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New Project: Cash for Coloradans
Funded by the Urban Institute’s WorkRise initiative, “Cash for Coloradans” is a program to provide direct cash support to people participating in nonprofit career-readiness programs.
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Cash for Coloradans and Evidence for Equitable Upskilling
This project will evaluate programs offering different cash supports to clients of three Colorado training and career development nonprofits. This project is a partnership with the Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative (CEEMI).
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School Counselor Corps Grant Program Evaluation
Nationally, COVID-19 has highlighted the instability of relying on a small number of school counselors to guide hundreds of students through academics, prep them for the future and triage increasing mental health challenges.
In Progress
School Counselor Corps Grant Program
The Colorado School Counselor Corps Grant Program (SCCGP) is intended to assist local education providers to access effective school counseling in order to increase graduation rates, decrease dropout rates, and increase rates of matriculation into institutions of higher education. SCCGP has shown promising results in achieving all of its stated goals over the past 10 years of implementation. The goal of this project is to develop a plan and prepare to conduct a rigorous evaluation of program effectiveness and measure the program’s ROI.
In Progress
Improving Data Systems to Support the Early Childhood Workforce
The successful creation of early care and education workforce data assets in Phase I led to an extension of Colorado Lab’s partnership with the Department of Early Childhood through the Federal Preschool Development Grant. This second phase of work will support the rebuild of the early childhood workforce registry data system and will fill in data gaps including postsecondary pathways of the workforce as well as a comprehensive look at wages and compensation.