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Tests the Short Employment Hope Scale (EHS-14) in capturing the state of a person’s psychological empowerment, motivation, skills and resources, and goal-orientation as a factor in workforce development.

Offers an overview of career and technical education (CTE) as an educational strategy for providing young people with the academic, technical, and employability skills and knowledge to pursue postsecondary training or higher education and enter a...

Provides information and guidelines to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals implement personnel assessments as part of employment or career-related decision-making processes.

Measures the impact of the Youth Opportunity (YO) Initiative in targeting distressed neighborhoods throughout the U.S., and highlights effective practices for serving youth.

Examines the effectiveness of the Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (Project GATE) in creating businesses and improving participants’ well-being during a 60-month observation period.

This resource provides an overview of the practices of the Individual Placement and Support model developed by the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, which are aimed at promoting veteran employment.

Two community colleges in Ohio tested the use of enhanced student services for low-income students: this paper shares the results.

Measures progress and challenges in implementing the workforce and UI provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"In order to explore community college blended learning programs (in which instruction occurs both in person and online, also known as 'hybrid' learning) as a strategy for better serving community college students, this paper describes multiple...

The Self-Sufficiency Project offered a temporary financial incentive to single parent, long-term income assistance (IA) recipients who left income assistance for full-time work. This demonstration project was designed to test a policy innovation...