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Evaluating the Citizen Schools Model

Evaluating the Citizen Schools Model

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Citizen Schools is a non-profit organization that partners with middle schools to expand the learning day for children in low-income communities. The organization mobilizes a “second shift” of afternoon educators who provide academic support, leadership…
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Helping Promise Neighborhoods Institute Fulfill Its Promise

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The Promise Neighborhood program is a place-based initiative designed to improve the educational outcomes of children through linked, holistic and evidence-based cradle-to-career interventions.  The program’s grantees provide a menu of services to the…
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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…
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Improving Literacy Through Experience

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The AARP Foundation’s Experience Corps (EC) is an evidence-based literacy tutoring program that targets schools within high-need communities where a significant portion of K-3 students are below grade level in reading. EC provides highly-trained,…
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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Job Search Assistance (JSA) Strategies Evaluation

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs typically provide job search assistance (JSA) in addition to their income-support role. JSA strategies can include group, one-on-one, or self-directed activities. While there is evidence JSA…
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Assessing the Family and Medical Leave Act

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The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guarantees eligible U.S. employees of covered employers job-protected unpaid leave to attend to their or their family’s eligible medical issues. Employees may have access to pay while on leave through other means…
Employment Coaching Evaluation for TANF

Employment Coaching Evaluation for TANF

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Coaching-based interventions have shown promise in a range of settings to help people identify and develop self-regulation skills needed to set and make progress toward goals. Building on a growing body of evidence, the Administration for Children and…
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Better Maps, More Investment: The Participatory Mapping and Planning (PMaP-1) Project

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Indonesia is an archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands. Traditionally, communities have mapped their borders, relying on natural landmarks. However, the number of communities with accurate maps remains low.   Resolving this uncertainty allows…
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Remote Sensing Analyses to Support the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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Classification of shoreline. Abt Global has used remote sensing throughout the natural resource damage assessment for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For the injury analysis, Abt staff developed a model of a current shoreline in a…