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Using Data Analysis, Benchmarking, and Collaboration to Put High-GWP Refrigerants on Ice
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Abt’s Joe Donahue explains how programs like EPA’s Abt-supported GreenChill Partnership can help different sectors reduce hydrofluorocarbon emissions.
Des Moines Area Community College’s Workforce Training Academy Connect Program Three-year Impact Report
Publication
The study of WTA Connect found an impact on exam-based credentials and confidence in career knowledge, but no detectable impacts on employment, earnings, or family economic well-being.
Patient-Centered Care: It’s Not Just a Buzzword
Blog
The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting inspired this blog on the benefits of Abt’s approach to including patient perspectives in health care delivery.
Evaluating the Section 811 Rental Assistance Program
Project
The Section 811 program expands the housing supply for poor people with disabilities. Traditionally, HUD funded nonprofits to develop group homes and small rental developments exclusively for the disabled. Changes in Section 811 provide rental assistance…
Do Employers Earn Positive Returns to Investments in Apprenticeship? Evidence from Registered Programs under the American Apprenticeship Initiative
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Employers experienced positive returns on their investments in registered apprenticeships.
Finding a High-Quality Job in the Caring Industry: HPOG Participants’ Occupational Choices
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This brief presents insights from in-person interviews with 153 Health Profession Opportunity Grants participants about why and how they chose the health field and their occupation.
Research to Address Homelessness in California
Project
As affordable housing shrinks and poverty persists—particularly in the wake of COVID-19—California continues to face a complex homelessness crisis. To get a true understanding of the scope and nature of the challenge, the California Legislature passed a…
Helping Promise Neighborhoods Institute Fulfill Its Promise
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The Promise Neighborhood program is a place-based initiative designed to improve the educational outcomes of children through linked, holistic and evidence-based cradle-to-career interventions. The program’s grantees provide a menu of services to the…
Supporting the Planning and Evaluation of Louisiana’s Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
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Louisiana needs to rebuild its eroding coastline, which is degrading in part because levees prevent sediment from the Mississippi River from replenishing coastal areas. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) was proposed to reconnect the river to…