HPOG aimed to prepare participants for careers in health care occupations that paid well and were expected to experience labor shortages or increased demand. HPOG 2.0 refers to the second round of five-year HPOG grants that the Administration for Children and Families awarded in 2010. HPOG 2.0 used a career pathways framework with three core components: basic skills training, health care occupational training, and wraparound supports and services. Local HPOG 2.0 programs varied in how they implemented the career pathways framework. Most programs did not develop or provide HPOG-specific training courses. Rather, HPOG 2.0-funded grantees provided navigation services to promote participant enrollment in job training courses, education programs, and work-based learning opportunities. Local HPOG 2.0 programs also offered or connected intervention participants to an array of additional services, including case management, academic supports, supportive services like child care assistance, and employment assistance. As of 2022, HPOG 2.0 continues to offer similar services to eligible participants. On average, participants completed about six months of training. All HPOG 2.0 programs served people participating in TANF and other people with low incomes, but local programs set different criteria to determine whether applicants were eligible. HPOG 2.0 was implemented in 38 sites across 17 states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
Summary
HPOG 2.0 provided education and training to people participating in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other people with low incomes for occupations in the health care field.
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Effectiveness rating and effect by outcome domain
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| Outcome domain | Term | Effectiveness rating | Effect in 2018 dollars and percentages | Effect in standard deviations | Sample size |
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| Increase earnings | Short-term | 
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$-481 per year
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-0.023 | 22443 |
| Long-term |
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$293 per year
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0.014 | 2798 | |
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| Increase employment | Short-term |
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-1% (in percentage points)
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-0.019 | 22443 |
| Long-term |
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-1% (in percentage points)
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-0.034 | 2798 | |
| Very long-term | |
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| Decrease benefit receipt | Short-term | |
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| Increase education and training | All measurement periods | 
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3% (in percentage points)
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0.056 | 10117 |
* This intervention was assessed as supported for this domain, meaning it achieved one or more statistically significant, favorable effects. However, the intervention has an average effect size that is unfavorable because the average includes all effects in this domain - both statistically significant and favorable effects and statistically insignificant but unfavorable effects.
Effectiveness rating key:
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Insufficient evidence
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No evidence
Studies of this intervention
| Study quality rating | Study counts per rating |
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 High
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1 |
Implementation details
State(s) where implemented
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