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In this blog, Abt shares the insights gained from—and stories told by—people with lived experience in Rapid Re-housing Programs.

A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.

This paper reviews promising efforts to integrate employment services with treatment and recovery services for people with substance use disorder.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Influencers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are helping increase detection and treatment of tuberculosis.