EVALUATION OF THE ENHANCED SERVICES FOR THE HARD-TO EMPLOY DEMONSTRATIONS
Project: EVALUATION OF THE ENHANCED SERVICES FOR THE HARD-TO-EMPLOY DEMONSTRATIONS
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through MDRC and the Urban Institute
IPS Staff: Demetra Smith Nightingale
Purpose and Approach
The U.S. Department of Health and Services is sponsoring a series of program demonstrations to test the effectiveness of potentially innovative strategies for serving hard-to-employ welfare recipients. Beginning in 2002, the evaluation team, led by prime contractor MDR C and subcontractors the Urban Institute and the Lewin Group, canvassed the nation to identify potential demonstration sites, developed a prototypical evaluation design, and selected preliminary demonstration sites and programs. Over the next five years, the evaluation team, including IPS, is working with the selected demonstration projects, providing technical assistance as needed to implement the experimental demonstration design,and evaluating the projects in terms of the net impacts on employment, earnings, and welfare receipt of participants
and the well-being of their children.
Results and Publications
Forthcoming.
