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Castells, Nina; Riccio, James – MDRC, 2020
This report introduces the MyGoals for Employment Success demonstration. MyGoals is an employment coaching program that helps participants set and achieve goals. It seeks to do so by explicitly focusing attention on participants' executive skills. MyGoals also offers participants a set of financial incentives to encourage, facilitate, and reward…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Incentives, Employment Programs, Executive Function
Bliss, Steven; Riccio, James – 2001
Jobs-Plus is an intensive, place-based initiative for increasing employment among public housing residents. Closely aligned with the goals of the 1998 federal Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, Jobs-Plus aims to transform public housing communities by increasing employment among residents. Tests of this new employment approach…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Attitude Change, Community Cooperation
Riccio, James; And Others – 1986
This report updates the interim Virginia Employment Services Program (ESP) participation patterns and examines program success in mandating job search participation. Following an introductory chapter, chapter 2 discusses research design, sample, and data sources. (The sample contained 1,287 Work Incentive Program applicants and 1,897 recipients.)…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs