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How do you know if your program or initiative is effective? How do you gather proven practices or implement evidence-based practices? To respond to these questions, WSS presents three research and evaluation resources! The following resources...

Describes how Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program sites used performance management information to develop and improve their programs, based on a review of grantee performance progress reports, a survey of HPOG program directors,...

Serves as a guide for government entities and social service providers who are considering implementing a Pay for Success project; answers common questions about funding mechanisms and highlights associated benefits and risks.

This toolkit defines opportunistic experiments as randomized controlled trials of a policy or program an organization already plans to implement; showcases their advantages over more traditional research experiments; explains their potential value...

Discusses the composition of three states’ workforce data systems and the states’ processes for making data available to outside stakeholders while also ensuring the confidentiality of individuals in the data systems.

This report describes strategies for expanding and sustaining successful Early College Expansion Partnership (ECEP) programs based on the experiences of three school districts in Texas and Colorado. Results from external evaluations and insights...

Forward Cities is a cross-city learning collaborative designed to foster inclusive innovation and entrepreneurial development in traditionally underserved neighborhoods in Cleveland, OH, Detroit, MI, Durham, NC, and New Orleans, LA. The Urban...

The Opportunity Works Implementation report describes the "Back on Track" framework, a multi-phase intervention to help "opportunity youth—" young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or meaningfully employed—into pathways to postsecondary...

Describes how workforce development and jail staff members collaborated across their distinct organizational cultures in the early implementation of jail-based American Job Centers funded through Linking Employment Activities Pre-release grants.

Provides project leaders with step-by-step guidance to achieve sustainable outcomes.