Family and Social Policy

HPOG Secondary Data Analysis

April 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

Principal Investigator:	Christopher T. King, PhD
Sponsor:	Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
Project Duration:	December 2019 – December 2021
Description:	The Ray Marshall Center will evaluate the variation in program characteristics – including program components, implementation features, local context, and participant traits – to explore which characteristics are associated with Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program participant’s healthcare profession career pathway outcomes. This research will address the following questions: What program characteristics, implementation features, local context, and participant traits are associated with participant completion of nursing assistant training? What program characteristics, implementation features, local context, and participant traits are associated with participant obtainment of CNA licensure? What program characteristics, implementation features, local context, and participant traits are associated with CNA program completer’s achievement of advanced CNA training? What program characteristics, implementation features, local context, and participant traits are associated with CNA program completer’s achievement of additional training in the healthcare profession? Similar to the previous research on the impact of HPOG program characteristics on educational achievement (Peck et al., 2018 and Walton et al., 2019), this research expects to identify supports such as childcare and transportation assistance, tuition, and other financial assistance, as well as employment supports and emergency assistance associated with CNA participant achievements along a career pathway. Practitioners, policymakers, funders, and researchers may be interested in which combination of program components, implementation strategies, participant characteristics, and local context may impact a CNA participant to pursue the next step along a healthcare profession career pathway. Insights from this research can inform future program design and implementation within the broader field of entry level healthcare provider workforce development.
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Chris King keynotes CareerAdvance® 2019 graduation ceremony

September 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

RMC Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King was the keynote speaker at CareerAdvance®‘s 2019 graduation ceremony held at the Tulsa Technology Center on September 9th. Chris was an instrumental member of the team that designed CareerAdvance®, a sectoral, career pathway workforce strategy for the parents of children served by Tulsa’s early childhood education programs in 2009 and is part of the team conducting the evaluation of the program for CAP Tulsa via funding from the US Depart of Health and Human Services. Janae Bradford, Assistant Director of Family Advancement for CAP Tulsa, emceed the event.

This year, 108 graduates walked the stage to be awarded certifications in 12 different career tracks. Certifications included seven Development Associates (CDA), seventeen Nursing Assistants (CNA), twelve Medication Aides (CMA), two Advance Mediation Aids (Advanced CMA), three Advanced Unlicensed Assistants, five Central Services Technicians (CST), ten Electrocardiogram Monitor Technicians (EKG Technician), twenty Phlebotomy graduates, twenty Medical Assistants, three Surgical Technologists, seven Medical Coders, and two Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN).

Since 2008, the Ray Marshall Center has had an ongoing partnership with CAP Tulsa and Northwestern University (as well as partners at NYU and Columbia) to evaluate CareerAdvance®. You can view the details of the partnership here.

Photos courtesy of Madison Strategies Group.

Dr. Chris King speaks at CareerAdvance 2019 graduation

L-R: Erika Saldivar, Rachel Lhungdim, Amber Lipp and Patrena Jeffers

L-R: Ashley Garza, Juana Hess, Madison Beasley, Jamese Brown; Top row L-R: Violet Houston and Hollee Whitehead; Bottom left: Quiara Scott

L-R: Toniesha Cotton, Brooke Mcknight, Brittany Newton

Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute free webinar on Friday August 23, 2019

August 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Please join us for a free webinar “Building a Better Understanding of Texas Low-Income Communities and Energy” hosted by the Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) on Friday, August 23rd at 11am CST. RMC’s Dr. Heath Prince is one of the four featured speakers, and the webinar focuses on the results the Texas Low-Income Community Profile Series first installment, The Texas Overview (details below). Heath’s Policy Research Project class at the LBJ School of Public Affairs contributed to the research for TEPRI’s project. You can register here.

Details:
Understanding dynamics at the intersection of poverty and energy affordability is critical to designing strategies to effectively develop lasting energy solutions for low-income communities. In this webinar, we will discuss the interplay between energy poverty and economic hardship, demographic traits, quality of life, energy behaviors, housing type, and household composition. Our speakers will present the results of the Texas Low-Income Community Profile Series first installment, The Texas Overview. The objective of this series is for data and insights to be utilized by members and stakeholders to increase effectiveness of low-income energy programs and reduce barriers to outreach and education.

Key discussion items:

Owner-occupied households are a meaningful energy poverty reduction target
Low-income customers are engaged with energy, just not with programs
Low-income Texans make difficult trade-offs to balance the disproportionate amount that they spend on energy
Energy burden is a useful metric, but not a sufficient signal of energy poverty

Featured Speakers:
John Hall, Director of the Texas Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); Dana Harmon, Executive Director of TEPRI; Jacqui Moss, Research Fellow at TEPRI and the lead author on the Texas Overview Report; and Heath Prince, Director and Research Scientist at RMC.

To view the report being discussed during the webinar, go here. You can also view the PRP class report here.

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