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Good Transitions provided noncustodial parents who were low income with subsidized employment combined with case management and training to help them connect to stable employment.

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Good Transitions provided noncustodial parents who were low income with subsidized employment combined with case management and training to help them connect to stable employment.

After two days of initial skills assessment, Good Transitions participants were placed in a subsidized job at Goodwill Industries stores. An on-site job coach provided feedback and support while program staff provided case management and job development services. After one month at the Goodwill position, Good Transitions placed participants in a new position, with less on-site support and coaching than the Goodwill position, for about three months. During this time, Good Transitions continued to provide case management and job development services and also provided life-skills workshops, occupation-specific training, and a weekly job club to help participants find unsubsidized work. After three months at the second subsidized position, participants would either enter an unsubsidized job or continue to receive education, training, and job development services until they found an unsubsidized job. The program was designed to move participants into unsubsidized employment within four months. Participants were noncustodial parents who were low income and who had child support orders, had passed a drug test, and were registered with Selective Service (applicable to males only).

Good Transitions was implemented in Atlanta, GA, and was evaluated as part of an evaluation that also tested subsidized employment programs implemented in Milwaukee, WI (Supporting Families Through Work), San Francisco, CA (TransitionsSF), Syracuse, NY (Parent Success Initiative), Fort Worth, TX (Next STEP), and Indianapolis, IN (RecycleForce).

Year evaluation began: 2012

Populations and employment barriers: Parents

Intervention services: Case management, Training, Occupational or sectoral training, Soft skills training, Subsidized employment, Employment coaching, Job development/job placement

Setting(s): Urban only

Intervention services:

Case management, Training (Occupational or sectoral training, Soft skills training), Work and work-based learning (Subsidized employment), Work readiness activities (Employment coaching, Job development/job placement)

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Effectiveness Rating and Effect By Outcome Domain

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Outcome domain	Term	Effect in 2018 dollars and percentages	Effect in standard deviations	Sample size
Increase earnings	Short-term	$1,632 per year	0.08	996
	Long-term	$962 per year	0.05	996
	Very long-term
Increase employment	Short-term	20% (in percentage points)	0.49	996
	Long-term	4% (in percentage points)	0.10	996
	Very long-term
Decrease benefit receipt	Short-term
	Long-term	$-347 per year	-0.13	802
	Very long-term
Increase education and training	All measurement periods	15% (in percentage points)	0.31	812

* This intervention was assessed as supported for this domain, meaning it achieved one or more statistically significant, favorable effects. However, the intervention has an average effect size that is unfavorable because the average includes all effects in this domain - both statistically significant and favorable effects and statistically insignificant but unfavorable effects.

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Studies of this Intervention

Study Quality Rating	Study Counts per Rating
High	1