Kathleen Guarino is a senior technical assistance consultant at AIR with expertise in child mental health, trauma, and trauma-informed care. In this Q&A, she discusses the challenges—and some unexpected opportunities—around mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine.
Apprentice retention is a dynamic process that is affected by multiple factors that change over time. This brief, Improving Apprenticeship Completion Rates, summarizes the findings of our review of studies on apprentice retention and provides recommended strategies to mitigate factors negatively affecting attrition. ...
Experts with AIR are available to offer insights on issues raised by President Barack Obama during last night's State of the Union address to the nation, including the call to use education to better prepare Americans for the workplace and to address the challenges facing Medicare.
On July 23, AIR will host an evening of reflection, discussion and engagement to shine the light on HIV/AIDS in the American rural South, as more than 25,000 service providers, advocates, policy makers and researchers are convened in Washington, D.C. for the International AIDS Conference (IAC). More than 150 guests ...
AIR is evaluating Prime Time Sister Circles®, a program designed to help mid-life African-American women take control of their health by improving health habits, monitoring and managing key health indicators (hypertension and weight), reducing stress, increasing physical activity, and improving nutritional choices. ...
While the DC Free Summer Meals program offers no-cost food to students throughout the city, families have often had difficulty finding the locations where meals are available. As a part of AIR’s Socially Responsible Analytics Initiative, we partnered with the District of Columbia Public Schools to build a website that ...
The initiatives to enhance adult learning program accountability and assessment systems of the following states are described in this paper: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, Washington, West Virginia.
Karla López de Nava is an expert on healthcare policy and quantitative analysis, focusing on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts on Medicare payment policy, value-based care model design, operation, implementation, and evaluation. She has over 15 years of experience managing federal and state projects, directing, and overseeing ...
Why are so many Americans more concerned about Ebola than flu, when the data doesn't support that fear? Researchers have found that unfamiliar, epidemic diseases (such as Ebola) are more likely to cause concern than familiar, endemic diseases, such as the flu. Add the high death rate of Ebola overseas ...
Approximately 28 percent of U.S. adults have several of the risk factors for pre-diabetes but only one out of six are aware of it, according to an AIR study that found providing services that would prevent or delay the onset of the disease could generate savings for the federal government ...