Settlement journeys toward good jobs: Short-term changes in outcomes and program impacts

Given the delay in recruiting comparison group members, the small sample size of total research participants from ACCES, and the important changes between November 2019 and July 2020 (to both the program and the labour market), the comparison group will not be used in the analysis of the immediate and intermediate outcomes. [...] They provide a picture of the characteristics of women who choose to participate in the pilot programming and enable a qualitative description of participants’ initial distances from the labour market, and, therefore, the effectiveness of the targeting of each model as depicted in Figure 2 earlier in the report. [...] Program staff from models 1, 3 and 4 identified employers who would be a good fit to partner with and emphasized the importance of the program and the benefits of the partnership for both the program and the employer. [...] As noted in the Data and Methodology section of this report, the key to identifying the impacts of the program is a valid counterfactual; what would have happened to the program group in the absence of the program. [...] Social Research and Demonstration Corporation 46 Settlement journeys toward good jobs: Short-term changes in outcomes and program impacts – CPRNW pilot project Suggestions for improvement from participants During the second year of the pilot, participants raised the following suggestions for the design and delivery of the programs: Comparable to the first year of the pilot, participants voiced t.