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Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 2.0) Intermediate-Term Impact Report 

This report is to summarize the healthcare training, employment, earnings, and career pathways outcomes of HPOG 2.0 program participants.

Running from 2015 to 2021, the second round of the Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF’s) Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program (“HPOG 2.0”) funded grantees to provide support services and healthcare occupational training according to career pathways principles.  ACF’s Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) is administering a robust evaluation of the HPOG 2.0 effort: the National and Tribal Evaluation of the 2nd Generation of Health Profession Opportunity Grants.  The National Evaluation of 27 non-Tribal grantees is comparing outcomes and impacts for program applicants randomly assigned access to the grantees’ HPOG 2.0 programs (treatment group) versus those randomly assigned access only to services available elsewhere in the community (control group).

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, disrupting American lives, labor markets, and local HPOG 2.0 programs.  To better understand how COVID changed outcomes and impacts for HPOG 2.0 study members relative to the pre-COVID period, OPRE contracted with Abt Associates to conduct the HPOG 2.0 National Evaluation COVID-Cohort Study.

This Analysis Plan describes the methodology for answering the study’s key research questions.  The document also improves the transparency and replicability of study findings by committing the research team to make consequential decisions prior to inspecting estimates of program impacts.  Most methods and operationalizations of outcomes measures continue from earlier HPOG 2.0 impact analyses and are described in previous Analysis Plans.  This Analysis Plan therefore primarily focuses on specifying analytic methods and presentation strategies specific to this study’s understanding of how COVID shifted the HPOG 2.0 program.

Summarize findings from OPRE’s HPOG 2.0 Systems Study to identify the extent to which systems activities, as implemented by HPOG program operators and their partners, may have influenced the local system.

Explore the HPOG National Evaluation Implementation Study Report which describes the variety of programs, program components, implementation strategies, the context in which programs operate, and program participants’ characteristics, experiences, and engagement.

The Systems Study captures the perspectives of 15 program operators and their partners on the extent to which systems activities of the HPOG 2.0 programs—collaboration, improved access to and quality of training and services, employer engagement, data sharing, and sustainability—improved how their systems functioned.

This research explores the prevalence of training patterns that are likely to lead to jobs that “pay well” and how those training patterns vary across several dimensions: available years of HPOG federal program funding, enrollee characteristics, and funding round (HPOG 1.0 vs. HPOG 2.0).

Drawing on in-depth interviews with healthcare occupational training participants, this brief reviews their considerations when balancing caregiving responsibilities with their training.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, HPOG 2.0 programs (which train participants for in-demand healthcare jobs) adapted their procedures to continue activities while protecting their staff, students, and partners.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with healthcare occupational training participants, this brief reviews their considerations when making occupational choices.