While our name has changed, our commitment to addressing the world’s most pressing problems with equity and agility remains the same. We still go by “Abt,” in honor of our founder, but changing our name underscores the scope of our continuing—and evolving—mission to improve the quality of life and economic well-being of people worldwide. Read more >>
What have we learned from awardees implementing the CMS Integrated Care for Kids (#InCK) Model? Abt is leading a mixed methods evaluation design to assess the model. Dive into our latest report to learn more about how communities are making progress to coordinate holistic, health-related services for children.Read more>>
There is an alarming rise in older adults experiencing homelessness across the United States. Data are powerful in understanding homelessness, but there is a person, a family, a community behind every data point. In collaboration with Abt’s Community Connections partner Miriam’s Kitchen, we are proud to highlight a story of courage and resilience that takes us behind homelessness data. Follow Wesley Thomas’ compelling journey from experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C., to becoming an advocate and partner who is helping others find and move to stable housing. Read more >>
Co-design, co-implementation, and co-monitoring practices aren’t new. However, evolving health systems needs and changing partner capacities demand a shift in our localization approaches. In this blog, Mariam Reda shares three of Abt’s proven approaches to move from older rhetoric to future results.
Millions of Americans rely on home care for support after an injury or illness, and on hospice care for end-of-life support. Abt is helping the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services improve quality of care for home health and hospice patients through quality reporting programs.Learn more about this new project >>
Better evidence is needed on whether interventions that use specialized peer recovery coaches improve outcomes for families involved with child welfare due to parental substance use. Abt is conducting a multi-site longitudinal evaluation to provide evidence about the effectiveness of two of these interventions. Learn more >>
How are guaranteed income pilot programs improving outcomes for parents and their children? As a part of Abt’s longer-term Mayors for a Guaranteed Income evaluation, this report provides early insights from interviews with parents participating in programs in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Louisiana.Learn more about our findings>>
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Abt’s Judy Geyer, Jill Khadduri, and Hannah Thomas will be speaking on novel approaches to disrupting poverty including housing assistance, guaranteed income and asset building programs at Economic Mobility Pathways' (EMPath)Disrupting Poverty Conference this week in Boston, MA!
