National Evaluation of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Summary of the Evaluations Reports and Findings

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Release Date: April 01, 2021

National Evaluation of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Summary of the Evaluations Reports and Findings

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The summary details the research activities and highlights key findings from all components of the five-year Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3) evaluation. First, researchers describe the implementation study, and provide an overview of the study’s findings. Then, they describe the evaluation technical assistance activities provided to grantees and their local evaluators and present findings from the synthesis of Cohort 1 pilots’ local evaluation reports. Lastly, they offer brief considerations of how the lessons learned from P3 can inform future efforts.

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Research Questions

  • How did the P3 pilots use Federal-, state-, and local-granted financial and programmatic flexibilities, including waivers and blended/braided funding, to design and implement interventions with the goal of improving the outcomes of disconnected youth?
  • How and to what extent had each pilot leveraged the P3 flexibilities, including waivers and blended/ braided funding, in an effort to enhance its partnerships and work across partners to provide effective and efficient services to disconnected youth?
  • What systems and programmatic changes resulted from P3 at the Federal and pilot levels (as reported by respondents)?
  • Who were the youth who participated in the P3 pilot and what services did they receive? What were the youth’s outcomes, especially in the education and employment domains?
  • What do the pilots’ implementation experiences suggest as lessons for developing and/or building upon the P3 integrated governance and service strategies to improve the outcomes of disconnected youth?

Key Takeaways

  • All pilots brought together multiple partners across different youth-serving agencies.
  • Pilots generally used two methods to combine multiple funding streams.
  • Pilots most commonly used approved waivers to serve a broader population of youth, serve a focal population of youth flexibly, and to reduce administrative burden.
  • Three key factors appeared to influence pilots’ use of flexibilities afforded to them through P3.
  • Pilots used P3 to implement three distinct approaches for serving youth.
  • Three pilots made systems change a central component of their efforts; other pilots prioritized enhanced youth services over systems change.
  • Two of the nine Cohort 1 pilots reported sustained systems change, while others reported little or no progress toward systems change.

Citation

Rosenberg, L., Bradley, M. C., Yañez, A., Stanczyk, A., Brown, E., Grey, C., Mack, M. (2021). Mathematica. National Evaluation of the Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Summary of the Evaluation’s Reports and Findings. 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.