Research shows that traumatic experiences prior to and during military service can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of women Veterans, increasing their risk for homelessness. Traumatic experiences can also affect ability to maintain health and sustain employment. With advances in awareness of the prevalence and impact ...
As part of its Pay for Success work, AIR developed a workaround to common data obstacles these projects face. AIR was contracted to develop the evaluation design for the San Diego-based Project (re)Launch, which sought to improve employment and health outcomes for veterans with service-connected disabilities by providing intensive case ...
The Pay for Success/Social Impact Bond (PFS/SIB) model is an innovative, multi-stakeholder partnership funding mechanism in which government and philanthropic organizations provide upfront funding for program implementation under the umbrella of pay-for-performance principles. This presentation from the 2017 European Society for Prevention Research Conference critically reviews how the model has ...
Dr. Patricia Campie is a principal researcher in the Human Services program at AIR. Utilizing 27 years of experience, Dr. Campie’s primary research focus is on preventing and reducing lethal violence among youth and young adults in the United States and other countries, serving as AIR’s P.I. for USAID’s Center for ...
In 2010, Massachusetts invested in the Massachusetts Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI), an initiative launched in eleven cities with the highest per capita rates of violent crime. This report presents the findings and methodology from the Community-based Violence Prevention (CBVP) study of the SSYI's impact on violent crime in ...
What can be done right now to prevent firearms violence—from suicide, to rampages by those who are mentally ill, to acts of terrorism—without heavy reliance on the federal government? Patricia Campie suggests what states, cities, employers, and communities can do.
The Massachusetts Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) is a multifaceted, community-based strategy that combines public health and public safety approaches to eliminate serious violence among proven-risk, urban youth ages 17–24. The most recent implementation and impact study illuminated a clear distinction between cities with SSYI relative to similarly violent ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.
The CAMINOS project seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity of federal and state labor inspectorates to improve labor inspections, labor law enforcement and compliance strategies, and labor inspector engagement with supply chain actors in United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement priority sectors. ...