Earnings

Earnings

Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures (BHBF) had the largest effects on long-term annual earnings (an average of $2,238 per year). BHBF aimed to improve economic self-sufficiency among youth receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) through person-centered planning (PCP), employment and education services, case management, financial work incentives, work-based experience, and job development.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.
Employment

Employment

Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures (BHBF) had the largest effects on long-term employment (an average of 3 percentage points). BHBF aimed to improve economic self-sufficiency among youth receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) through person-centered planning (PCP), employment and education services, case management, financial work incentives, work-based experience, and job development.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.
Public benefit receipt

Public benefit receipt

Transitional Employment Training had the largest effects on long-term benefit receipt (decreasing the amount of public benefits received by $0 per year). Transitional Employment Training was a work training program for people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI). It aimed to help them participate in the labor market by providing job training and transition-to-work support services.

Effects on long-term benefit receipt

Transitional Employment Training
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Decrease long-term benefit receipt

Education and training

Education and training

Transition WORKS had the largest effects on education and training (increasing the attainment of a degree or credential by an average of 28 percentage points). Transition WORKS aimed to empower youth receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and improve their economic self-sufficiency through a series of workshops focused on self-determination, education and employment services, case management, financial incentives, work-based experience, and job development.

These are the five interventions with the largest effects. See Exhibit 1 for all interventions.

Families Achieving Success Today (FAST)

Intervention (standard name)
Families Achieving Success Today (FAST)

FAST provided extra services to participants who qualified for FSS. FAST integrated the IPS supported employment model into the FSS program to provide participants with individualized job search assistance, job development services, and related supports based on their preferences and abilities. FAST also integrated motivational interviewing and a vocational assessment into the FSS program alongside IPS. To better support FAST participants, the caseload of FAST case managers was reduced to 50 active cases from an average of 75 to 100.

Transition WORKS

Intervention (standard name)
Transition WORKS

Transition WORKS participants completed an initial assessment and then participated in two person-centered workshops focused on self-determination (referred to as "self-determination workshops") in which they set goals and began to plan for their transition to employment.

Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures (BHBF)

Intervention (standard name)
Broadened Horizons, Brighter Futures (BHBF)

BHBF was based on the framework developed for the Youth Transition Demonstration funded by the SSA, which focused on making youth with disabilities as economically self-sufficient as possible during their transition to adulthood. BHBF participants met regularly with the community employment development specialists (CEDS), who helped develop and oversee a PCP process, consisting of exercises that helped participants identify their goals in education, emplo

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