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Our experts will bring together state and local leaders at AMCHP to explore how strategic investments can strengthen maternal and child health infrastructure, improve outcomes, and build lasting partnerships.

"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.

Abt’s evaluation of Medicare’s AIM found $381.5 million in savings, and raised questions about how those savings—and risks—are shared.

Abt’s evaluation of Medicare’s AIM found $381.5 million in savings, and raised questions about how those savings—and risks—are shared.

These briefs explore the policy implications of Abt’s evaluations of Compass Working Capital’s financial capability model of the Family Self-Sufficiency program.

This report from Abt provides qualitative context to New York City’s poverty data, describing challenges the city’s citizens face.