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Evidence for Program Improvement: Core Components of Effective Youth Programs
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Evidence for Program Improvement was established by The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to develop evidence-based practice guidelines for youth programs (e.g., community, mental health, public health, child welfare settings,…
Tracking Minnesotans' Access and Use of Home and Community-based Health Services
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Minnesota’s Department of Human Services wanted to leverage existing state data to develop measures to help monitor access to Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS). To build on our prior work evaluating critical access to the state’s…
Evaluating the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs)
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The Institute of Education Sciences’ Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) provide applied research and trainings to state and local education agencies. Their mission is to support a more evidence-based educational system. To determine whether the…
Communications Strategy for Updating of Pandemic Flu Mitigation Guidelines
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An influenza pandemic is a major public health threat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needed a communications strategy to notify communities of the latest scientific findings on nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the wake of…
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
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Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Improving Patient Choice: Meaningful Measures of Home Health and Hospice Care Quality
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To help patients and their families find high quality home health and hospice care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires support for developing and maintaining patient assessment tools and quality measures for its Home Health and…
Reimagining Response to Vulnerable Populations in Crisis
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Homelessness and untreated serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorders (SUD) are at the root of many crisis-related calls for emergency services. However, first responders often lack the necessary information, skills, resources, or…
CAATCH Improves Outcomes For Women & Youth With HIV
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Two major challenges in efforts to suppress HIV are client engagement and retention in treatment. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MADPH) awarded Abt Global the Consumer Access and Adherence to Care for HIV (CAATCH) contract to develop and…
Growing Our 12-Plus Year Collaboration with NYC’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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Among large cities, New York City (NYC) is unique due to the diversity of its more than 8 million residents. Residents come from a variety of countries, speak multiple languages, have varying degrees of mobility and literacy, and live in a variety of…
GuideME: EPA’s Tool for TRI Reporting Guidance
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced discontinuation of support for legacy Lotus Notes databases, which had previously hosted archives of reporting guidance materials that were inaccessible to the public. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)…