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Summary

Empowering Lives through Education, Vocational Assessment, Training, and Employment (ELEVATE) provided individualized case management, employment, parenting, and child support services to noncustodial parents who were unemployed or underemployed to improve their workforce participation and child support compliance.

Services included individualized assessments for employment, parenting, and other needs. Participants also received case management to provide monitoring and referrals to additional services as needed. Enhanced child support services included a desk review, suspension of administrative and judicial enforcement, and assessment for expedited case reviews and adjustments if applicable.

Eligible ELEVATE participants were noncustodial parents who were unemployed or underemployed. ELEVATE was implemented in five counties in Wisconsin—Brown, Kenosha, Marathon, Racine, and Wood County.

101005-Study of Empowering
Populations and employment barriers: Noncustodial parents, Justice involvement

Implementation at a glance

Primary service
Child support assistance
Program services
Case management, Child support assistance, Employment coaching, Job development, Job placement, Job readiness, Job search assistance, Peer mentoring, Soft skills training, Transportation assistance, Work supports
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Setting(s)
Tested in multiple settings
Year evaluation began
2020
Implementing organization(s)Child support agencies

Effectiveness ratings

  • Well- supported
  • Supported
  • Mixed support
  • Not supported
  • Insufficient evidence
  • Cannot assess support

Studies of this program

Study quality rating Study counts per rating
Low Low 1
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Program cost

No cost information available.

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Implementation details

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

Local context

Characteristics of research participants
Black or African American
23%
White, not Hispanic
56%
Another race
8%
Hispanic or Latino of any race
14%

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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