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Summary

Health Careers for All Program provided funding and services to individuals with low incomes to pursue occupational training for careers in health care.

The program, operated by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County provided funding for occupational training in health care through either Individual Training Accounts (vouchers) or tuition-free course packages open only to program participants at community and technical colleges.

Throughout the program, navigators provided case management services, including guidance and advice on selecting a training program as well as guidance on employment, academic, and nonacademic issues and coordination.

Participants could also receive employment assistance, case management, and financial support for transportation and unexpected costs. Near the end of their training, individuals were also offered employment assistance, including job clubs, job search assistance, and access to a job developer.

The average voucher amount per participant was about $1,400. The program length varied, with an average duration of about eight months. Health Careers for All focused on individuals who either received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, had incomes below 175 percent of the federal poverty line, or had extenuating circumstances (such as a disability) limiting their work.

The program was implemented in Seattle, WA.

Health Careers for All was part of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education study which also evaluated the following career pathways programs: Bridge to Employment in the Healthcare Industry, Carreras en Salud, Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training, Pathways to Healthcare, Patient Care Pathway Program, Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement, Workforce Training Academy Connect, and Year Up.

24989.09-Study of Health Care
Populations and employment barriers:

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 No evidence to assess support
Long-term Little evidence to assess support unfavorable $-1,004 per year -0.048 652
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term No evidence to assess support
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.

Effectiveness rating key:

  • 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
High High 1
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Implementation details

Characteristics of research participants
Black or African American
51%
White, not Hispanic
29%
Another race
15%
Hispanic or Latino of any race
13%

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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