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The brief presents preliminary results on key outcomes and characteristics of grant-funded program participants from the first four years of Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT). The TAACCCT grant program is primarily focused on capacity building and sustainability, with grant funding directed at institution building rather than at tuition assistance for students to help them pay for education and training. Therefore, a key measure of TAACCCT progress and success is the number of programs of study created using grant funding, which is included in the discussion below.

However, this brief mainly focuses on who grant funded programs are serving and their educational and employment outcomes. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) collects annual performance report (APR) data from TAACCCT grantees. Those data, covering the program period up through September 30, 2015, provide information on grant-funded program participant characteristics and outcomes. Participant characteristics described include basic demographics, school enrollment and work status, veteran status, whether an individual has a disability, Pell grant eligibility, and Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) eligibility. Preliminary participant outcomes presented focus on short term education and employment outcomes for participants (i.e., outcomes experienced while enrolled in a TAACCCT-funded program of study or within the first three quarters after program completion and exit from the institution). This brief concludes with a discussion of observations and future products to be developed as part of the TAACCCT national evaluation.

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Durham, C., Eyster, L., Mikelson, K. S., Cohen, E. (2017). Urban Institute. Early Results of the TAACCCT Grants: The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program Brief 4. Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor.

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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsors independent evaluations and research, primarily conducted by external, third-party contractors in accordance with the Department of Labor Evaluation Policy and CEO’s research development process.