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Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) Modeling

Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) Modeling

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Abt Global’s staff has developed and implemented spatially specific modeling approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify, and often estimate the cost of, the impacts of climate change on a number of sectors and dynamics in…
Do Apprenticeships Help Workers and Employers?

Do Apprenticeships Help Workers and Employers?

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched the American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) to expand registered apprenticeships in the U.S. into sectors with few apprenticeships, such as healthcare and information technology (IT).
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Analyzing If An Oncology Care Model Will Improve Care and Lower Costs

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Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…
Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

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Infectious diseases can spread quickly through nursing homes, leading to high morbidity and mortality in this vulnerable population. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored this, causing over 1.7 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and almost 168,000 deaths among nursing…
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SNAP to Skills (S2S) Technical Assistance Initiative

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For the SNAP to Skills (S2S) technical assistance initiative of USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, Abt is partnering with the project lead, the Seattle Jobs Initiative, to create tools and resources for states to develop demand-driven Supplemental…
Evaluating REL Pacific’s Secondary Writing Toolkit

Evaluating REL Pacific’s Secondary Writing Toolkit

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Literacy—including writing—is closely tied to student success throughout K–12 education, impacting high school graduation and, ultimately, income after graduation. But students across the United States perform poorly on assessments of writing and,…
Communications Strategy for Updating of Pandemic Flu Mitigation Guidelines

Communications Strategy for Updating of Pandemic Flu Mitigation Guidelines

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An influenza pandemic is a major public health threat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needed a communications strategy to notify communities of the latest scientific findings on nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the wake of…
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Evaluating SMART Recovery in Active-Duty Service Members

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Abt is testing whether the SMART Recovery program can reduce risky drinking and support military readiness.
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Examining Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rent on the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…
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Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs

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Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…