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Racing Against Time: The CDC's Campaign to Prevent Zika Transmission
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The pictures from Brazil showed babies born with small heads or distended limbs. They were victims of Zika, the first mosquito-transmitted virus to cause devastating birth defects. Brazil and Puerto Rico reported growing numbers of Zika-related cases in…
Supporting Low-Income Veteran Households Experiencing—or At-Risk of Experiencing—Homelessness
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Supportive Services for Veterans Families (SSVF) is a Veterans Affairs program that provides grants to more than 250 private, non-profit organizations (grantees) and consumer cooperatives that rapidly re-house low-income Veteran households.
Dissemination and Evaluation Center
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Approaches to link and retain vulnerable people living with HIV (PLWH) in HIV primary care are critical to ending the HIV epidemic. While evidence-informed interventions exist, they have not been broadly adopted. That’s why the Health Resources and…
Welfare to Work Voucher Evaluation
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An important knowledge gap exists with respect to the role that housing assistance plays in promoting economic self-sufficiency among welfare recipients. To fill this gap, Congress appropriated funds for Section 8 tenant-based assistance to help…
Technology-Based Coaching in Adult Education (TBCAE) Toolkit
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The TBCAE Toolkit helps adult education program staff use text messaging to support adult learners’ participation and their attainment of education outcomes.
Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) Program: Six-Year Impact Report
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Washington State’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program did not produce educational or earnings impacts.
Implementing Registered Apprenticeship Programs: Experiences of 10 American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) Grantees
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Grantees used AAI’s flexibility to implement activities based on the needs of their target populations and service area employers, learning valuable lessons.
Occupational Training for Jobs That “Pay Well”: Patterns from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program
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A conflict can exist between the goals of serving TANF recipients and other adults with low incomes and training them for well-paid healthcare jobs.
Providing Employment Services to the Long-Term Unemployed: Implementation and Sustainability of the Programs in the Ready to Work Partnership Grant Evaluation
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Abt’s implementation study of the Ready to Work Partnership Grant program found that grantees used the program’s flexibility to address varying local needs.
Partial Indoor Residual Spraying with Pirimiphos-methyl as an Effective and Cost-saving Measure for the Control of Anopheles Gambiae s.l. in Northern Ghana
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Partial indoor residual spraying (IRS) is an effective, feasible, sustainable, and cost-saving approach that could expand IRS implementation.