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Documents factors that contribute to unemployment of ex-offender and examines the role of self-efficacy in employment readiness with a focus on Social Cognitive Career Theory.

Details a demonstration project’s initial results in providing ex-offenders with workforce readiness training, career counseling, and an intensive follow-up process, to prevent recidivism and to support the transition back into civic society.

Discusses a new skills-building model designed to help low-income adults prepare for, enter, and succeed in quality jobs in high-demand fields with opportunities for career growth.

Using data from an experimental evaluation of Job Corps, this article examines earning potential and longer term program impacts on participants.

Using data from The High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI), this report documents early training outcomes, impacts, and implementation structures of nine grantees located across the country.

Explores the practices, challenges, and policy implications of the New York City’s College Access and Success Initiative (CAS), which focuses on improving the odds of success for young people who have graduated from failing high schools, are...

Quantitative study of the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) that analyzed existing administrative data and customer satisfaction survey data for PY 2009 and 2010, and (2) a process study based on interviews with national SCSEP...

Examined services and outcomes at five school districts who had received DOL funding to improve services to youth who are involved, have been involved or are at risk of involvement with gangs or the juvenile justice system.

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

Seeks to empirically connect privatization to TANF program outcomes through multi-level models that incorporate and estimate both individual-level and contextual factors within the state of Florida.