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Synthesis Report: Research Synthesis: Opportunities for Youth
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Findings:
Successful programs often involved a substantial time commitment from participating youth.
Many successful programs involved a job placement component or job search assistance.
Positive impacts tended to be realized in the short term and fade over time.
More information is needed on the replicability of some programs.
Bruno, L., & Pistorino, C. (2007). Youth Opportunity grant initiative: process evaluation final report. Washington, DC: Decision Information Resources, Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Jackson, R., Dixon, R., McCoy, A., Pistorino, C., Zador, P., Thomas, C., … Bruno, L. (2007). Youth Opportunity Grant Initiative: Impact and synthesis report. Houston, TX: Decision Information Resources, Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Learning from the Youth Opportunity experience: Building delivery capacity in distressed communities
Harris, L. (2006). Learning from the Youth Opportunity experience: Building delivery capacity in distressed communities. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Bellis, D. D., & General, A. O. (2005). Youth Opportunity grants: Lessons can be learned from program, but Labor needs to make data available. Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Lewis-Charp, H., Soukamneuth, S. & Goger, A.(2005). Youth Opportunity Grant Initiative: Ethnographic evaluation final report. Houston, TX: Decision Information Resources, Inc.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Hollenbeck, K., & Huang, W-J. (2014). Net impact and benefit-cost estimates of the workforce development system in Washington State. (Upjohn Institute Technical Report No. 13-029). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Retrieved from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research website: http://dx.doi.org/10.17848/tr13-029. [WIA Youth]
Topic Area: Apprenticeship and Work-Based Training
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Heller, S., Pollack, H. A., Ander, R., & Ludwig, J. (2013). Preventing youth violence and dropout: A randomized field experiment (No. w19014). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Skemer, M., Sherman, A., Williams, S., & Cummings, D. (2017). Reengaging New York City's Disconnected Youth Through Work: Implementation and Early Impacts of the Young Adult Internship Program (Report No. 2017-22). Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
- Weigand, A., Manno, M., Leshnick, S., Trekson, L., Geckeler, C., Lewis-Charp, H., Sinicrope, C., Clark, M. & Nicholson, B. (2015) Adapting to local context: Findings from the YouthBuild evaluation implementation study. MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
