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This brief discusses what we learned about using financial incentives from studying the experience of two employment coaching programs serving adults with low incomes that offered financial incentives.

LIFT, a coaching intervention in four cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, that aims to help participants identify and attain goals related to self-sufficiency.

Lessons learned from four employment coaching programs that made major changes to their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic

This report summarizes the design and implementation of the Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) program and describes FaDSS’ design and goals, the target population and program participants, the implementation of coaching, and other services available to program participants.

An important goal of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other assistance programs is to help their participants become economically secure and achieve self-sufficiency. To meet this goal, some programs offer services to address challenges to employment such as those caused by lack of education or occupational skills, mental health issues, or lack of transportation or child care. However, for some participants, these services are not enough to help them become economically secure.

New research has led policymakers and researchers to argue that some people might not achieve economic independence in part because of difficulty applying the self-regulation skills needed to get, keep, and advance in a job (Pavetti 2018; Cavadel et al. 2017). These self-regulation skills—sometimes referred...

This impact report presents findings from the first 9-12 months of an RCT of four employment coaching programs' effects on participants' self-regulation and employment outcomes.

This report discusses issues related to selecting and testing measures of self-regulation skills in evaluations of employment programs for low-income populations. First, it presents an overview of criteria for selecting measures of self-regulation skills. Second, through a presentation of empirical evidence, this report demonstrates a process for developing and testing self-regulation measures in the context of an impact evaluation of employment coaching programs for low-income populations. Third, it discusses how the process could be adapted to other studies.

These briefs summarize a short term impact report by program site, which presents findings from the first 9-12 months of an RCT of four employment coaching programs' effects on participants' self-regulation and employment outcomes.

This brief shares promising strategies and lessons learned that human services agency leaders and staff might adopt to help program participants use and strengthen self-regulation skills