PPA 502 – Program Evaluation

1. PPA 502 – Program Evaluation JobSource Benefit-Cost Analysis

2. Competing Models of JobSource Referral • Agency referral model • The model established the Department of Child Support Services as the focal agency to refer noncustodial parents for job search assistance, job training, and work experience.

3. Competing Models of JobSource Referral • Self-referral model • The accessibility of the JobSource Center allowed Department recipients and obligors (payers) to assess their own job search, training, and employment needs.

4. Effects coefficients - Conservative • Net effects of models (adjusted for inflation, seasonality, unemployment, and time-series biases). • Agency referral: <$16,712>+$2,322 = <$14,390>. • Self-referral: $2,322. • Average monthly agency referrals: 16.81. • Average monthly self-referrals: 96.52. • Average monthly effect of agency referrals: <$241,896>. • Average monthly effect of self-referrals: $224,119. • Average monthly effect of JobSource: <$17,777>.

5. Effects coefficients - High • Net effects of models (adjusted for inflation, seasonality, unemployment, and time-series biases). • Agency referral: <$12,129>+$3,907 = <$8,222>. • Self-referral: $3,907. • Average monthly agency referrals: 16.81. • Average monthly self-referrals: 96.52. • Average monthly effect of agency referrals: <$138,212>. • Average monthly effect of self-referrals: $377,104. • Average monthly effect of JobSource: $238,892.

6. Benefits and Costs of JobSource

7. Net Benefits – October 2003 to Decmeber 2005 - Conservative

8. Net Benefits – October 2003 to December 2005 – High Estimate

9. Other Direct Benefits • Child support recipients and JobSource: • Benefits to family do not go through child support. • If only 15 of 97 monthly client contacts with JobSource were recipients and not obligors, $900,000 net loss would disappear.

10. Indirect Benefits • Educational attainment. • Life-time earnings. • Reductions in crime.