Generating Opportunities to Attain Lifelong Success (GOALS) provided intensive case management followed by occupational skills training, job placement services with dedicated employment liaisons and postemployment services, targeting SNAP participants who were work registrants.GOALS began with a stabilization phase of intensive case management that included barrier identification and developing an individualized action plan to address mental health, substance use, basic education, and/or life skills needs, as indicated. This phase was followed by train, place, and sustain phases, where participants could be referred to occupational skills training, if indicated, and receive job placement assistance and post-employment supports from employer liaisons.
The stabilize phase took about 8 weeks to complete, with the basic education or life skills trainings typically taking 5 to 8 weeks and requiring full-day attendance for 4 days per week. In the train phase, the occupational skills training programs lasted four to six weeks. Case management after the stabilize phase included at least monthly meetings and continued up through job placement.
The study was conducted in 35 counties statewide in Kansas.
Generating Opportunities to Attain Lifelong Success (GOALS) provided intensive case management followed by occupational skills training, job placement services with dedicated employment liaisons and postemployment services, targeting SNAP participants who were work registrants.