About the Study
In 2016, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Employment and Training Administration and funded contractor Abt Associates to conduct the Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA) Pilot. The program evaluation aims to document the implementation and assess the impact of the CCCA pilot program.
The CCCA pilot program, located in Washington State, served Job Corps students aged 16—21 and recruited from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Like the conventional Job Corps model, CCCA was a residential program that met participants’ basic needs, such as food and healthcare, allowing them to concentrate on their education or training. The CCCA pilot partnered with a local community college to provide career pathways programs in the healthcare and information technology industries, connecting academic, career training, and social skills training with industry-recognized credentials, a secure job, and/or advances into community college and employment.
This Department of Labor-funded study was a result of the annual process to determine the Department’s research priorities for the upcoming year. It contributes to the labor evidence-base to inform employment and training programs and policies and addresses Departmental strategic goals and priorities.
- How was the CCCA model implemented?
- How do students flow through and experience the CCCA model?
- How did receipt of training and services for eligible applicants offered CCCA differ from what their experiences would have been in the absence of CCCA?
- How did outcomes differ for eligible applicants offered CCCA differ from what their experiences would have been in the absence of CCCA?
- Working Together: A First Look at Lessons from the Cascades College and Career Academy and Other Job Corps Partnerships with Community and Technical Colleges (Implementation Brief, April 2022)
- Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA) Pilot (Implementation Analysis, April 2022)
- Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA) Pilot (Final Report, April 2022)
- Evaluation of the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA) Pilot (Technical Appendix, April 2022)
Project Duration: 6 Years
Contract End Date: May 2021
Contractor: ABT Associates and MDRC
For More Information: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov
This study was sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration, Office of Policy Development and Research, Division of Research and Evaluation, and was produced outside of CEO’s standard research development process.