Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2013
Publication Title
Journal of Community Practice
Volume
21
Pages
356-378
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation as a ‘process’ represents the emic definition of SS—psychological SS—but each dimension of the concept is reflected in varying degrees by group. Provider and participant views are vastly different from the outcome-driven policy and funder definitions. Implications for benchmarking psychological SS as an empowerment-based ‘process’ measure of job readiness in workforce development evaluation are discussed.
Identifier
10.1080/10705422.2013.852147
Recommended Citation
Hong, P.Y.P. (2013). Toward a client-centered benchmark for self-sufficiency: Evaluating the ‘process’ of becoming job ready. Journal of Community Practice, 21, 356–378.
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Author Posting. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Community Practice, 21:356–378, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2013.852147.