Evaluation/Best Practices

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    • Evaluation of Disability Benefits 101 Information Services

      Jan 22, 2013

      Details findings from a process evaluation by JBS International, Inc. of Disability Benefits 101 (DB101) Information Services programs in California, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, and Arizona. These web-based programs are designed to assist people with disabilities by improving their access to employment and disability benefits. Describes key features of the DB101 Web sites in each state and the implementation process used by each state, and discusses the proposed and actual users of each site.

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    • Evaluation of the New Jersey Workforce Development Partnership Program: Customized Training Program

      May 28, 2009

      Explores the perceived effect of Customized Training (CT) grant – awarded under New Jersey’s Workforce Development Partnership Program – on recipient companies and their employees, examines the wage and employment outcomes of selected individuals who received training, and makes a series of recommendations that could be used to inform future CT grant decisions.

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    • Evaluation of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium

      Sep 07, 2007

      Explores the successes and challenges of the Newark/Essex Construction Careers Consortium Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program, which prepares women, minorities, and the economically disadvantaged for careers in the construction industry and strives to improve the employment prospects and earnings of Essex County’s low-income residents.

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    • Tools for Navigating Today’s Labor Market: A Vital Role for States

      Nov 28, 2005

      Explores the role state governments can play in helping individuals navigate the labor market; examines two Web-based resources – created by The State of New Jersey and the Heldrich Center – that provide students, job seekers, and workers with the information they need to make informed decisions about careers and further education; and illustrates key lessons for creating such resources.

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    • September 11th Fund Employment Assistance Program: Performance Outcomes

      Jul 26, 2005

      Examines expected and actual performance outcomes from the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program, designed to enable eligible dislocated workers to connect with employment services, career counselors, job placement opportunities, education, training, and other resources.

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    • Trying to Become the Person I Was Before: 9/11 Displaced Workers and the Employment Assistance Program

      Jun 30, 2005

      Explores the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program (EAP) by providing information on the following: profiles of participants, description of the economic state pre- and post-9/11, services offered by the EAP, and post-program employment outcomes.

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    • Understanding Occupational and Skill Demand in New Jersey’s Utilities Industry Electric, Gas, Water and Sewer, and Local Telephone Services

      Jun 30, 2005

      Discusses trends that have changed the utilities workforce; summarizes the skill, knowledge, and educational requirements of key occupations in gas, electric, water and sewer, and telephone services; and identifies strategies for meeting the workforce challenges facing the industry.

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    • Service Activity Report for Participants Enrolled in the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program

      Mar 24, 2005

      Provides a service profile of the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program (EAP) by defining and describing the types of services available to EAP participants, analyzing how the different groups of participants took advantage of the array of services, and showing the similarities and differences among service providers. Statistical tables on the services provided to participants are cross-referenced by gender, age, primary language, income, occupation, residence, and service provider are also presented in detail.

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    • AFTERSHOCK: Serving 9/11 Displaced Workers

      Nov 22, 2004

      Examines the proceedings from a symposium held to provide an overview of the September 11th Fund’s Employment Assistance Program, analyze its strengths and weaknesses, hear from national workforce experts on the program’s impact, as well as identify key lessons learned for future workforce policy.

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    • Helping Job Seekers Who Have Limited Basic Skills

      Nov 05, 2004

      Provides program planners and frontline staff at public and private career centers with an introduction to the steps involved in planning, implementing, and improving a system of services that helps job seekers who have limited basic skills to meet workplace skill requirements as well as get and keep rewarding, financially sustaining jobs.

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