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The brief focuses on the 22 Pathway Home grants awarded in 2021 and describes the grantees’ experiences during their first year of implementation. This brief discusses the grants and describes the types of organizations funded, their locations, staffing structures, partnerships, and the services provided.

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Key Takeaways

• All grantees partnered with correctional facilities to provide pre-release, post-release, and transition services. Participating prisons were predominantly minimum and medium security facilities, with a little over one-third having maximum security designations. Participating jails, on the other hand, had similar security rates across the board.
• Overall, grantees followed most of the requirements set out in the funding opportunity announcement. Nearly all grantees offered pre-release education and employment services, and all reported offering supportive services. However, grantees reported more variety in their post-release education, employment, and supportive service offerings than pre-release.
• When asked which partners they considered most critical for program success, grantees identified employers, education and training providers, workforce development boards or American Job Centers, housing service providers or agencies, and correctional agencies (not including partner facilities) as critical partners.

Citation

Hicks, B., Lynn-Green, R., Yañez, A. (2023). Mathematica. Pathway Home Evaluation Brief: 2021 Grants at a Glance. 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.