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Evaluator(s)	MDRC
Investigator(s)	Robert Granger (William T. Grant Foundation) Janet Quint (MDRC) Hans Bos (MDRC) Denise Polit (MDRC)
Sponsor(s)	MDRC
Funder(s)	US Department of Labor Ford Foundation W.K Kellogg Foundation DeWitt Wallace- Readers Digest Fund Meyer Memorial Trust UPS Foundation Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PEW Charitable Trusts Stuart Foundation William T. Grant Foundation Skillman Foundation David and Lucile Packard Foundation AT&T Foundation Bush Foundation Foundation for Child Development Exxon Corporation Chase Manhattan Foundation Koret Foundation ARCO Foundation General Electric Foundation National Foundation for Employment Policy Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Allstate Foundation Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Honeywell Foundation Pillsbury Company Foundation Kaiser Permanente Anonymous
Subcontractor(s)	Not applicable

Domain	Income Security/TANF
Status	Completed (final report released)
Duration	Aug 1989 - Jul 1997
Type	Research and/or Program Evaluation
Goal	To evaluate the components of New Chance.
Program/Policy Description	New Chance seeks to help teenage mothers acquire educational and vocational credentials and skills so that they can secure jobs offering opportunities for advancement and could thereby reduce, and eventually eliminate, their use of welfare. Those eligible for New Chance include young mothers 16 - 22 years of age who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), had their first child as a teen, and lack a high school diploma or its equivalent. The New Chance Observational Study is an in-depth examination of parenting behavior in 290 of the 2,322 families studied in the New Chance Demonstration.
Notes	Includes the New Chance Observational Study, a study of parenting and parent-child interactions among 290 families participating in the New Chance Demonstration.

Last Updated	08/27/98
Type of Summary	Reviewed
External Reviewer(s)	Robert Granger (William T. Grant Foundation)
Contact(s)	Judith Greissman (not reported) MDRC 16 East 34th Street 19th Floor (T) (212)-532-3200 (F) (212)-684-0832
Publications Department	MDRC Publications (publications@mdrc.org) MDRC 16 East 34th Street 19th Floor (T) (212) 532-3200 (F) (212) 684-0832

Populations Studied

Target Population

Recipients/participants/clients
Applicants
Children

Subgroups Analyzed

Pregnant/parenting teens
Single parent families

Sample Size and Unit

2,322 welfare clients and persons at risk of going on welfare.

Sample selected according to eligibility criteria: 16-22 years old; first gave birth age 19 or younger; not pregnant at time of enrollment; high school dropout (94% of sample) or high school graduate/holder of GED with reading scores below ninth-grade level (6% of sample); receiving ADFC (95% of sample) or economically disadvantaged according to Job Training Partnership Act (5% of sample); ability to speak, read, and understand English.

Random sample of 1,553 (67% of sample) in program group (who were allowed to enroll in New Chance) and 769 (33% of sample) in control group (who did not have access to New Chance services but may find alternate services in their communities).

Sites Studied

Chula Vista, California
Inglewood, California
San Jose, California
Denver, Colorado
Jacksonville, Florida
Chicago Heights, Illinois
Lexington, Kentucky
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bronx, New York
Harlem, New York
Portland, Oregon
Salem, Oregon
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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