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

Discover case studies highlighting innovative interventions that aim to improve employment outcomes for TANF participants and others with low incomes but that have not been rigorously evaluated.

This report describes findings from literature and document reviews exploring how to define, measure, and support family economic well-being in early childhood home visiting (ECHV). The findings can provide useful insights to policymakers, researchers, and ECHV practitioners, who can learn about potential avenues to support family economic well-being, and who might be interested in different sections based on their work.

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.

Explore findings and recommendations for career pathways program providers considering the use of program data to predict participant success outcomes.

This brief describes the effectiveness of programs that were identified by the Pathways Clearinghouse as using work experience and work-based learning as their primary service.

Learn about the effectiveness of programs identified by the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse as using employment retention services as their primary service.

While significant research has come forward to improve our collective understanding of human services programs and their contribution to the economic and social well-being of individuals and families, notable knowledge gaps continue to persist regarding how these programs can best serve the needs and interests of rural communities.

Discover an overview of racial inequity findings in funding for human services programs in rural counties.

An overview of housing needs, the relationship of housing needs and human services, and the availability of housing supports in rural counties.