The AIR Equity Initiative is addressing systemic inequalities in the U.S. and globally through our focus on four key areas—educational equity, public safety and policing, workforce development, and community health and well-being. Explore our project library.
Health and human service systems are increasingly interested in adopting a public health approach to promote child wellbeing and prevent adverse childhood experiences. Unfortunately, adopting a public health approach to the myriad health and social issues of young children has proven difficult. Many child-serving systems do not know where to ...
Linking health data across multiple sources and health systems provides crucial information to predict, prevent, and control health threats, as well as to inform health policy. AIR is supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in developing a coordinated Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) strategy. PPRL, a process of linking ...
As communities across the country mark National Recovery Month, Roger Jarjoura explains why recovery can be particularly challenging for youth, and how the juvenile justice system must address their specific needs.
Researchers from the American Institutes for Research will give presentations on a broad range of education research topics during the Society for Research on Education Effectiveness conference March 4-7, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The conference theme, Learning Curves: Creating and Sustaining Gains from Early Childhood through Adulthood, explores the role ...
In collaboration with our partners, government leaders, and field experts, AIR has worked to strengthen the evidence base, provide evidence-backed equity resources, and support equal access to programs that can help people and communities thrive.
With government-supported preschool alive, recovering from the recession, and growing again at the state level, Susan Muenchow offers three central questions when considering preschool expansion.
The TA Partnership provides technical assistance to state, regional, and county system of care communities currently funded to operate the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, including those that have juvenile justice-involved youth as a population of focus. ...