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Getting a job was important to me for stability,
for growth, and to help me achieve my goals.

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In any context where we’re trying to help someone find
a job, there’s a tremendous interest out there from

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program administrators, policy makers in
using evidence to make good decisions.

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At the Center for Urban Families, our overall goal and mission
is to help families achieve stability and economic success.

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Administrators are overwhelmed with
serving a very vulnerable population.

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So they don’t always have the time to be able
to do the kind of research they would like to do.

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Introducing the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse,

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a website from the Administration for Children and Families to help
program providers improve employment outcomes for job seekers.

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Our evidence is critically important, but it’s also difficult sometimes
to access information that will help you make informed decisions,

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and so it’s not that the evidence doesn’t exist
sometimes, it’s just that it’s not easily accessible.

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A comprehensive, easy-to-use website, Pathways to Work
connects you to evidence-based programs.

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We want decision makers at all levels
to use evidence on a daily basis.

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It can be very hard to do when you’re tasked with many different
demands and obligations through the course of a day.

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The website rates and summarizes programs’
effects on clients’ earnings, employment,

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public benefit receipt, and education and training,
so you can see what works and what doesn’t.

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Service providers can go to directly look at
programs that might make sense in a local context.

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It’s pretty seamless. It’s not intimidating,
and it is the perfect tool to

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provide you with consistent, updated information,
and it’s relevant to the population you serve.

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To help my family and to be able to give my
support and to get support was a big thing for me.

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That’s the benefit of having a tool to advance what
we’re trying to achieve with our most vulnerable folks.

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