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Summary

Cleveland ERA offered on-site case management, weekly life-skills learning sessions, and training for supervisors with the goal of helping low-wage employees retain jobs.

Cleveland ERA, also referred to as Achieve, delivered services directly in the workplace to low-wage workers.

Services included the following: case management; weekly 30-minute life-skills learning sessions focused on topics such as time management, goal setting, budgeting, and credit repair; and training for supervisors of low-wage workers. Case management was available on-site during three or four regularly scheduled office hours each week. The supervisor training could be delivered in one eight-hour session, two half-day sessions, or three two-hour sessions.

The project provided services for one year. Cleveland ERA served clients in workplaces that employed at least 15 staff who earned less than $13 per hour and were hired within the past six months. Most of the employers and firms were in the long-term nursing care sector. The Cleveland ERA project was implemented at 22 employer sites in Cleveland, OH.

3132-The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project - Cleveland
Populations and employment barriers: Employed

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 $-397 per year -0.019 697
Long-term Little evidence to assess support unfavorable $-690 per year -0.033 697
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Little evidence to assess support favorable 2% (in percentage points) 0.042 697
Long-term Little evidence to assess support favorable 1% (in percentage points) 0.027 697
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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  • Well-supported Well-supported   
  • 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
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Implementation details

Characteristics of research participants
Black or African American
56%
White, not Hispanic
34%
Another race
3%
Hispanic or Latino of any race
6%

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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