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More than 150,000 families experience homelessness each year and are forced to seek emergency shelter or face life on the street. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development wanted to understand the most effective options to help these families. 

Coaches implemented the Family Development and Self-Sufficiency program as planned and helped participants build self-regulation skills to get and keep jobs.

Roca, Inc., a non-profit organization, aims to foster behavior change and improve outcomes for high-risk young adults. Recently, Roca has expanded its program throughout Massachusetts and to Baltimore, MD, and introduced a behavior change curriculum to…

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…

This brief, using data from three studies of programs with a career pathways framework, summarizes options for helping students balance school and work.

Health departments collect surveillance data on individuals with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. However, STI and HIV departments often have policies and practices impeding data sharing. Sharing and linking the data can help identify…

We consistently undervalue nature and its benefits; here are five ways we can address underlying governance issues to help ensure nature is better protected.

The prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) among pregnant women and the incidence of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) due to in-utero exposure to opioids have soared over the past two decades. The prevalence of NOWS among infants enrolled in…

Abt’s Natalie Matthews and Terri Mota connect the dots between homelessness and public health and discuss how we can do more moving forward in this podcast.