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Process Study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Pay for Success” Pilots
Project
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tested the use of a Pay for Success (PFS) approach for funding and evaluating employment services. Under the PFS model, private and philanthropic investors cover the up-front costs of delivering an intervention. Then…
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
Project
Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Analyzing If An Oncology Care Model Will Improve Care and Lower Costs
Project
Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…
Reemployment Services Evidence: A Collection of Briefs on RESEA Program Components Evaluation to Advance RESEA Program Evidence
Publication
The briefs summarize research to inform RESEA programs’ approach to selecting claimants, promoting meeting attendance, and providing reemployment services.
Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement Six-Year Impact Report
Publication
The Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement increased receipt of college certificates and degrees but did not lead to higher incomes.
Evaluating the Workforce Innovation Fund
Project
The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…
Evaluating Australia’s Rural Primary Health Services
Project
There is clear evidence that individuals living within rural and remote areas are more likely to suffer from disease compared to metropolitan areas. The lack of health services prompted Australia’s Department of Health to implement the Rural Primary…
Spotlight On: Digital Solutions for Global Development
Spotlight On
Abt Staff Recognized for Innovation, Social and Scientific Impact
Impact Brief
Abt staff were recognized for outstanding work at the company’s 2018 Annual Meeting in Cambridge, Mass., with awards for social and scientific impact and technical innovation, among others.
Summary and Insights from the Ten PACE and HPOG 1.0 Job Training Evaluations
Publication
Of 10 programs using career pathways strategies, most had large impacts on credential receipt & modest impacts on training duration; 1 had earnings impacts.