Why are some services nested within services?

The Pathways Clearinghouse created a list of potential services and uses that list across the website and products. Some services are nested within other services. For example, occupational or sectoral training is nested within training, because it represents a type of training. The higher-level category of training includes other types of training, in addition to occupational or sectoral training.

Why are the groups of services used in the Pathways Clearinghouse meta-analyses and Evidence Snapshots different than the ones that are used on the website?

The Pathways Clearinghouse maintains a list of services that we use to characterize interventions and conduct analyses. This list is located on the website within Find Interventions that Work, under the filter “Select services the intervention should provide.” The list nests some of the services underneath other services, to show services that are part of a broader service category. A version of the list is also included  in the Protocol for the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse: Methods and Standards.

Work Experience and Work-Based Learning

Introduction

Work experience and work-based learning are two related strategies for helping people with low incomes improve employment and earnings outcomes. Work experience and work-based learning could include paid or unpaid work or learning experiences in a work setting, such as internships or community service jobs. Because interventions providing work experience are a subset of work and work-based learning interventions, this Evidence Snapshot summarizes the evidence on both of these types of interventions.

Employment Retention Services

Introduction

Employment retention services interventions offer a combination of services intended to help maintain employment and promote career advancement among people, often those with low incomes, who already have a job. This Evidence Snapshot summarizes what rigorous research tells us about nine interventions that used employment retention services as their primary service and the interventions’ impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training.