Implementation Evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration (2009)

摘要

The implementation evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account (CAC) Demonstration describes the early experiences of demonstration sites, the characteristics of spouses who received CAAs and their military sponsors, and spouses' plans for using their CAAs as of when they enrolled in the demonstration. The evaluation was a two-pronged approach that consisted of a qualitative study on the demonstration sites and an accompanying quantitative study of descriptive statistics on a sample of the participants. This publication contains two reports, each of which focuses on one of these studies. The first report, Part I: Early Implementation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration, provides an overview of the demonstration and key findings about the demonstration's partnerships, early implementation experiences, marketing efforts, and other topics. The second report, Part II: Additional Findings from the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration Study, supplements the implementation study by providing additional information on implementation issues and quantitative information about the characteristics of participants, as well as their plans for using the CAAs for participation in education and training programs and the attainment of credentials, licenses, or certifications to support careers in high-wage, high-growth occupations.