Program participants were sorted into services based on education and college readiness at enrollment. Adults with a high school diploma or GED whose Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) reflected a 9th-to-12th-grade score equivalency received case management and college readiness training in preparation for subsequent enrollment in occupational training. If participants with a high-school-level TABE score were not enrolled in school and did not have a high school diploma or GED, they received accelerated GED preparation and occupational training simultaneously. Out-of-school participants with TABE scores below a high school level and without a GED or high school diploma received adult basic literacy education and English-as-a-second-language services alongside case management.
The primary population was adults with low job skills and low college readiness who were living along the U.S. Texas–Mexico border.
Project GROW provided education and occupational training to adults with low job skills and low college readiness at five Workforce Investment Boards spanning the U.S. Texas–Mexico border. The intervention aimed to improve participants’ employment opportunities.