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CEIP The Community Employment Innovation Project

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CEIP The Community Employment Innovation Project

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  1. This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation • In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button • Select “Meeting Minder” • Select the “Action Items” tab • Type in action items as they come up • Click OK to dismiss this box • This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. CEIPThe Community Employment Innovation Project David Gyarmati, CEIP Deputy Project Director, SRDC Darrell Kyte, Researcher, SRDC Angus Gillis, Chair, New Waterford Community Board

  2. Session Outline Part 1 Community Employment Innovation Project Program Model, Research Design, and Implementation Part 2 Social Capital and CEIP A Clear and Measurable Definition Part 3 CEIP in New Waterford Implementation Challenges and Project Highlights Discussion

  3. Community Employment Innovation Project 1. Introduction: What is CEIP? 2. The Program Model: What does CEIP offer? • The offer to Individuals • The offer to Communities 3. The Research: What are we trying to Learn? • Research Questions • Research Design 4. Implementing CEIP • Recruiting Participants • Community Engagement and Mobilization • Types of Projects and Work Placements Created 5. Project Milestones and Research Timelines

  4. Introduction: What is CEIP? • A research and demonstration project studying the effects of community-based employment as an alternative to welfare and employment insurance • Test of an approach which aims to enhance the employability of participants while supporting community development • Focus on enhancing skills through work experience, strengthening of social capital, and improving community capacity in areas of chronic high unemployment • Gives communities control of projects and job creation

  5. Introduction: What is CEIP? • Sponsored by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and Nova Scotia Department of Community Services (NS-DCS) • Managed by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) a non-profit social policy research organization • Long-term study that began in 1999 and continues until 2008

  6. The Program Model:The offer to Individuals • Transfer recipients of EI and IA are offered 3 years of full-time employment on a variety of community projects • $312 per week (insurable) plus medical benefits • 35 hours work per week plus 15 days personal leave • Limited training (basic job readiness, core vocational) • Matched to jobs by skills, preferences, and location • Portfolio-building and Job search assistance • Must stop receiving regular EI or welfare benefits as their primary source of income

  7. The Program Model:The offer to Communities • 6 communities offered a workforce for up to five years (total of 750 workers) • $30,000 planning grant provided to each community • Access to community development expertise • Referral of CEIP workers to community projects and participant payroll are managed for the communities through central office • Each community must elect representative board and develop strategic plans through community consultation • Control over project priorities and approval process lies with communities – only limited guidelines provided

  8. The Research: What are we trying to Learn? • Will a significant number of unemployed workers accept the offer of a stable period of community service employment at relatively low wages? • Will taking part in community projects provide useful skills, work experience, and enhance social networks in a way that improves individuals’ employability? • Will this lead to improvements in post-program labour market outcomes and quality of life (e.g. increased employment, income, and reduced transfers and hardship)?

  9. The Research: What are we trying to Learn? • Can communities in Cape Breton generate worthwhile projects for the community which also provide meaningful work opportunities for unemployed workers? • Will planning for and operating these projects enhance community capacity and longer-run community development by strengthening both the social and market economy? • Is CEIP a cost-effective way to achieve these dual goals of increasing the employment prospects of individuals and contributing to community development?

  10. The Research Design Individual Impact Study Random assignment design • Participant Surveys at Baseline, 18, 40, and 54 months • Administrative Data on Transfer Receipt Community Effects • Theory of Change and quasi-experimental comparison communities design • 3-Wave Longitudinal Community Survey • Key Informant Interviews, Focus Groups, Administrative Indicators, Audit of the Community Organizations Implementation Research • Documentation of all phases of CEIP to evaluate implementation and extract best practices and lessons learned • Interviews, Process Observations, Document Analyses

  11. Recruitment of Participants • Successful Recruitment of study participants over a planned 2-year intake period from July 2000 to June 2002 • Random Selection from EI and welfare caseloads • Information Sessions and Informed Consent • 1006 EI beneficiaries and 516 IA recipients volunteered • Volunteers were well informed about the main features of CEIP and made an informed choice to join the study • Reasons given for rejecting the CEIP offer varied: • Among EI non-volunteers: mainly due to recall expectations or because CEIP wages were too low • Among IA non-volunteers: most common reasons for rejecting the CEIP offer were related to personal, family, or health problems

  12. Recruitment of Participants • Half of the volunteers were randomly assigned to the program group (761) eligible for CEIP while the other half serves as a counterfactual • There were no systematic differences between program and control group members for either the EI or IA study samples • Of 761 Program Group members who accepted the offer, 662 completed their enrolment and became eligible for CEIP community work placements • Size of the available CEIP workforce varies, with participants on inactive status at various times throughout the year • Currently 521 Active Participants

  13. Community Engagement • The offer was made in 1998/99 to 6 communities in CBRM through community consultation meetings • Following acceptance of the offer, communities formed steering committees to guide their involvement • 5 communities went on to elect representative boards and develop strategic plans through community consultation: New Waterford, Sydney Mines, Glace Bay, North Sydney, District 7 • Communities proceeded to solicit and approve projects from community sponsors, leading to the first set of CEIP work placements in September 2000

  14. Total Number of Projects 227 (March 2003) Types of Projects

  15. Total Number of Placements 883 (March 2003) Types of Placements

  16. Project Milestones and Research Timelines • Beginning in early 2004, the available CEIP workforce for communities begins to decrease steadily, with between 25 and 40 participants exiting the project each month • By July 2005, all participants will have exited the project, bringing formal project operations to an end • Research with participants and communities will continue until 2008 • December 2003: First CEIP Implementation Report • Summer 2004: Implementation research continues with communities leading to follow-up Implementation Report on best practices • Spring 2005: First report on Community Effects drawing on data from two waves of longitudinal community survey • Fall 2005: First report on Individual Impacts using 18-month follow-up interviews with participants and administrative data

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