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The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership helped unemployed individuals prepare for and secure advanced manufacturing jobs.

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The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership helped unemployed individuals prepare for and secure advanced manufacturing jobs.

As part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, participants worked with a case manager to complete short-term training aligned with their employment and education goals to prepare for and secure in-demand, advanced manufacturing jobs. These jobs included team assembler, electromechanical maintenance technician, welder, computer numerical control operator, or bioscience/pharmaceutical technician. Participants could gain manufacturing work experience through entry-level internships or part-time jobs and could receive assistance obtaining a National Career Readiness Certificate and enrolling in a Certified Production Technician program. Participants who earned certificates could enroll in an associate’s degree program and participate in an apprenticeship with a partner employer. Participants could receive work-readiness training focused on soft skills. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership was offered to unemployed individuals and new labor force entrants interested in advanced manufacturing jobs in greater Cincinnati, OH. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership was part of the Partners for a Competitive Workforce program, which also offered the Health Careers Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati.

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 about 40 employers, 8 educational institutions, and 8 community-based organizations.
Populations and employment barriers: Unemployed
Intervention services: Case management, Education, Soft skills training, Training, Occupational or sectoral training, Apprenticeships, Work experience, 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 $4,121 per year 0.197 28101
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Supported favorable 8% (in percentage points) 0.185 42975
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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  • 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