Although these results have been impressive, welfare recipients have not done as well at staying employed or advancing to better paying positions. To improve our knowledge of what strategies work best, ACF funded 13 states with planning grants to develop proposals for experiments to test promising job retention and advancement strategies. The Lewin Group provided technical assistance on program design and evaluation. At the end of the project, ACF will solicit grant proposals from states that wish to test promising strategies for job retention and advancement. The literature synthesis, first conference, and first round of site visits have been completed.
States are still in the process of developing their plans for the demonstration.
A program manual was developed to help states design strategies for promoting employment retention and advancement. This on-line manual provides standardized information for use by state and local officials on the Internet.