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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 -
National Third-Party Evaluation of WKKF’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Initiative
- January, 2018
- Posted by: Pamela Wells
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In 2017, the Will Keith Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) launched the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) initiative, a comprehensive, national, and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism. It seeks to unearth and jettison the deeply held, and often unconscious,... 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
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