Publications
CEO Report, October 2007
CEO's Young Adult Program: Engaging Formerly Incarcerated Young People in the Workforce.
By Alana Gunn and Julie Peterson. October 2007, 9 pages.
The report introduces CEO's Young Adult Program in the context of the nationwide crisis of disconnected youth - young people neither in work or school. CEO's Young Adult Program addresses this issue by engaging 18-25 year olds coming home from prison or jail with a specialized version of CEO's comprehensive work program. The program, like CEO's regular programming, offers immediate, paid transitional work concurrently with placement into permanent employment, but offers extra support and coaching, and helps young people with little work experience and less maturity ease in to the workplace. CEO, through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses, found that Young Adult Program participants worked more days of transitional work, and were placed in permanent jobs at a higher rate than young adults of the same age at CEO who were not part of the program.
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CEO Report, August 2007
CEO's Rapid Rewards Program: Using Incentives to Promote Employment Retention for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.
By Jennifer L. Bryan, Alana Gunn and Stephanie Henthorn. August 2007, 11 pages.
CEO began an employment incentive program called Rapid Rewards in 2004. As participants are placed in jobs, they can bring their paystubs to CEO each month for up to a year and receive incentives of public transportation fare cards, supermarket vouchers and, at the end of the year, a check. The total value of the rewards is $615 per year.
In 2006-2007, CEO evaluated the Rapid Rewards program using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. This paper presents its findings for a general audience. In sum, CEO found that participation in the Rapid Rewards program predicted continued employment at 90, 180 and 365 days after job placement. There are two possible explanations for the effect-that the rewards themselves entice people to stay employed, or that the rewards enable an organization to better track people so that it can report more instances of employment retention at various milestones. Both argue for the benefits of a retention incentive system.
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The Power of Work
CEO has created a manual for replicating our model in other locations called The Power of Work.
In addition to The Power of Work we also offer the following manuals for workforce development and criminal justice agencies nationwide and internationally:
CEO's Young Adult Program: Engaging Formerly Incarcerated Young People in the Workforce.
By Alana Gunn and Julie Peterson. October 2007, 9 pages.
The report introduces CEO's Young Adult Program in the context of the nationwide crisis of disconnected youth - young people neither in work or school. CEO's Young Adult Program addresses this issue by engaging 18-25 year olds coming home from prison or jail with a specialized version of CEO's comprehensive work program. The program, like CEO's regular programming, offers immediate, paid transitional work concurrently with placement into permanent employment, but offers extra support and coaching, and helps young people with little work experience and less maturity ease in to the workplace. CEO, through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses, found that Young Adult Program participants worked more days of transitional work, and were placed in permanent jobs at a higher rate than young adults of the same age at CEO who were not part of the program.
Read the full report
CEO Report, August 2007
CEO's Rapid Rewards Program: Using Incentives to Promote Employment Retention for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals.
By Jennifer L. Bryan, Alana Gunn and Stephanie Henthorn. August 2007, 11 pages.
CEO began an employment incentive program called Rapid Rewards in 2004. As participants are placed in jobs, they can bring their paystubs to CEO each month for up to a year and receive incentives of public transportation fare cards, supermarket vouchers and, at the end of the year, a check. The total value of the rewards is $615 per year.
In 2006-2007, CEO evaluated the Rapid Rewards program using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. This paper presents its findings for a general audience. In sum, CEO found that participation in the Rapid Rewards program predicted continued employment at 90, 180 and 365 days after job placement. There are two possible explanations for the effect-that the rewards themselves entice people to stay employed, or that the rewards enable an organization to better track people so that it can report more instances of employment retention at various milestones. Both argue for the benefits of a retention incentive system.
Read the full report
The Power of Work
CEO has created a manual for replicating our model in other locations called The Power of Work.
In addition to The Power of Work we also offer the following manuals for workforce development and criminal justice agencies nationwide and internationally:
- Recruitment, Intake, and Transitional Employment for Those with Criminal Records
- Job Coaching & Job Development for Those with Criminal Records, and
- An Executive & Financial Guide to Building a Transitional Work Program for Those with Criminal Records
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