101036.04-Study of SNAP Works

Study Name

Study of SNAP Works 2.0

Study Sharepoint ID

101036.04

Evaluation name

Evaluation of Pilot Projects to Promote Work and Increase State Accountability in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Expanding Opportunities & Reducing Barriers to Work: Georgia

This study received a high study quality rating because it is a low-attrition randomized controlled trial with no known issues that suggest the findings cannot be attributed to the intervention.

Design

Randomized controlled trial

Services

Performance- or behavior-based financial incentives

Transportation assistance

Job readiness

Job search assistance

Case management

Populations targeted

Public benefits recipients

Unemployed

Settings in which the intervention was studied

Tested in multiple settings

Demographics

Subgroups

Subgroup data - Female

Subgroup data - Male

Subgroup data - White

Subgroup data - Black

Percent Young Adults

21.30

Percent female

47.70

Percent Male

52.20

Percent No high school diploma or GED

21.00

Percent With a high school diploma or GED

79.00

Percent Employed

6.30

Percent Unemployed

94.00

Percent welfare population

100.00

Percent Asian

0.80

Percent Black or African American

79.50

Percent Hispanic or Latino of any race

3.20

Percent White not Hispanic

13.00

Percent More than one race

2.90

Percent another race

0.60

Percent Adults

78.70

Percent Old Adults

0.10

Percent Postsecondary credential

22.00

Mean age

33.20

Study Characteristics

Group formation formatted

The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) enrolled 5,000 SNAP participants in the pilot, randomizing roughly half to the SNAP Works 2.0 group and the other half to the control group.

Study timing formatted

Three years

Study funding formatted

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Nutrition Service, Contract Number AG-3198-B-15-0002/12319818F0080

Sample Characteristics

SNAP Works 2.0 targeted able bodied adults without dependents.

Implementing organization formatted

Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, Georgia Department of Labor - Local Workforce Investment Agencies (DeKalb Workforce Services, Atlanta Regional Commission, Coastal Workforce Services)

Program history

SNAP Works 2.0 was one of 10 pilot programs across the country authorized and funded by the Agricultural Act of 2014 to offer enhanced SNAP E&T services to help connect SNAP participants to employment opportunities.

Treatment condition formatted

SNAP Works 2.0 offered access to job search training and assistance, career planning and case management, support services, financial incentives, and access to education and occupational skills training opportunities. Services were mandatory.

Comparison condition formatted

The control group was eligible for existing SNAP E&T services and any employment and training services available in the community. Georgia's existing SNAP E&T program consisted of a mandatory, four-week independent job search activity, and provided some limited support services such as transportation assistance.

Mandatory services formatted

Job search assistance

Timing of study formatted

Average length of participation was 23 days

Program funding formatted

Federal SNAP Pilot Funding

Setting details formatted

10 counties in and near the Atlanta and Savannah metropolitan areas (Cherokee, DeKalb, Douglas, Clayton, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Henry, Bulloch, Chatham, and Glynn counties)

Delivered by public or private entity?

Public

Secondary domains examined

The study reports impacts on food security, health, well-being, and housing status.

Citations/manuscripts

Earliest publication year

2021

Most recent publication year

2022

Manuscripts

101036.04_01_Bigelow

101036.04_02_Bigelow