Program Evaluation

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June 6, 2022

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Process_Evaluation_of_the_Integration_of_Title_I_and_Title_II.pdf (484.42 KB)

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Examines the services offered in New Jersey for two programs that are part of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The Title I program covers workforce development activities, including job training and services to individuals who are either unemployed or underemployed. The Title II program focuses on adult educational and literacy services, including basic skills, secondary education, and literacy. Examines the degree to which services under these programs are integrated in New Jersey. Also identifies the challenges local areas in the state are facing when implementing various forms of Title I and Title II services integration.

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New report examines integration of workforce development and adult literacy services in New Jersey.

Evaluation of the National Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)

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Evaluation of the National Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN)

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Disability Employment

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Published Date

October 3, 2019

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Current

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U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy through the Cornell Yang-Tan Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations

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In 2019, the U.S. Office of Disability Employment Policy awarded Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ Yang-Tan Institute a four-year agreement to operate an employer-focused disability and employment research, policy development, and technical assistance center. The Heldrich Center is one of several partners in the Cornell consortium. The Heldrich Center serves as the independent evaluator for the major activities in the EARN project over the course of four consecutive years. The primary purpose of the evaluation activities under the EARN consortium is to develop data-driven feedback loops so improvements can be continuously made to improve outcomes, and ultimately the overall goal of the project: to increase the capacity of employers to recruit, hire, retain, and advance people with disabilities

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The Heldrich Center serves as the independent evaluator for the major activities in the EARN project over the course of four consecutive years.

Process Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Services in Camden County, New Jersey

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Process Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Services in Camden County, New Jersey

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Social Policy

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Published Date

March 22, 2014

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Funded By

New Jersey Department of Human Services

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In 2002, the Heldrich Center conducted a comprehensive process evaluation of welfare-to-work services in Camden County, New Jersey to profile the array of services provided in the county and to identify areas where the system could be strengthened. The evaluation featured extensive, in-depth site visits to all service providers in Camden County, focus groups with recipients, in-depth interviews with program staff and stakeholders, analysis of administrative data, and a telephone follow-up survey of individuals receiving services.

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Evaluation of welfare-to-work services in Camden County, New Jersey.

Evaluation of Youth Programs Funded by the Lucent Technologies Foundation

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Evaluation of Youth Programs Funded by the Lucent Technologies Foundation

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Published Date

January 1, 1998

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Funded By

Lucent Technologies Foundation

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From 1998 to 2001, the Heldrich Center served as a primary evaluator for the Lucent Technologies Foundation, performing regular evaluations of the foundation’s three primary youth and education grant programs. These programs included an ongoing summer program for high school students in Newark, New Jersey; a grant program that provided funding to a wide variety of youth education and development programs in New Jersey; and a national grant program that funded multi-cultural awareness programs for high school students. Working closely with the foundation’s staff, the Heldrich Center developed a common evaluation framework and strategy to provide the foundation with information that it needed to make informed decisions about its grant programs and individual grantees. The strategy included pre- and post-participation surveys for youth, interviews with program staff and stakeholders, and in-depth site visits to selected programs. The in-depth site visits included focus groups with students and interviews with program staff.

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Evaluations of youth and education grant programs.

Evaluation of the New Jersey Customized Training Program

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Evaluation of the New Jersey Customized Training Program

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K-12 Education and Training

Postsecondary Education and Training

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Funded By

New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission

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The Heldrich Center completed a series of evaluations of the New Jersey Customized Training program, which provides financial assistance to companies and groups of companies to help them to provide training to employed workers. The center’s evaluations used a telephone survey of companies receiving a grant, a telephone survey of individuals receiving training funded by a grant, and extensive in-depth site visits to determine the effect of the Customized Training program on individual companies and their employees. The site visits included structured interviews with senior staff of each company, human resources staff, and frontline supervisors as well as focus groups and interviews with employees who received training.

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This project conducted a series of evaluations of the New Jersey Customized Training program.

Evaluation of the EmployMe! Training Program for People with Disabilities

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Evaluation of the EmployMe! Training Program for People with Disabilities

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Disability Employment

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Published Date

January 1, 2007

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Conducted for the New Jersey Institute of Technology with funding from the Kessler Foundation

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From 2007 to 2009, the Heldrich Center conducted an evaluation of the EmployMe! program established by the New Jersey Institute of Technology under a grant from the Kessler Foundation. The EmployMe! program provided training to individuals with disabilities to help them obtain information technology jobs. The center’s evaluation featured a quasi-experimental design that compared the employment outcomes of participants with those of similar individuals who did not participate in the program. The Heldrich Center also used a questionnaire to obtain feedback from individuals participating in the program.

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Evaluation of training program for persons with disabilities.

Evaluation of the Newark/Essex County, New Jersey Construction Careers Consortium Pre-Apprenticeship Program

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Evaluation of the Newark/Essex County, New Jersey Construction Careers Consortium Pre-Apprenticeship Program

Topic

Industries and Sectors

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Published Date

January 1, 2006

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Funded By

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

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Evaluation of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium

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From 2006 to 2007, the Heldrich Center conducted an evaluation of a program in Essex County, New Jersey that prepares women and minorities for apprenticeships in the construction trades. The evaluation included both a process evaluation (including structured interviews with stakeholders and program staff and focus groups and questionnaires with participants) and an outcome evaluation. The center used individual-level state administrative Unemployment Insurance wage records and data on basic skill levels to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in preparing students for careers in construction. The center also used probabilistic matching techniques to create a comparison group from New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Employment Services administrative data.

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Findings from the Evaluation of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium

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Evaluation of program designed to prepare women and and minorities for apprenticeships in the construction trades.

Evaluation of the New Jersey Individual Training Grant Program for Dislocated Workers

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Evaluation of the New Jersey Individual Training Grant Program for Dislocated Workers

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Unemployment and Reemployment

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Published Date

January 1, 2000

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Funded By

New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission

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In 2000, the Heldrich Center completed a quasi-experimental evaluation that used Unemployment Insurance wage records to measure the employment experiences of dislocated workers who received a training grant from the State of New Jersey. These outcomes were compared to the experiences of similar group of dislocated workers who did not receive training. The outcome analysis was supplemented by a telephone survey of individuals receiving an Individual Training grant to determine their perceptions of the effect of the training.

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Evaluation to measure the employment experiences of dislocated workers who received a training grant from the State of New Jersey.

Evaluation of New Jersey Parent Education Information Resource Centers

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Evaluation of New Jersey Parent Education Information Resource Centers

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K-12 Education and Training

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Published Date

January 1, 2012

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Funded By

Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education

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