Funded by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families, this project implemented long-term (36- and 72-month) follow-up studies to the Federally-sponsored Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Impact Study and the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Project. The goal of these studies was to rigorously evaluate the longer-term effectiveness of career pathways approaches to education and training. These studies complemented and augmented the HPOG Impact Study and PACE project studies, both of which examined outcomes at 15 months after entry into the study, as well as the Career Pathways Intermediate Outcomes Study, which examined outcomes at 36 months after entry into the HPOG Impact Study or PACE. Abt Associates was the prime contractor for this effort. MEF led the studies for San Diego, Seattle-King County, and Washington State I-BEST.
