A selection of our projects.
Evaluation of the Refugee Social Services (RSS) and Targeted Assistance Formula Grant (TAG) Programs
This study evaluates how effectively the RSS and TAG programs improve refugees’ employment and income over time. It is identifying effective practices, capturing the diversity in the population and service delivery, and producing a plan for evaluation.
Multisite Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs
This five-year evaluation examines the effects of Independent Living Programs in achieving key outcomes for participating youth, including more education, higher employment rates and stability, greater relationship skills, fewer nonmarital pregnancies, and reduced delinquency and crime rates.
Evaluation of Minnesota’s Service Integration Project
The project—operating in eight sites across Minnesota—focuses on improving the delivery of employment, health, and social services to families who receive cash assistance and have barriers to employment. LHP's evaluation of the program includes an implementation and process study and an analysis of the effects on economic outcomes.
Partnership for Fragile Families (PFF) Evaluation
LHP is conducting a five-year, national evaluation of the PFF demonstration projects operating in nine states. Each project seeks to develop services for young, noncustodial fathers and their families and children.
Study of Child Care Providers and the Subsidy System
This study examines the characteristics of licensed child care providers, compares the characteristics of those who participate with those who do not, and explores whether subsidy policies and practices affect providers’ willingness and ability to participate in the subsidy system.
Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households
This project assesses policy regarding asset building with particular attention to assets and the poor. The project includes overviews of asset definitions and measurement, distributions of assets and liabilities, effects and determinants of asset accumulation, and the effect of means-tested welfare program policies on asset holding.
Evaluating the Impact of Family Planning Male Reproductive Health Research Grants
The purpose of this project is to design an instrument to evaluate male reproductive health activities funded by the Office of Family Planning. The project will examine each program’s goals and objectives, target populations and surrounding environments, logic models and the instruments that might be used to measure program inputs, outputs, and outcomes.
Life after Transitional Housing: Tracking Homeless Families after They Leave HUD-Assisted Transitional Housing
This project evaluates the effects of participation in a transitional housing program on homeless families. The goal is to learn what happens to homeless families who graduate and leave HUD-assisted transitional housing. The main effects examined are family residential and household stability, and children’s school attendance and behavior.