Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project

This project, for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Labor was a multi-site, multi-year effort to rigorously test programs designed to enhance employment, family functioning, and child well-being outcomes for current or former welfare recipients or other low-income parents who are hard to employ. Project activities included site recruitment, technical assistance, implementation and process analyses, impact analyses, and cost-benefit analyses. MEF was a subcontractor to MDRC under this contract.

PUBLICATIONS:
A Two-Generational Child-Focused Program Enhanced with Employment Services: Eighteen-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
Enhanced Early Head Start with Employment Services: 42-Month Impacts from the Kansas and Missouri Sites of the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
POLICY AREAS:
Career Pathways and Postsecondary Education and Training | Early Care and Education | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
STAFF:
Mary Farrell | Mike Fishman