Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment

People with Depression

MDRC has tested a telephonic outreach and care management intervention for parents who receive Medicaid and have undiagnosed depression.

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BEES Site Profile: Breaking Barriers, San Diego, CA

The Breaking Barriers program, based in San Diego, provided employment services to lower-income individuals with disabilities. MDRC carried out a random assignment evaluation of the program. As part of the Building Evidence on Employment Strategies for Low-income Families project, MDRC is collecting additional administrative records to extend the original evaluation.

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Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers was a San Diego-based program that provided employment services to low-income individuals with a range of disabilities or other health conditions. Preliminary analyses based on a survey found that the program did not have an impact on the primary outcomes measured — employment, length of employment, and total earnings — during a 15-month follow-up period.

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Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment

A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression while the program was running, but it did not help individuals sustain treatment after the intervention ended. The program did not reduce depression on average, nor did it have any effect on employment outcomes.

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