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. ...
Ashley Roberts is a senior researcher at AIR. She is the project director for the Federal Interagency Forums work at AIR which supports the production of the annual America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics and the Older Americans: ...
Experts on aging and health policy from AIR will present during the Gerontological Society of America’s 69th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, from November 16 – 20. More than 4,000 gerontologists will gather to discuss the broader role of aging science and addresses scholarly interest on the productive ...
This document describes the common goals and shared values between systems of care and child welfare, explains why child welfare should be involved in systems of care, and lists the benefits to child welfare from participating as part of a system of care.
School districts across the country are increasingly using online courses to expand credit recovery options for high school students who need to get back on track toward graduation. In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, AIR is working to provide evidence for practitioners and policymakers about how a ...
AIR’s Senior Child Welfare Specialist Kim Helfgott guided the team that developed this issue brief which outlines methods for assisting parents with mental illness, who also have children who receive treatment or services from mental health or child welfare programs.
Kristin Ruedel, managing researcher at AIR, currently serves as a task leader on the Center for Technology Innovation. Responsibilities include developing and writing of an Implementation Practice Guide including as well as providing support to field site liaisons and overall coordination of field test activities. She also collaborates with team ...
The foster care system was already overburdened before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now, it faces even more challenges. AIR early childhood expert and licensed foster mom Ann-Marie Faria discusses these challenges and potential ways to address them in the latest podcast episode.
Jessica Heppen, a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice, is the president & CEO of AIR. Dr. Heppen been with AIR for 20 years and, in that time, has held several key roles during her tenure.