Welcome to the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project. We are pleased that you have agreed to participate. As a study participant your involvement is critical to success of this study!
As you may remember, PACE is a ten-year effort aiming to refine, evaluate, and promote knowledge about career pathways programs. There are nine programs in PACE, representing different parts of the country. To learn how well these programs are working, we are comparing participants who receive career pathways program services to those who receive other services available in their communities. As you know, PACE uses a lottery-like process, called random assignment, to assign those who agree to be in the study to either a treatment group who can participate in the career pathway program or a control group who cannot, but who can receive other services.
To help us understand how well the program and other services are working, the PACE team will periodically contact you to gather some additional information. It is important to get feedback from everyone in the study, even if you did not receive any services. Someone from an organization called Abt SRBI will call you to ask you to complete a survey sometime after you agreed to participate in the study. You will receive a letter in advance of the survey that will describe the survey, when it will happen and how long it will take. While you do not have to complete the survey, we hope that you do because your responses will help us understand how to help people like you advance in jobs.
Abt SRBI will be using the address, email and telephone information you provided when you joined the study to contact you. If you have moved or your information has changed, please let the PACE team know : .*
To learn more about the PACE project, we encourage you to browse through this website. For general information about the project, please visit the Project Overview and Frequency Asked Questions pages. To see what other programs are participating in the PACE Project, please look through our Partner Sites page. To read more about the project, please look through our PACE Documents page.
We will continue to provide updates to study participants over the course of the project on this page. Please check back to keep track of the latest news!
If you have any questions or concerns about the study, please feel free to contact the PACE Project Director, Karen Gardiner.
* Please understand that email is not a secure way to send sensitive data; therefore please do not send anything beyond your contact information (name, address, phone number, etc.) via email.