Promising Practices – CalWORKs 2.0 | Next Generation https://calworksnextgen.org Supporting the next generation of human service professionals for the welfare of all Californians. Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:35:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 Behavioral Economics and Social Policy – 12 interventions pdf https://calworksnextgen.org/behavioral-economics-and-social-policy-12-interventions-pdf/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:35:59 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=959 Full Title:  Behavioral Economics and Social Policy Designing Innovative Solutions for Programs Supported by the Administration for Children and Families

OPRE Report No. 2014-16b
April 2014

BIAS Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency

There are 12 easy to read and understand behavioral interventions with examples that are drawn from many many research studies.  A good quick read on the subject.

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This Technical Supplement to the full report presents a description of behavioral interventions that have been commonly researched in studies outside of the BIAS project. The supplement is intended to
give a broader sense of the universe of behavioral interventions that have been evaluated and have demonstrated
some efficacy.

]]> Practitioner’s Playbook for Applying Behavioral Insights to Labor Programs website https://calworksnextgen.org/practitioners-playbook-for-applying-behavioral-insights-to-labor-programs-website/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:28:26 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=957 This document provides an overview of how practitioners can incorporate behavioral insights into their labor programs and is based on Mathematica’s behavioral insights study conducted for the U.S. Department of Labor.

From April 30, 2017

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The designers of Department of Labor programs usually assume that people make decisions after fully considering their options and then act on those decisions. However, behavioral science shows that this assumption can often be wrong. People procrastinate and forget to do important tasks. Too many choices and small hassles can overwhelm them.

DOL worked with Mathematica and ideas42 to test whether applying behavioral science principles to diverse labor programs might help these programs better meet their goals. Studies suggest that relatively modest changes to program materials, forms, or processes can greatly improve participant outcomes and program performance.

]]> Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families – https://calworksnextgen.org/three-principles-to-improve-outcomes-for-children-and-families/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:30:19 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=788 This working policy paper from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University has a downloadable PDF and a good graphic on the 3 principles:

  1. Support responsive relationships for children and adults.
  2. Strengthen core life skills.
  3. Reduce sources of stress in the lives of children and families.

 

Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

]]> Small Steps That Have a Big Impact on Achieving Goals video https://calworksnextgen.org/small-steps-that-have-a-big-impact-on-achieving-goals-video/ Tue, 18 Jul 2017 02:55:19 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=639 Planning Prompts and Bundling are two researched strategies highlighted in this video from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania

]]> Building Better Programs website https://calworksnextgen.org/building-better-programs-website/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:19:19 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=612 This website from partner, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has a very well stocked section on Executive Function.  “Materials that describe what executive function skills are, provides examples of programs that build executive function skills or use executive function principles in their program designs and provides other resources for programs interested in using executive function principles to improve their work and other human service programs.”

http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/category/executive-function/

]]> Executive Function Skills: What They Are and Why They Matter webinar https://calworksnextgen.org/executive-function-skills-what-they-are-and-why-they-matter-webinar/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:14:00 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=610 Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.  Includes recorded webinar and slides.

Executive Function Skills: What They Are and Why They Matter

]]> Using an Executive Function-Informed Goal Achievement Framework to Redesign Employment and Related Human Services Program webinar https://calworksnextgen.org/using-an-executive-function-informed-goal-achievement-framework-to-redesign-employment-and-related-human-services-program-webinar/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:11:57 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=608 Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.  Includes recorded webinar and slides.

Using an Executive Function-Informed Goal Achievement Framework to Redesign Employment and Related Human Service Programs

]]> The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills on Outcomes for Young People paper https://calworksnextgen.org/the-impact-of-non-cognitive-skills-on-outcomes-for-young-people-paper/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:09:05 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=606 The term ‘non-cognitive skills’ refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control.  Despite growing interest in this topic, the causal relationship between non-cognitive skills and later outcomes is not well established. This rapid literature review is intended to summarise the existing evidence on
how ‘non-cognitive skills’ can be defined and measured; assess the evidence that such skills have a causal impact on later outcomes; and the role of select interventions that aim to improve non-cognitive skills in children and young people.”

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/EEF_Lit_Review_Non-CognitiveSkills.pdf

]]> Teacher Expectations Matter paper https://calworksnextgen.org/teacher-expectations-matter-paper/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:55:58 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=604 Teacher Expectations Matter paper, August 2016

“We provide novel, arguably causal evidence that teacher expectations affect students’ educational attainment. On average, teachers are overly optimistic about students’ ability to complete a four-year college degree. However, the degree of over-optimism of white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is frequently overlooked in discussions of biased beliefs: unbiased (i.e., accurate) beliefs can be counterproductive if there are positive returns to optimism or if there are socio-demographic gaps in the degree of teachers’ over-optimism, both of which we find evidence of.”

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/147851/1/dp10165.pdf

Nicholas W. Papageorge ,Johns Hopkins University and IZA

Seth Gershenson, American University and IZA

Kyungmin Kang, Johns Hopkins University

]]> Psychological Lives of the Poor paper https://calworksnextgen.org/psychological-lives-of-the-poor-paper/ Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:49:31 +0000 http://calworksnextgen.org/?p=602 Article in  2016 American Economic Review, 106(5):435-40, Shilbach et al.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/psychological_lives_of_the_poor.pdf

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