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EPA’s Safer Choice Program
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In a recent rebrand of their product labeling program, EPA unveiled the new name and logo for the Safer Choice Program. The Safer Choice Program helps consumers, businesses, and purchasers find products that perform and are safer for human health and the…
Modeling Biota Losses from Cooling Water Intake Structures
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Power plants’ cooling systems often are located along coastal waterways and use large amounts of water from oceans, bays and estuaries. As millions of tiny aquatic organisms in the water such as fish eggs and larvae pass through the power plant, the heat…
How TANF and Refugee Cash Assistance Serve Refugees
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees federal efforts to resettle refugees and help them become self-sufficient. ORR administers the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) program, which…
Enhancing the Efficiency of NOAA NMFS’s Consultation Process
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TSPi designed, built, and implemented a central replacement case-management application, the Environmental Consultation Organizer (ECO), to handle submissions for consultations. The consultations can include the initial submission of project blueprints, feedback from NMFS, and more back-and-forth until final approval.
Messaging Campaign to Reduce Orphanage Use in Cambodia Provides Mixed Results
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Some Cambodian parents fear they can’t give their kids food, clothes, and education – a future. So these desperate parents hand their children over to orphanages, though they aren’t orphans. The children often face poor care and family separation at best…
Evaluating Child Care Recovery Post-Disaster
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In the aftermath of disasters, children benefit from returning to normal routines. Save the Children, U.S. Programs (SCUS) offers direct resources and supports that enable child care centers to reopen, providing children with safe, familiar environments…
Job Corps Evidence Building (JCEB) Portfolio
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The goal of the project is to strengthen capacity for evidence-building in the federally funded Job Corps program, which serves youth disconnected from education and employment. The project also is to generate new evidence about the effectiveness of…
Evaluating the HomeStart Eviction Prevention Program
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HomeStart is a Boston-based nonprofit organization with a goal of eliminating homelessness due to eviction for non-payment, notably for families with subsidies and the working poor in Massachusetts. Eviction is costly not only for tenants but for…
CREST and QCS System Re-entry Service Provision
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Re‐entry services help those released from detention avoid re‐offending, succeed on parole, and remain out of custody. To achieve this, reintegration programs must be responsive to the multiple factors that can influence behaviour change. These services…
Developing the COBRA Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool
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Estimating and monetizing public health benefits from reductions in emissions can be a complicated process requiring expertise in air quality modeling, health impact valuation and the monetization of health benefits. Because of this, researchers,…