June 2024

What We're Talking About

Finding A Home for Mental Health

Tamara Daley details how mental illness data among people experiencing homelessness is currently tracked, how we can we better account for people struggling with mental illness, and best practices for helping those in need. Read more about ongoing efforts for change! Read more>> 

Lump Sum or Recurring: Can Cash Transfers Break the Cycles of Poverty?

Can recurring payments, lump sum assistance, or a combination of both best help families and individuals in poverty? Hannah Thomas writes that data from guaranteed income pilots in the US and Kenya are helping us ask the right questions. Read more>> 

Evaluating California's Project Roomkey 

Abt's recent evaluation of California's Project Roomkey found that more than 62,000 persons experiencing homelessness found safe housing in hotels and motels during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. This program continues to serve as an effective emergency housing model and, in turn, also helped participants permanently get off the street. Read more about the project's methods for evaluation and our full findings!

 Spotlight On: Monitoring

From routine methods and rapid feedback studies to client and community surveys, Abt’s monitoring efforts remain a key component of our research and evaluation approaches. Check out some of our largest monitoring projects to learn how our expertise can help you! Learn more about these projects >>   

Is Your State’s Literacy Approach Aligned with the Evidence?

Evidence use has the power to improve education outcomes for children and youth across the United States. With the Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA) up for reauthorization, Cara Jackson offers tips on using publicly available, evidence-informed resources from federal technical assistance centers to support states, districts, and schools in improving their instruction methods. Learn more >>   

AcademyHealth 2024 Annual Research Meeting (ARM)

Our research experts are heading to Baltimore! If attending ARM 2024, stop by booths 111 & 113 to chat with us, take a professional headshot, or check out one of our many presentations. We will also be participating in Contract Researching Networking Breakfast and the Job Fair! We look forward to connecting with you. Read more >>   

Social Media Highlight 

#SoundEvidence

What AHRQ Learned While Working to Transform Primary Care 

What works to support quality improvement in primary care? Abt supported the dissemination of findings from AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health, which provided external quality improvement support for small and medium-sized primary care practices to help improve their delivery of evidence-based cardiovascular care.  Read more about what AHRQ learned from the implementation of this important initiative. Learn more >> 

Additional Recent Publications 

• Can Direct Rental Assistance Offer a Better Way of Supporting Low-Income Families? 
  
  
• By-degree Health and Economic Impacts of Lyme Disease, Eastern and Midwestern United States 
  
  
• Advancing Economic Equity through Housing 

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Entomology Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Analyst, Nigeria

Senior Education-Focused Quantitative Researcher (Senior Associate), Rockville, MD 

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Director DRC Integrated Health Activities, Democratic Republic of the Congo 

Medicaid Research (Associate), Rockville, MD

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