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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.

Explore OPRE’s Understanding Key Concepts of Economic Empowerment for People Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking for definitions of key concepts related to this topic. These definitions were generated by people with lived experience of human trafficking and practitioners who provide economic empowerment services to people who have experienced human trafficking.

Explore OPRE’s Economic Empowerment for People Who Have Experienced Human Trafficking: A Guide for Anti-Trafficking Service Providers for recommendations for programming related to economic empowerment and considerations for applying these recommendations, such as through survivor engagement, partnership development, funding, and program evaluation.

What we learned about the coach—participant relationship from employment coaching.

This report presents findings from this mixed-methods study that investigates the factors associated with following the success sequence and economic self-sufficiency.

Explore findings related to racial equity among healthcare occupations and the resulting racial wage gaps and consider implications for career pathways program providers to begin addressing these gaps.

Discover strategies that individual staff members providing employment services and TANF program leaders can adopt and implement to combat biases at an organizational and individual level when working with participants.

The purpose of this brief is to summarize the findings from select child support literature and highlight remaining knowledge gaps. The information in this brief may be useful to researchers and practitioners who are interested in the evidence base for child support services and addressing open questions to support evidence-informed practice.

Explore whether and to what extent the choice of an employment data source matters in studies like National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies (NEWWS). 

Design and implementation of the programs participating in the Evaluation of Employment Coaching for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Related Populations study.