RMC’s Senior Research Scientist Dr. Chris King was interviewed by UT News‘s Avrel Seale on 4/21/20 exploring COVID-19’s impact on unemployment, what the economy will look like going forward, and what reform opportunities the pandemic has exposed. You can read the article here.
HPOG Secondary Data Analysis
| 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:
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. |
| Reports Available: |
American Graduate video explainer: Becoming a cyber security analyst.
“Years ago, if you would have asked me about cyber security…to me it seemed like it was very Hollywood and just of reach.” Learn how Christion became a cyber security analyst in the latest episode from @AustinPBS’s American Graduate: Getting To Work initiative.
American Graduate | Christion Cybersecurity FULL
"Years ago, if you would have asked me about cyber security…to me it seemed like it was very Hollywood and just of reach." Learn how Christion became a cyber security analyst in the latest episode of American Graduate: Getting To Work. #AmGradTX
Posted by Austin PBS on Thursday, February 27, 2020
*The Ray Marshall Center is proud to be one of the local partners, joining Austin Community College, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Travis County Judge’s Office, and Workforce Solutions Capital Area in the grant.
To read more about the initiative and see updates, please visit the dedicated website.
American Graduate video explainer: This concrete builder decided to get into nursing.
After building concrete blocks for 13 years, Alex decided he needed something for the long haul. That’s when he decided to get into nursing. Watch his story from Austin PBS’s American Graduate: Getting to Work initiative.
American Graduate | Alex Nursing
After building concrete blocks for 13 years, Alex decided he needed something for the long haul. That's when he decided to get into nursing. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2wtzcC8. #AmGradTX
Posted by Austin PBS on Thursday, February 20, 2020
*The Ray Marshall Center is proud to be one of the local partners, joining Austin Community College, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Travis County Judge’s Office, and Workforce Solutions Capital Area in the grant.
To read more about the initiative and see updates, please visit the dedicated website.
American Graduate video explainer: This Del Valle high schooler’s journey to becoming a Certified Patient Care Technician
While at Del Valle High School, Yaneth Osorio trained to become a Certified Patient Care Technician (CPCT). Learn more about CPCT and the next steps in Yaneth’s journey in the latest video from KLRU-TV’s American Graduate: Getting to Work initiative.
American Graduate | Yaneth CPCT
While at Del Valle High School, Yaneth Osorio trained to become a Certified Patient Care Technician (CPCT). Learn more about CPCT and the next steps in Yaneth's journey. #AmGradTX #NDEAM
Posted by KLRU-TV, Austin PBS on Wednesday, October 16, 2019
*The Ray Marshall Center is proud to be one of the local partners, joining Austin Community College, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Travis County Judge’s Office, and Workforce Solutions Capital Area in the grant.
To read more about the initiative and see updates, please visit the dedicated website.
Chris King keynotes CareerAdvance® 2019 graduation ceremony
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.
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
Sandie Jimenez-Coop
L-R: Toniesha Cotton, Brooke Mcknight, Brittany Newton
Heath Prince presents work on youth unemployment in the MENA region at WORK2019
RMC’s Director and Research Scientist Dr. Heath Prince presented his work on youth unemployment in the MENA region at WORK2019: Real World in the Virtual World, the 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work and Working Life, in Helsinki, Finland from August 14-16, 2019. The WORK2019 Conference is organized by Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS) together with the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku, the SWiPE – Research consortium, and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. His presentation included findings from synthetic control method models examining the effect that the Arab Spring had on youth unemployment in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. You can view a photo gallery of the conference here (courtesy of Eija Vuorio, WORK2019 organising committee).
Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute free webinar on Friday August 23, 2019
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.
American Graduate video explainer: This Austin high schooler is on track to become a certified electrician upon graduating.
Stephanie Neri Perez, a junior at Lanier High School, is on track to become a certified electrician upon graduating. Discover her journey in the latest episode from KLRU-TV’s American Graduate: Getting To Work initiative.
This Austin high schooler is on track to become a certified electrician upon graduating. Discover her journey in the latest episode from our American Graduate: Getting To Work initiative. #AmGradTX
Posted by KLRU-TV, Austin PBS on Tuesday, June 4, 2019
*The Ray Marshall Center is proud to be one of the local partners, joining Austin Community College, the Office of the Mayor of the City of Austin, Travis County Judge’s Office, and Workforce Solutions Capital Area in the grant.
To read more about the initiative and see updates, please visit the dedicated website.
Child Care Cost of Quality Modeling Study
| Principal Investigator: | Daniel Schroeder, PhD |
| Sponsor: | Texas Workforce Commission |
| Project Duration: | May 2019 – April 2022 |
| Description: | Researchers from the Ray Marshall Center (RMC) will conduct a study of the cost of providing quality child care in the state of Texas, the purpose of which is to provide estimates of how much more additional funding, in terms of daily rates, should be paid to providers who meet quality standards to care for children, relative to how much providers who do not meet such standards are paid. The study will be done in conjunction with the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing (TICFW), who will be responsible for consulting on the design of a pair of surveys to capture important quality factors and pricing information, and fielding the surveys to carefully selected samples of home- and center-based child care facilities. |
| Reports Available: | The reports for this project are published through the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing at the University of Texas at Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work. The following reports are available on their website. |
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