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Millions of Americans have had their driver’s licenses suspended at some point because they have not paid legal fines and fees. Having one’s license suspended can make it harder to find and keep a job, can increase one’s exposure to the criminal legal system, and can generally place great strain on one’s life and the life of one’s family. This issue brief examines the causes, consequences, and scope of the practice of suspending driver’s licenses due to unpaid fines or fees.

Understand the Reasonable Efforts Finding Study design, what it seeks to learn about factors that affect a judge’s reasonable efforts decision, data the study will collect through case file reviews and court observation, the study sample, and its importance to the legal community.

This report summarizes the design and implementation of MyGoals for Employment Success (MyGoals), an experimental employment coaching demonstration program developed by MDRC, a research organization, with assistance from Arnold Ventures and other funders, and launched in early 2017.

The Head Start Connects project is conducting research to understand how Head Start and Early Head Start programs coordinate family support services for parents and guardians.

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), offers an annual Evaluation and Monitoring 101 training to develop ACF staff skills to assess program performance and impact. This brief describes the training’s history, content, and learning outcomes, as well as OPRE’s approach to continuously improving the training based on participant feedback.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Network (the FSSRN) supports independent researchers working to enhance family self-sufficiency research at the state and local levels.

The Building Evidence on Employment Strategies (BEES) project is conducting an evaluation of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) programs being implemented in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to see whether and how individuals receiving IPS services in this environment benefit from the model.

Suggestions for exploratory analyses for grantees and evaluators who have completed an impact evaluation but did not find favorable, statistically significant impacts of their program.

Explore this OPRE-funded brief that examines the first descriptive picture of grant recipients that converted enrollment slots from Head Start to Early Head Start between 2019 and 2021.

This Case Study Report discusses how Montgomery County, Maryland’s Department of Health & Human Services (“DHHS”) enterprise integrated case management system (eICM) shares data across more than 70 DHHS programs, allowing staff to better understand their clients, more efficiently serve them, and improve their outcomes.