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The Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati helped unemployed individuals prepare for and secure health care careers.

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The Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati helped unemployed individuals prepare for and secure health care careers. 

As part of the Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, unemployed individuals interested in health careers, such as nursing, rehabilitation, health information technology, or biotechnology, worked with an advisor to meet their career goals. Participants could receive a variety of trainings and services based on these goals. Participants were offered trainings on soft skills and financial literacy, in addition to job search assistance and work-readiness activities. The program also assisted participants in obtaining a National Career Readiness Certificate and enrolling in courses to receive a GED. The Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati developed training programs with employers to further develop participants’ skills and knowledge. To increase employee retention and help with recruitment, employers provided participants with tuition reimbursement or prepaid tuition for participation in these training programs. The Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati was offered to unemployed individuals interested in health care careers in greater Cincinnati, OH. The Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati was part of the Partners for a Competitive Workforce program, which also offered the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and the Construction Sector Partnership.

Year evaluation began: 2010
Implementing organization(s): Partners for a Competitive Workforce collaborative, a regional partnership of Workforce Investment Boards, employers, community colleges, and service providers, including the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Great Oaks Institute of Technology, and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Greater Cincinnati.
Populations and employment barriers: Unemployed
Intervention services: Education, Financial education, Soft skills training, Training, Occupational or sectoral training, Work readiness activities, Job search assistance
Setting(s): Tested in multiple settings

Effectiveness rating and effect by outcome domain

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Outcome domain Term Effectiveness rating Effect in 2018 dollars and percentages Effect in standard deviations Sample size
Increase earnings Short-term Supported favorable $7,091 per year 0.339 34291
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Supported favorable 13% (in percentage points) 0.313 47693
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Decrease benefit receipt Short-term No evidence to assess support
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase education and training All measurement periods No evidence to assess support
* 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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  • Well-supported Well-supported   
  • Supported  Supported   
  • Not supported  Not supported   
  • Mixed support  Mixed support   
  • Insufficient evidence  Insufficient evidence   
  • No evidence  No evidence
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Sample characteristics

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Studies of this intervention

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Study quality rating Study counts per rating
Moderate Moderate 1