California's Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is intended to provide an additional year of early education for younger children, with the goal of promoting their success in school. The Heising-Simons Foundation and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation are partnering with AIR to study the impact of TK on children’s academic and ...
Amy Syvertsen is a principal researcher in AIR’s Youth, Family, and Community Development area. Dr. Syvertsen is an applied developmental scientist, and a content expert in positive youth development in childhood and adolescence with an emphasis on the developmental processes and contextual supports that undergird strong youth-adult relationships and civic ...
Rekha Varghese is a managing researcher and deputy lead for the Evaluation, Methods and Analytics Program Area of the AIR Health Division. She is a health economist with more than 20 years of experience in domestic and international program evaluation and policy analysis. She has subject matter expertise in Medicare ...
This results of this review indicate that a general violence prevention program has the same probability of successfully reducing cyberbullying as a program that directly targets cyberbullying.
AIR and the Blue Shield of California Foundation are developing an "Innovations Scorekeeper" tool to help the foundation and its community clinic grantees in California measure progress toward improving patient care, population health and cost of care.
Young children experience various types of early care and education environments the year before they enter kindergarten. This report examines data to explore relationships between children’s primary care and education arrangements the year before kindergarten and their academic skills and learning behaviors at kindergarten entry. ...
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, implement, and continuously improve summertime experiences for all.
Trenita Childers is a health care policy researcher at AIR. Her work focuses primarily on health equity, social determinants of health, and communicating health information to broad audiences.
AIR is supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in developing online tools for Medicare beneficiaries to use when selecting Medicare health and prescription drug plans. The project centers on replacing the existing Medicare Plan Finder system that enables beneficiaries to find, compare, and ultimately enroll in coverage. ...
Youth engagement is a “win-win proposition”—it benefits young people, adults, and organizations. AIR interviewed six youth development organizations in Chicago to learn about their youth engagement strategies. This brief highlights five youth engagement strategies.