Earnings

Earnings

Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) had the largest effects on long-term annual earnings (an average of $690 per year). PRIDE sought to move cash assistance recipients with severe mental and physical health challenges into employment by providing integrated health and employment training services as well as help securing and maintaining employment.

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

Employment

Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) had the largest effects on long-term employment (an average of 4 percentage points). PRIDE sought to move cash assistance recipients with severe mental and physical health challenges into employment by providing integrated health and employment training services as well as help securing and maintaining employment.

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

Public benefit receipt

Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) had the largest effects on long-term benefit receipt (decreasing the amount of public benefits received by $242 per year). PRIDE sought to move cash assistance recipients with severe mental and physical health challenges into employment by providing integrated health and employment training services as well as help securing and maintaining employment.

Effects on long-term benefit receipt

Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE)
$242

Decrease long-term benefit receipt

Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies Project

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To further build the evidence around effective strategies for helping individuals with low incomes find and sustain employment, OPRE contracted with Mathematica to conduct the Next Generation of Enhanced Employment Strategies (NextGen) Project. This project will identify and test innovative, promising employment interventions designed to help individuals facing complex challenges secure a pathway toward economic independence. These challenges may be physical and mental health conditions, substance misuse, a criminal history, or limited work skills and experience.

Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE)

Intervention (standard name)
Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE)

Participants received a medical evaluation and were assigned to PRIDE if they were deemed not healthy enough to participate in standard welfare-to-work programs, but too healthy to claim federal disability benefits. After an initial assessment by PRIDE staff, a participant was assigned to either a work-based education (WBE) or vocational rehabilitation (VR) track. The WBE track consisted of three days of unpaid work experience and two days of classroom-based adult basic education per week for a total of 35 hours of WBE activities per week over six months.

Public Health Nursing

Intervention (standard name)
Public Health Nursing

Participants met with a public health nurse when they started the program to receive a comprehensive health assessment. The nurse also acted as a case manager to support and coordinate access to care, as well as to help participants manage and prevent diseases through primary care or referrals and health education. Participants were also given the opportunity to attend a two-hour information session about Medicaid. The program lasted nine months, and participants checked in with the nurse after three, six, and nine months.

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