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Summary

CBI-Emp provided a series of workshops to fathers with prior justice involvement. The workshops aimed to teach cognitive behavioral skills that would help participants become job ready and maintain employment.

CBI-Emp offers 31 group sessions developed by the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute, including skill- and application-based sessions. The intervention primarily supported soft skills development. Skill-based sessions taught participants positive social skills to manage employment challenges, and application sessions provided participants with support for building individual plans for success in the workplace.  Three community-based organizations that deliver job-readiness services and have experience serving fathers involved in the justice system implemented CBI-Emp.

Eligible participants were fathers who had been involved with the justice system in the last 3 years, were at least 18 years old, had kids younger than 25, and were moderately or highly likely to experience justice involvement in the future. Participants were told to attend 14 skill-based sessions and 6 application sessions; the other 11 were optional Each session was between 60 and 90 minutes and programming lasted five weeks. Financial incentives varied at each organization, but participants received between $25 and $200 depending on how many sessions they attended.

CBI-Emp was implemented from October 2016 to December 2018 in the three locations of participating organizations: Cleveland, OH; New York, NY; and Dunbar, WV.

37960-Cognitive Behavioral
Populations and employment barriers: Parents, Male, Justice system involvement

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
Increase earnings Short-term Little evidence to assess support unfavorable $-105 per year -0.005 733
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Little evidence to assess support favorable 1% (in percentage points) 0.034 733
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Decrease benefit receipt Short-term No evidence to assess support
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase education and training All measurement periods No evidence to assess support
* 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.

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  • Supported  Supported   
  • Not supported  Not supported   
  • Mixed support  Mixed support   
  • Insufficient evidence  Insufficient evidence   
  • No evidence  No evidence
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Studies of this intervention

Study quality rating Study counts per rating
High High 1
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Implementation details

Cost information

The average cost per participant was $1,228 in 2018 dollars.

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The information contained here reflects how the intervention was implemented at the time of the evaluation.

Local context

Characteristics of research participants
Black or African American
71%
White, not Hispanic
9%
Another race
5%
Hispanic or Latino of any race
16%

The race and ethnicity categories may sum to more than 100 percent if the authors reported race and ethnicity separately; in these cases, we report the category White, rather than White, not Hispanic.

State(s) where implemented

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