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Summary

California Bridge Academy provided enhanced SNAP Employment and Training Services, including 18 months of intensive case management, GED preparation classes, referrals to occupational skills training or postsecondary education, subsidized employment, job search assistance, support services, and financial incentives for upgrading skill and remaining in services.

California Bridge Academy provided enhanced SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) Services, including 18 months of intensive case management, GED preparation classes, referrals to occupational skills training or postsecondary education, subsidized employment, job search assistance, support services, and financial incentives for upgrading skill and remaining in services.

California Bridge Academy enhanced existing SNAP E&T program services by adding work-based learning, GED preparation classes, and enhanced support services as well as financial incentives for completing education and training and remaining in services. Participants met with a career and family navigator to complete an intake assessment and create an individual client and family plan.

Participants were required to complete job readiness workshops in order to be referred to education, occupational skills training, or subsidized employment opportunities.

The program targeted SNAP work registrants who were unemployed or underemployed and faced barriers to employment. The program was evaluated in Fresno County, CA.

101036.01-Study of California
Populations and employment barriers: Adults (age 25+), Public benefits recipients
101036.02-Study of California
Populations and employment barriers: Adults (age 25+), Public benefits recipients

Effectiveness rating and effect by outcome domain

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Outcome domain Term Effectiveness rating Effect in 2024 dollars and percentages Effect in standard deviations Sample size
Increase earnings Short-term Not supported favorable $547 per year 0.015 5692
Long-term Not supported favorable $109 per year 0.003 5692
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Not supported favorable 1% (in percentage points) 0.036 5692
Long-term Not supported unfavorable 0% (in percentage points) -0.002 5692
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Decrease benefit receipt Short-term Mixed support favorable $-89 per year -0.026 5692
Long-term Not supported unfavorable $3 per year 0.001 5692
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase education and training All measurement periods No evidence to assess support
* This intervention was assessed as supported for this domain, meaning it achieved one or more statistically significant, favorable effects. However, the intervention has an average effect size that is unfavorable because the average includes all effects in this domain - both statistically significant and favorable effects and statistically insignificant but unfavorable effects.

Effectiveness rating key:

  • Well-supported Well-supported   
  • Supported  Supported   
  • Not supported  Not supported   
  • Mixed support  Mixed support   
  • Insufficient evidence  Insufficient evidence   
  • No evidence  No evidence
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Studies of this intervention

Study quality rating Study counts per rating
High High 2
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Implementation details

Organizations implementing intervention

The program was implemented by Reading and Beyond and the Fresno County Economic Development Corporation.

The information contained here reflects how the intervention was implemented at the time of the evaluation.

Local context

The providers and study site were located in Fresno County, CA.

Characteristics of research participants
Black or African American
13%
White, not Hispanic
15%
Asian
4%
Another race
1%
More than one race
4%
Hispanic or Latino of any race
61%

The race and ethnicity categories may sum to more than 100 percent if the authors reported race and ethnicity separately; in these cases, we report the category White, rather than White, not Hispanic.

State(s) where implemented

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