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Co-loading Summer EBT benefits on the same card with Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program benefits results in high Summer EBT redemption rates.

This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Read more about how branding amplified the story of our evaluation work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Electronic Benefit Program demonstration project.

A new blog examines how children’s savings account programs can support access to college for Black and Latine students.

Abt created a Practical Guide on Implementing a Trauma-informed Approach for SAMHSA’s Evidence-Based Resource Center.

With the burdens of student debt falling disproportionately on Black students, this blog suggests new policy responses to address the inequities.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Abt’s experts dive into how climate change aggravates the behavioral health pandemic and what steps can be taken to effect positive outcomes.

The pandemic may have made it harder for participants in the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program to find good jobs in healthcare.

This blog sheds new qualitative context to New York City’s poverty data, describing challenges the city’s citizens face.