The Sustainable Community Schools (SCS) strategy administered by Chicago Public Schools is unique in its focus on enhancing school-day instruction and supports. AIR will work in partnership with the diverse stakeholders associated with the SCS initiative to determine the degree to which the SCS model is aligned with these essential ...
Malnutrition is one of the most serious global health problems. Advancing the knowledge base about the effects of nutrition and early childhood development programs on nutrition outcomes is particularly important in Bangladesh. AIR is evaluating a large-scale nutrition program and a pilot program to combat malnutrition in the country.
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School districts around the country are increasingly looking to community schools as models to both respond to ongoing youth and family needs made more poignant by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a platform for providing opportunities for positive youth development that accelerate equitable student outcomes in education, health, and employment. ...
In this 18-month study funded by National Institute for Research, AIR researchers, in partnership with leading mentoring scholars, seek to better understand the change mechanisms in youth mentoring using a rich dataset of close to 2,000 mentor-mentee pairs that were part of a previous study AIR concluded in 2018. ...
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), formed in 2008, has been coordinating federal activities to support positive outcomes for youth by sharing information; deepening collaboration and understanding across departments, agencies, and offices; creating a robust web presence; and developing and advancing the strategic plan for youth. ...
Millions of children across the United States benefit from mentoring every year. Selected by the U.S. Library of Congress, AIR conducted a five-year evaluation of mentoring enhancement demonstration programs funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The goal was to assess whether strategic enhancements to the roles ...
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
The Florida Network for School Improvement (FNSI) is a community of schools focused on improving math proficiency for Black and Latino/a students and students experiencing poverty. Participating schools work together to address challenges related to student outcomes by employing continuous improvement cycles that aim to identify, test, and refine instructional ...
The Service and Housing Interventions for Families in Transition (SHIFT) Longitudinal Study examines and compares the long-term outcomes of families entering shelters, transitional housing programs, and permanent supportive housing programs in four communities in upstate New York.
This project focuses on strategies and best practices for improving the lives of African American males in the child welfare system. The goals are to assist foster parents in supporting positive outcomes for the children and youth in their care and to help judges, juvenile court staff, and ...