Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse – Website "Tour" (Google Form) and MURAL Activity for Stakeholder Meetings

OMB Control Number: 0970-0401, Expiration Date: June 30/2024

Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse

Website “Tour” (Google Form) for Stakeholder Meetings

Prior to the Pathways stakeholder meetings, we will ask participants to take a “tour” of the Pathways website (https://pathwaystowork.acf.hhs.gov) and answer a series of questions about the site via a Google form. Please see our proposed text for this Google form below.

In order to help you get acquainted with the website before our meeting, we are requesting that you complete this questionnaire and "tour" of the website beforehand. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns about this activity.

Please begin by watching our introductory video, located on the About Us page.

[https://youtu.be/PQS0e_n1qNI]

Now, please head to the Pathways Clearinghouse site:  https://pathwaystowork.acf.hhs.gov/ 

Once you arrive at the site, consider the following scenario: Your team wants to understand whether work readiness activities, such as employment coaching and job search assistance, are effective at improving the earnings potential for your clients in the long-term. You want to understand the available evidence, including the types of interventions that have been tested and found effective. Given that context, consider the following questions:

Using the example provided above, please navigate to “Find Interventions That Work” to search for interventions that use work or work-based learning as a strategy. [https://pathwaystowork.acf.hhs.gov/find-interventions] As you explore the interventions, find interventions that have been shown to be effective at improving employment outcomes (e.g., increasing employment, earnings or education and training and decreasing public benefit receipt). Below, please list three interventions that increase earnings, as shown by a supported effectiveness rating. Include a note about the reasons you might explore each intervention further.

Using the “Compare” function on the search page, compare the three interventions you previously indicated. Of these three, which had the largest dollar increase in long-term earnings?

Now, navigate to the Project Quality Employment Through Skills Training (QUEST) Intervention. Within the effectiveness rating and effect-by-outcome domain table, what is the effect on short-term earnings in 2018 dollars? How might you use that information?

Further down the page, we provide information on how the intervention was implemented. In your opinion, what is the most important information about intervention implementation? What key information is missing, if any?

Given your tour of the website and viewing of the promotional video, what more would you like to know about the website?

Full name:

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN: Through this information collection, ACF is gathering information to improve the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse (pathwaystowork.acf.hhs.gov) website. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 20 minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 06/30/2024. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Amelia Popham at [email protected].