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Improving Incarceration Rates for Indigenous Women
Project
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 16 times more likely to be incarcerated than non- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and recidivism rates are high, too. While in prison, women do not receive the support they need—such as…
Abt to Help Massachusetts Extract, Review and Analyze Opioid Overdose Data
Project
Identifying opioid overdose events in administrative records is not always straightforward. Not all people who overdose are taken to hospitals, and some overdoses are reversed by administering naloxone (Narcan), which can be done by first responders,…
Evaluating the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program
Project
Medicaid provides critical assistance that enables people with limited resources and incomes to access acute and preventive medical care and long-term services and support. Innovations that simultaneously improve care for beneficiaries and promote…
Preparing Oregonians for a Postsecondary Education
Project
In 2006, the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development (CCWD) launched the Oregon Pathways for Adult Basic Skills Initiative (OPABS) to better help low-skilled adults transition from the state’s Adult Basic Skills (ABS) programs…
SNAP to Skills (S2S) Technical Assistance Initiative
Project
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…
Mexico Competitiveness Program
Project
Good governance is critical to Mexico’s long-term competitiveness. Improved competitiveness, in turn, is the key to rational and efficient use of the country’s natural-resource base. This is particularly important for rural producers who live in…
Building a Knowledge Base to Teach Adults to Decode
Project
Decoding is an essential skill to read words that a person may only have heard spoken. It is not just important for children. Millions of U.S. adults are non-literate or can perform only simple, literacy tasks. They need decoding skills, too—although…
Developing the SafeWater CBX Benefit-Cost Model
Project
More than 140 unregulated chemicals contaminate public water supplies in 42 states. The risk to consumers is unclear because researchers haven’t figured out the threshold for when they cause harm. To weigh regulatory options, the Environmental Protection…
Behind HRSA’s Global HIV/AIDS Coordination
Impact Brief
HRSA program provides versatile TA for vast portfolio of HIV/AIDS Programs, furthers bidirectional US-Global learning agenda and local system strengthening for HIV services
Life Begins from Her Helping Hands
Impact Brief
The USAID Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity in Tajikistan is training scores of midwives to help improve the birthing process.