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Abt Evaluates Family and Early Childhood Workforce Needs for Rhode Island’s PDG B-5
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Rhode Island’s Preschool Development Grant – Birth through Age Five (PDG) grant is being used to implement a plan to ensure all children from birth through age 5 (B-5) are supported by services and programs that will prepare them for lifelong success. To…
Evaluating Child Welfare Community Collaborations
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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is transforming the field of child welfare by supporting communities’ efforts to prevent child maltreatment, rather than only respond once it occurs. ACF funded two cohorts of grantees under the Child…
The 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress: Pt. 1 2021 Point-in-Time Estimates of Sheltered Homelessness
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HUD’s 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress found enhanced social safety nets implemented due to COVID helped keep families out of shelters.
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), Housing Instability, and Housing Options for Recovery
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More than six in 10 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. involve an opioid, and an estimated 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the homeless who survive an opioid overdose and…
Evaluating the Workforce Innovation Fund
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The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…
Evaluation of the Department of Interior Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program consists of 167 restoration, mitigation, and science projects to develop and implement best practices for improving coastal resilience to sea-level rise, storm surge, and…
Spotlight On: Machine Learning
Spotlight On
Abt uses machine learning to do things that until recently would have been impossible, such as categorizing a vast amount of unstructured text into main themes or counting mosquito eggs from a smartphone picture using image recognition.
Investigating Housing Models for Accelerating PSH Production Final Report
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Abt evaluated two different programs in Los Angeles to support the creation of permanent supportive housing and found some promising approaches.
Supporting Priority Public Health Initiatives at CDC
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is charged with creating the expertise, information, and tools needed for health promotion, disease prevention, injury and disability, and preparedness. As a result, CDC needs partners poised to…