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Evaluating Houston’s HueMan: Shelter: A Bloomberg Public Art Challenge for Homelessness and Community Change
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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No CommentsThe City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs and the Midtown Cultural Arts and Entertainment District have engaged Decision Information Resources, Inc. (DIR) to evaluate the HueMan: Shelter initiative, part of the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge. This initiative uses public art to address homelessness by involving unhoused individuals as contributing artists, fostering healing, dignity,... Read More -
Austin Quality-of-Life Study: Addressing the Needs of Young Children and Their Caregivers
- January, 2025
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The City of Austin has engaged DIR to conduct a detailed quality-of-life study focused on young children and their caregivers in the Austin/Travis County area. This study will describe the demographics of this population, including underserved and diverse communities, and identify key factors affecting their quality of life, such as childcare, housing, transportation, and education.... Read More -
NCR Medical Communications Strategy, Planning and Execution Support
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), is responsible for oversight of healthcare delivery operations for the largest Joint Multi-Service Market in all the US Military Health Systems. These responsibilities include developing and implementing transformational solutions and business practices to increase patient enrollment and satisfaction, recapture care and drive down military and private sector... Read More -
Evaluation of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternative Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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The national evaluation of the impact of the Procedural Justice Informed Alternatives to Contempt (PJAC) Demonstration, commissioned by the Office of Administration of Children & Families, will focus on factors such as the amount and regularity of child support payments, child support debt, the use of enforcement actions, and the employment and earnings of parents... Read More -
Follow-up Surveys to Test Alternative Rent Policies
- January, 2019
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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HUD’s Rent Reform Demonstration gives participating housing agencies the opportunity to adopt new policies on a trial basis and to learn from a careful evaluation whether they achieve benefits for tenants and the housing agency. The primary goal of the randomized controlled trial study is to test the effects of an alternative rent policy on... Read More -
In-person data collection for the Positive Adolescent Futures (PAF) Baseline and Follow-up Surveys
- December, 2018
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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The Positive Adolescent Futures (PAF) grant program is a key element of the federal strategy to support teens and young adults who are having or raising a child. Administered by the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), this grant program funded a second cohort of 17 grantees to develop and implement programs focused on outcomes, including... Read More -
Observations of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Implementation – Making Proud Choices (MPC)!
- September, 2017
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), commissioned an impact study of the effectiveness of the Making Proud Choices (MPC)! teen pregnancy prevention program. This study uses a random assignment design to measure the effectiveness of the program, as delivered in schools and by external health educators, with schools... Read More -
Multi-mode and longitudinal data collection of a teen pregnancy prevention study
- February, 2017
- Posted by: Chau Khong
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DIR partnered with Abt Associates to conduct surveys for the Study of Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP): Replication of Evidence-Based Programs, for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Office of Adolescent Health (within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). To determine the effectiveness of each of three... Read More -
Survey data collection for a multi-state neighborhood initiative
- December, 2015
- Posted by: Chau Khong
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The Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) was designed to support the redevelopment of distressed, assisted housing projects and the transformation of the neighborhoods surrounding them into mixed-income, high-opportunity neighborhoods. The study of CNI was designed to include both target and wider neighborhood sample in five sites—Seattle, New Orleans, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. Each target sample... Read More -
Household data collection for the National Meal Study
- June, 2013
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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In FY 2010, more than 31.7 million children each day received their lunches through the National School Lunch Program. Recognizing the national schools meal program as a cornerstone of the nation’s nutrition safety net for low-income children, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) contracted with Mathematica Policy Research and Decision... Read More -
CATI and Field data collection for the Housing Opportunities and Services Together (HOST) Demonstration Evaluation
- August, 2012
- Posted by: Jose Gonzalez
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Launched in December 2010, the HOST program is a multi-site demonstration designed to test innovative wraparound services—including housing upgrades and employment assistance for low-income families living in a range of public and mixed-income housing. The overall goal of the HOST demonstration was to develop comprehensive, coordinated service models to help vulnerable low-income families address traditional... Read More
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