HOPE's internal research team studies client barriers and success to identify the strategies which best meet the needs of our community and continuously improve our program.  Research reports have enabled us to share findings and contribute to the broader field of workforce developm

Research Papers and Monographs  

• Is There a Gender Gap in Workforce Development Outcomes: Findings from The HOPE Program explores findings related to program completion, job placement and retention outcomes among men and women. 
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• Education: A Key Lever for Low-Wage Workers is an analysis of the impact of educational attainment on employment and retention outcomes among HOPE clients.
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• Turning HOPE into Opportunity, Volume II, December 2009 - "An Analysis of Employment Barriers and Outcomes for Clients Enrolled in The HOPE Program in 2006 and 2007".
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• The Diagnosis Project: Phase II is an analysis of the impact of mental health barriers on employment and retention of HOPE clients. This report looked at how specific mental health disorders affected placement and retention.
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• The Diagnosis Project is a preliminary analysis of mental health barriers present in clients enrolled in HOPE between July 2006 and June 2007. The report concludes with a summary of the key findings and implications for program design. Read Full Report

• Turning HOPE into Opportunity: The Monograph highlights the findings of our research report in a reader-friendly format, with photos of HOPE students, anecdotes about their histories and career paths, and lessons for the future. Read Monograph

• Turning HOPE into Opportunity: The Research Report, published in April 2007, profiles the demographic characteristics, employment barriers, and program outcomes of HOPE clients and presents a statistical analysis of the client characteristics that are predictive of individual success.  Read Full Report

• In the Impact of Educational Achievement and Reading Levels on Employment Outcomes, a chart-driven report, we compared outcomes by educational level to clients’ reading levels, as measured by the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE). In almost all cases, educational level was a better predictor of outcomes than was reading level.

• The HOPE Program: A Study of Clients With Conviction Histories 2002 – 2005 looked at the demographic characteristics of those with conviction histories, compared their program completion and job placement rates to those without criminal histories, and assessed their job retention rates and wages.