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		Tuning In to Local Labor Markets: Findings From the Sectoral Employment Impact Study

by Sheila Maguire, Joshua Freely, Carol Clymer, Maureen Conway, and Deena Schwartz August 2010, 78 pages This study, the first random assignment evaluation of sector-focused training efforts, finds strong impacts for participants, including higher earnings and better jobs (as measured by hourly wages and access to benefits). Click here to view the full report; click here for an accompanying executive summary. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, which funded the evaluation, has compiled a number of resources that highlight the importance of the report's findings. To read a letter from P/PV President Nadya K. Shmavonian about the significance of the study, click here.

P/PV Research Cited, as SECTORS Act Passes House

The SECTORS Act, which will fund sector-based training efforts, passed the House on July 19, following a discussion of P/PV's new report, Tuning In to Local Labor Markets: Findings from the Sectoral Employment Impact Study. P/PV's random assignment study finds that participants of three sector-based programs, run by experienced nonprofit organizations, earned significantly more, worked more and had better access to benefits than the control group. The study also identifies key ingredients that likely contributed to these programs' success. To watch a video of Representative Dave Loebsack (D-IA) discussing the bill, click here.

		Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

by Sarah N. Deschenes, Amy Arbreton, Priscilla M. Little, Carla Herrera, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Heather B. Weiss with Diana Lee April 2010, 90 pages This report details the findings from a joint P/PV-Harvard Family Research Project study that examined the practices and structural features of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs to identify the characteristics most successful in retaining older youth—as well as the strategies cities are using to support participation. The full report can be accessed here; an accompanying research synopsis can be found here.

		Nurse-Family Partnership Celebrates 10 Years of Replication in Pennsylvania!

Nurse-Family Partnership and P/PV celebrated a decade of home-visiting programs for low-income Pennsylvania families at an event in Harrisburg. P/PV President Nadya K. Shmavonian spoke at the event, along with Department of Public Welfare Secretary Harriet Dichter and Former Pennsylvania First Lady Michele Ridge (pictured above with a group of nurses). Nurse-Family Partnership home visitors currently serve more than 3,000 families a day in 40 of the state's 67 counties. To see more photos of the event, visit P/PV's Facebook page.

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Publications for Policymakers

Working Dads: Final Report on the Fathers at Work Initiative
Working Dads: Final Report on the Fathers at Work Initiative presents findings from P/PV's evaluation of Fathers at Work, a national demonstration funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, designed to help low-income noncustodial fathers increase their employment and earnings, become more involved in their children's lives, and provide them with more consistent financial support.

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High School Mentors In Brief: Findings from the Big Brothers Big Sisters School-Based Mentoring Impact Study
This issue of P/PV In Brief is based on High School Students as Mentors, which explored the efficacy of high school mentors using data from P/PV's large-scale random assignment impact study of Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring programs (Herrera et al. 2007).

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Growing What Works: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania's Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative
Using the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership experience as a case study, this report provides key lessons for policymakers and funders interested in bringing proven models to a statewide scale.

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Initiatives for Policymakers

New Directions in Youth Policy Forum
On October 7, 2008, P/PV convened a panel of academics, policymakers, practitioners and philanthropists to examine how lessons from the past 30 years of research on social programs and policies can inform a new era that better meets the needs of older youth, especially in low-income communities.

Sectoral Employment Impact Study Briefing
On April 30, 2009, P/PV researchers were joined by representatives from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, National Skills Coalition and the three sites that participated in the Sectoral Employment Impact Study to share the study's exciting initial findings at a briefing in the Russell Senate Office Building.

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