Our Work
Projects
May 2025
The Heldrich Center is conducting research for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Comprehensive Climate Action Plan. The Heldrich Center has been engaged by the New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center to assist with the development of a workforce planning analysis for inclusion in the action plan. The workforce planning analysis will be developed […]
March 2025
Evaluation of a New Jersey program designed to increase awareness and access to worker benefits programs, including paid family and medical leave benefits, earned sick leave, and unemployment insurance. The Heldrich Center will focus on understanding the program’s implementation, the organizational capacity and program support of grantees, and the program’s impact on worker benefit programs. […]
January 2025
Data analysis to understand how career and technical education completers from the classes of 2014 and 2015 transition into postsecondary education and the workforce.
December 2024
Process evaluation of Middlesex County's current healthcare workforce development plans and programs and development of a strategic plan for the development and implementation of innovative workforce development initiatives.
December 2024
Public Workforce Development System • Safety Net and Income Supports • Unemployment and Reemployment • Workforce Policy and Programs
Development of metrics and quantitative analyses to assess the equitability of Unemployment Insurance compensation.
December 2024
Gender, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Research • Qualitative Analysis • Safety Net and Income Supports • • Trauma and Trauma-informed Practice • Work and Family Life
In-depth examination of the challenges low-income mothers face in achieving financial and family stability.
December 2024
Research studies on the employment of people with disabilities.
December 2024
K-12 Education and Training • Postsecondary Education and Training • Qualitative Analysis • Quantitative Data Analysis • Safety Net and Income Supports •
Measurement and assessment of the performance of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Workforce Partnership Initiative.
December 2024
Research support for New Jersey’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
December 2024
Disability Employment • Program Evaluation • Qualitative Analysis • Quantitative Data Analysis • Workforce Policy and Programs
Evaluation of seven pilot projects aimed at moving employers to a competitive integrated employment work model.
December 2024
Disability Employment • Program Design and Development • Qualitative Analysis • Quantitative Data Analysis •
Evaluation of grant program designed to promote the health and well-being of people with disabilities in their communities.
June 2024
Project examining the shortage of teachers in New Jersey.












