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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…
Finding a High-Quality Job in the Caring Industry: HPOG Participants’ Occupational Choices
Publication
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.
Spotlight On: Enhancing Lives Through Human-Centered Design
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Planning for Catastrophe: Developing Resilient Supply Chains
Blog
In this blog, Abt’s James White outlines what it might take to create resilient supply chains that can function unimpeded during crises such as COVID-19.
Spotlight On: Protecting Children and Promoting Healthy Families
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Reducing infant mortality. Supporting child welfare agencies. Preventing abuse and neglect. Abt’s work helps support the backbone of policies and programs that protect those who are most vulnerable.
Spotlight On: Improving Access to High-Quality Healthcare Through Strategic Purchasing
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Helping country health systems change how they pay for health care to improve quality, efficiency, patient outcomes, and patient satisfaction.
VIDA Program Shows Promising Educational Results
Project
Low-income workers with only a high school education face poor and declining employment prospects. Policymakers, workforce development organizations, educators and other key stakeholders are interested in how to facilitate a better match between the…
How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program
Publication
Our analysis of HPOG subgroups defined by program experiences found weak evidence that long-term credentials led to meaningfully larger earnings impacts.
Spotlight On: Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)
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By combining technical, communications, and behavior-change expertise while applying the principles of behavioral-economics, Abt campaigns successfully encourage audiences to adopt recommended actions.