered at on-site job centers, (2) changes in rent rules that provide financial incentives to work, and (3) community support for work through neighbor-to-neighbor conversations. The initiative was subject to a rigorous evaluation that found that Jobs-Plus boosted residents’ annual earnings by 16 percent, or $1,300 per year. This report from MDRC investigates how Jobs-Plus was replicated in more contemporary settings, analyzing the early implementation experiences of a community-based provider in the Bronx and the San Antonio Housing Authority in Texas.
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2015-09-30T20:00:00
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http://www.mdrc.org/publication/second-generation-jobs-plus-programs
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2015-10-01

OFA Webinar: Providing Mental Health Services for TANF and Other Low-Income Participants

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The Office of Family Assistance hosted a Webinar on Providing Mental Health Services for TANF and Other Low-Income Participants on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 from 12:30-2:00 p.m. ET. In this facilitated webinar, presenters provided an overview of the challenges programs face in providing mental health services; progress made in states since welfare reform in 1996; and newer implications and opportunities for collaboration in the context of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Presenters provided examples from programs that have taken different approaches to addressing the mental health needs of TANF and other low-income participants, through work opportunities coupled with supportive services, partnerships with outside mental health services, and connection to Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Presenters included: Dr. Mary Spooner, Senior Manager, ICF International; Miranda Gray, Reach Up Administrator, Economic Services Division, Vermont Department for Children and Families; and Timothy Cantrell, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Rehabilitative Services, Human Resources Administration, New York City Department of Social Services.

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2016-06-15T08:30:00
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2016-06-06
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Mobility Challenges for Households in Poverty

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This research-to-practice brief highlights data from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey. Data indicates that low-income households spend a higher proportion of their income on transportation expenses. This disproportionately affects African Americans and Hispanics, who experience the highest rates of poverty. Interestingly, this brief explains that low-income individuals experience transportation differently, depending on the city in which they reside. In Los Angeles and Atlanta, low-income populations have shorter travel radiuses between home and work than the average population. In New York, this trend is the opposite – individuals in poverty are more likely to travel further distances to find work. These trends and challenges have implications for all urban residents, which seem likely to persist in the face of rising transportation costs.
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2015-07-26T20:00:00
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https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/PovertyBrief.pdf