APPAM 2020 Fall Research Conference: Panel- To Improve and to Prove: Building Evidence across Generations of a Promising Youth Development Program

Council of Large Public Housing Authorities
Washington, District of Columbia
Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Virtual
In this session, we present longer-term findings from a vibrant evaluation partnership focusing on Year Up—one of the nation’s foremost programs for low-income youth. This work is using varied methods to address key questions that arise at different stages in each program generation’s lifecycle. The partnership involves a close collaboration between Year Up and researchers at Abt Associates and the University of Pennsylvania. Several federally-funded projects anchor this work, including a large random assignment study of Year Up’s stand-alone core program (part of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Study, funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services) and two studies of Year Up’s Professional Training Corps (PTC)—which adapts the core model for college settings to enhance scalability (funded by the Institute for Education Sciences and the Social Innovation Fund). Interest in evidence-building across the lifecycle of multiple versions of Year Up’s program is justified by findings from an early PACE report showing that the core program had large, persistent positive earnings impacts over an initial three-year follow-up period.
Abt Associates
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