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1985
Launches employment program in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood
29 days later
1st job placement for a participant
1986
Job loss among participants leads to first experiments with reemployment, retention, and advancement assistance
1988
Wins Innovations in State & Local Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University
Publishes Changing What Counts: Rethinking the Journey Out of Welfare, which introduces the Incremental Ladder to Economic Independence, a radical reconceptualization of the welfare-to-work process
1992
Moves R&D division from Northwestern University to Erikson Institute
1995
Field-tests Pathways Case Management System in a Chicago welfare office
Opens employment program in West Haven, on Chicago’s Near West Side
1999
Partners with LISC/Chicago to provide technical assistance to local community-based organizations operating employment programs
2000
Receives Annie E. Casey Foundation's Families Count Award
2002
Consolidates all divisions into own 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation
2003
Pathways now operating in welfare agencies at multiple sites in California and New York
2004
Begins Pathways to Rewards pilot, an adaptation of Pathways for public housing
2005
In January, 4,109th job placement at the Chicago employment program
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