JOBS-PLUS Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families: Program Components, Policies, and Activities

Program Components, Policies, and Activities Evaluated

Employment activities

  • Job readiness activities
  • Job search
  • Job placement
  • On the job training
  • Job development
  • Employment Activities - misc.

Financial incentives

  • Earnings disregards
  • Financial Incentives - misc.

Program requirements

  • Community or alternative work

Social/Support services

  • Child care
  • Transportation
  • Case management
  • Multiple services in single location
  • Enhanced social and health services
  • Social/Support Services - misc.
  • Community/social services
  • Community service exchange program
  • Expanded hours in community centers
  • Peer support sessions

Administration/Implementation

  • Development of partnerships with private organizations
  • Administration/Implementation - misc.

Educational activities

  • Educational Activities - misc.

Financial disincentives/Sanctions

  • Financial Disincentives/Sanctions - misc.

Housing

  • Other housing assistance program (e.g. no-interest loans)
  • Housing - misc.
Variation in program components across sites? Yes
Notes on program components Employment activities: Sites will adopt the "best practices" that other evaluations have shown to move welfare recipients into work.

Financial disincentive/sanctions: Sites may have disincentives such as reduced welfare grants or limits on public housing tenure for failure to participate in employment services.

Financial incentives: Site will change the incentive to work so that income is increased rather than reduced as a result of employment.

Time limits: Sites may use time limits as an incentive to participate in employment activities.

Program operations: Program operations will be studied to identify the most successful components in various sites.

Social/Support Services: Efforts might build on existing assets of the communities, such as informal social networks, in order to increase residents’ knowledge about work opportunities, to convey and reinforce program information on lessons on how to prepare to work and look for work, etc.