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Florida Family Transition Program (FTP) Evaluation

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Evaluator(s) MDRC
Investigator(s) Dan Bloom (MDRC)
Barbara Goldman (MDRC)
Sponsor(s) Florida Department of Children and Families (Formerly the Florida State Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services)
Funder(s) Ford Foundation
Florida Department of Children and Families (Formerly the Florida State Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services)
US Department of Health and Human Services
Subcontractor(s) Abt Associates, Inc.
 
Domain Income Security/TANF
Child/Family
Status Completed (final report released)
Duration Feb 1994 - Jun 2000
Type Research and/or Program Evaluation
Goal To evaluate the components of Florida's Family Transition Program (FTP).
Program/Policy Description FTP combines a time limit of 24 or 36 months with an array of enhanced services, parental responsibility requirements, and financial incentives designed to help recipients find and hold jobs. Participation in the program is mandatory for all non-exempt welfare recipients.

Child Outcomes Survey: Enhanced survey developed to obtain information about FTP's impacts on children. Target measures include child care, education, health and safety, and social and emotional adjustment.

Notes Includes enhanced child outcomes survey as part of the Project on State-Level Child Outcomes: Enhancing Measurement of Child Outcomes in State Welfare Evaluations and Other State Data Collections.
 
Last Updated 12/01/00
Type of Summary Reviewed
External Reviewer(s) Dan Bloom (MDRC)
Contact(s) Dan Bloom (dan_bloom@mdrc.org)
MDRC
16 East 34th Street
19th Floor
(T) (212)-532-3200
(F) (212)-684-0832
Publications Department MDRC Publications (publications@mdrc.org)
MDRC
16 East 34th Street
19th Floor
(T) (212) 532-3200
(F) (212) 684-0832

Populations Studied

Target Population Recipients/participants/clients
Applicants
Children
Subgroups Analyzed Single parent families
Children 1-6
Sample Size and Unit 5430 welfare applicants and welfare recipients randomly assigned between 5/94 - 10/96.

Sites Studied

Escambia County (Pensacola, Florida)

 
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