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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…
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Healthcare Career Pathways Program Helps More Low-Income Latinos Earn Credentials

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Most healthcare jobs require postsecondary education or training. But many low-income, low-skilled Latinos face barriers to completing even short-term training for entry-level jobs due to low basic skills, limited finances, and other personal factors…
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The Homeless Families Research Briefs: Combatting Homelessness with Data

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plays a key role in connecting homeless families to benefits, employment and other services needed to help them find housing and work toward self-sufficiency. The Homeless Families Research Briefs…
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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…
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Providing the First Forecast for Space Weather Effects and Impacts

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“Space weather” isn’t the next blockbuster movie franchise; it refers to conditions created by the sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere near Earth’s space environment that impact our planet. The effects of space weather can…
Evaluating the CQWBSC PHN’s Coordination of the GPLO Network

Evaluating the CQWBSC PHN’s Coordination of the GPLO Network

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The General Practitioner Liaison Officer (GPLO) Network aims to strengthen the link between Health and Hospital Services (HHSs) and general practice by identifying service gaps and improving the communication, the integration of services, and the…
PREA Audit System Provides Tool for Auditors to Conduct Sexual Safety Audits

PREA Audit System Provides Tool for Auditors to Conduct Sexual Safety Audits

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The Department of Justice's PREA standards outline requirements for preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement facilities. Each year, hundreds of confinement facilities must be audited for compliance with…
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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…
Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

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Studies indicate that dementia care in the United States is, generally, impersonal and fragmented. Massachusetts requires long-term care facilities to provide dementia care training to direct-care workers. The intention of the regulation was to address…
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PMI Evolve: Evolving Vector Control to Fight Malaria

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The World Health Organization estimates that about 608,000 people died from malaria in 2022, a slight decrease from the prior year, but still higher than before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Young children and pregnant women are among the…