Abt Global is a Gold Sponsor at APPAM’s 48th Annual Fall Research Conference. Connect with our team during our presentations or at Booth 304.
This year’s theme, Fifty States, Fifty Systems: State Policy Variations and Impacts, names the problem our researchers tackle every day. Policy decisions diverge sharply across state lines, and families feel the difference. As federal agencies narrow their reach, state administrators carry more of the weight with less time and less room to guess.
Abt builds the evidence states can act on. At APPAM 2026 our researchers take up the questions states are weighing right now: whether housing mobility services help voucher families reach opportunity areas, what rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention actually deliver, whether apprenticeship earnings gains hold up over a decade, and how AI can speed systematic evidence reviews without weakening standards.
Strengthening Rapid Re-Housing Programs
November 5 | 1:45-3:15 pm
Employment Strategies for People Facing Complex Barriers | Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse
November 6 | 3:30–5:00 pm
Preventing Future and Subsequent Homelessness
November 6 | 3:30–5:00 pm
Promoting Housing Mobility in the HCV Program
November 7 | 8:30–10:00 am
New Evidence on Apprenticeship Programs
November 7 | 10:15–11:45 am
AI to Speed Research and Evaluation | AI-supported evidence reviews for DOL's CLEAR
November 7 | 1:45–3:15 pm
More than 2.3 million households participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher program, and almost a million of these households are comprised of families with children. With these vouchers, families…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched the American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) to expand registered apprenticeships in the U.S. into sectors with few apprenticeships, such as healthcare and information technology (IT).
Individuals and families experiencing homelessness may spend a long time in an emergency shelter or transitional housing while they try to save money or arrange for a new place to live. Rapid re-housing (RRH) focuses on moving individuals and families…
The DOL-funded Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) has several goals. It makes research on labor topics more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and the public. It also provides information to inform decisions…
Across workforce development, education, children and families, economic mobility, housing, and public benefits, we bring together research, data, technology, and deep program and policy expertise to turn evidence into action.
