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Social impact bonds and Pay for Success contracts for expanding education and social services

Noon, Tuesday, November 14 in Room 180 at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Judy Temple, HCRC co-director and professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs presented "Social impact bonds and Pay for Success contracts for expanding education and social services."

In the last 5 or 6 years, private investors have contributed millions of dollars to help expand cost-effective educational, health and social services at the state and local level with the expectation of being paid back if the services are successful in addressing specific social goals. Starting with private investments to help reduce recidivism, the use of social impact financing through Pay for Success contracts has expanded into financing preschool programming and social services such as reducing homelessness in the U.S. and abroad. This presentation highlighted some of the opportunities and challenges in the use of these social impact "bonds" and used recent results from Chicago in the expanded provision of preschool services funded  by Goldman Sachs and other private partners as the main illustrative example. 

Which paths of school and work lead students to success after graduation? A close look at the labor market outcomes of recent Minnesota graduates.

Noon, Tuesday, October 17 in Room 215 at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Alessia Leibert from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development presented "Which paths of school and work lead students to success after graduation? A close look at the labor market outcomes of recent Minnesota graduates." 

Alessia demonstrated the Graduate Employment Outcomes (GEO) tool, which she developed in 2014. Although the tool does not directly compare supply and demand, wages are the result of interaction between supply and demand, therefore, wages and wage growth over time tell us a great deal about which fields of study are in demand and which are not. She discussed evidence on the importance of finding a job in an industry sector closely related to one's field of study, the importance of full-time employment and continuous work histories, and the importance of learning skills in college that are strongly connected to a career path and transferable to other career fields in case of scarce job availability in the first career track of choice.

The NET-Works Trial: Linking families, communities and primary care to prevent obesity in preschool-age children

Noon, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 in Room 215 at Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Nancy Sherwood from the Obesity Prevention Center at the University of Minnesota will present "The NET-Works Trial: Linking families, communities and primary care to prevent obesity in preschool-age children."

The NET-Works (Now Everybody Together for Amazing and Healthful Kids) study is one of four obesity prevention and/or treatment trials that are part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment (COPTR) Consortium. The goal of NET-Works is to design an intervention that integrates strategies that promote healthy eating, activity patterns, and positive parenting into existing organizations and community-based programmatic initiatives utilized, trusted and valued by parents. To this end, the multi-component, multi-setting intervention includes home visiting, parenting classes (based on the ECFE model), pediatric primary care, and neighborhood connections. More than 500 racially/ethnically diverse and low-income two- to four-year-old children and their parent or primary caregiver were randomized to the multi-component intervention or to a usual care comparison group for a three-year period. 

Human Capital Research Collaborative Mini-Conference: Promoting Child Health and Well-Being

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center

This conference will introduce and overview the activities of the Human Capital Research Collaborative (formerly the Early Childhood Research Collaborative), a Partnership of the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Four presentations on child health and well-being will address critical issues in the first five years of children's lives. 

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