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Download full textMegan Schwartz – MDRC, 2025
For decades, most states have made a practice of giving citizens returning from prison or jail a small amount of money, called "gate money," to cover the cost of transportation and other immediate needs. Many legislatures have considered increasing the dollar amount of their cash assistance and offering this kind of support more widely.…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Recidivism, Financial Support, Pilot Projects
Direct linkAbirami Thirumanickam; Fiona Rillotta; Ruth Walker; Eleanor Watson; Susan Balandin; Parimala Raghavendra – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
People with intellectual disability use social media; however, there are barriers preventing them from using and benefiting from social media to the same extent as others. Some barriers include lack of knowledge, limited skills and inaccessibility. This pilot study used a sequential mixed method design to explore the outcomes of a social media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Social Media
Anthony Osuna; Katie Sabini; Eryca Yamane; Jaqueline Flores; Naomi Pierce; Jocelyn Lemus-Valle; Ty Vernon – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Many autistic adults report preference for computer-mediated communication and social media use. Despite many benefits to online socialization, there are many challenges including anxiety and cyber-victimization. To date, support is limited related to helping autistic adults with safe and effective internet use. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
Glass, Leah E. – Education and Urban Society, 2023
There is an increasingly large disparity in college graduation rates among low-income and first-generation college students. Research suggests that the main reason for this discrepancy is the lack of access to information and knowledge about the college process. First-generation students have fewer people in their social network who went to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Enrollment, Mentors, Social Capital
De Winter, Leo; Gutman, Leslie Morrison – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: Despite its importance for mental and physical health, many adults fail to meet current physical activity recommendations. Furthermore, most adults who begin a physical activity programme revert to being less active or even inactive within the first 6 months. Fitness bootcamps represent a potential intervention for improving physical…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Physical Fitness, Behavior Change
Laura Crane; Caroline Hearst; Maria Ashworth; Jade Davies – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2023
Background & aims: Exploring Being Autistic is an autistic-led group-based programme providing psychoeducation and peer support to newly identified/diagnosed autistic adults. In 2020, due to social distancing measures implemented following the coronavirus pandemic, Exploring Being Autistic was adapted for online delivery. Here, we aimed to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Program Effectiveness
Aggarwal, Savita; Kher, Jagriti; Vaid, Neeti; Kaur, Manpreet – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Education is fundamental to learning and is a pre-requisite for development. It is also imperative for sustained growth and development of a nation. There is still a long way to go for India in achieving Goal 4 and 5 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals quality education and gender equality by 2030. Despite several government initiatives and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Urban Areas, Economically Disadvantaged, Undergraduate Students
Dorimé-Williams, Marjorie; Plancarte, Vivianna – MDRC, 2022
In 2019, MDRC launched the Scaling Up College Completion Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) project to improve college completion rates for traditionally underserved students, such as students from low-income backgrounds and students of color, at community and broad-access colleges (those that have open or minimally selective admissions…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Learning, College Students, Community College Students
Dawnyéa D. Jackson; Dana E. Wagner; Penny Norman; Gray Abarca; Kim Zambole – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Similar to national trends, in Illinois, fatal opioid overdoses have risen. Black men (35+) outrank all other racial subgroups for the highest rate of fatal opioid overdoses in the state. To address this, Prevention First and the Illinois Department of Human Services developed a public health education campaign to support increasing enrollment in…
Descriptors: Adults, Males, Blacks, Drug Addiction
Lunsky, Yona; Bobbette, Nicole; Durbin, Janet; Gonzales, Angela; Grier, Elizabeth; Iruthayanathan, Renisha; Mia, Nadia; Pereira, Cheryl; Steel, Lee; Thakur, Anupam; Thomson, Kendra; Sockalingam, Sanjeev – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Introduction: Health and social service providers have limited expertise with regard to assessing and treating psychiatric disorders in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The aim of this study was to describe the development and pilot evaluation of a virtual capacity-building program (Project ECHO) focused on supporting the…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Konstantinidou, Ioanna; Dillenburger, Karola; Ramey, Devon – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Positive Behaviour Support is an applied behaviour analytic system of support that is utilised in schools and in residential care settings for children and adults with disabilities who engage in challenging behaviour. Implementation fidelity depends on appropriate staff training and organisational behaviour management. A systematic literature…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Effectiveness, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Christina Nicolaidis; Mirah Scharer; Dora M. Raymaker; Joseph Vera; Todd Edwards; Ian Moura; Mary Baker-Ericzén; Joelle Maslak; Liu-Qin Yang; Rachel Kripke-Ludwig; Steven K. Kapp; Andrea Joyce; Anna Wallington; Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE) Outcomes Project Team – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
People are increasingly recognizing the need for service interventions to improve the lives of autistic adults. However, less is known about how to best evaluate such services. We aimed to identify (1) which self-reported outcomes are most important to measure when evaluating the effectiveness of services for autistic adults and (2) what survey…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Peer reviewedKatherine Lass; Sarah Walsh; Kelly Burgess; Jeremy Kuperberg Levin; Eric Jenner – Grantee Submission, 2025
The purpose of this study was to evaluate Achievement Mentoring, a school-based mentoring program designed to enhance high school student retention and achievement once identified as being at-risk for dropping out before graduation. We present findings from an individual-level randomized controlled trial that included 393 10th and 11th-grade…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, High School Students, Academic Persistence
Wong, Paul W. C.; Zhu, Shimin; Li, Tim M. H.; Wan, Eppie H. Y.; Chan, Hallie H. L.; Yu, Vanessa S. W.; Fung, Kelly S. K.; Tse, Samson – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a three-session free-of-charge counselling model delivered by trained master's-level counsellors. Participants were 105 people whose scores represented mild or moderate levels on the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale and who had not been diagnosed or treated for any psychiatric illness in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
Webster, Riley – Administration for Children & Families, 2019
STEP Forward was a voluntary program in San Francisco that aimed to connect low-income job seekers to the labor market by using public funds to temporarily subsidize individuals' wages, known as subsidized employment, with the goal of ultimately increasing permanent unsubsidized employment among this population. STEP Forward offered job seekers…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Low Income Groups, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
