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January 4, 2011 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study presents findings from a randomized, controlled evaluation of the Retention Specialist Program (RSP).
October 22, 2010 | Program Results Report
The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions fostered formal relationships between historically Black colleges and universities and health professions schools with few minority students.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
An evaluation of the WIN A STEP UP workforce development intervention for nursing assistants provided evidence for the viability of the program. Managers offered positive evaluation of the program and participants reported improvements in various aspects of their jobs.
January 31, 2004 | Program Results Report
The Center for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Learning convened two meetings of the annual Congress of Health Professions Educators in Washington.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
The Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative focused on the area of workforce improvement for direct care workers and was the result of collaboration between the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
April 27, 2011 | Program Results Report
Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
National Program
To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.
April 11, 2008 | Program Results Report
Chicago Health Connection developed and implemented a four-year pilot project that used nonmedical birth assistants known as doulas to help low-income single teen mothers in high-risk Chicago neighborhoods.
August 30, 2004 | Program Results Report
The Institute of Medicine developed a framework for how education, training and research in schools of public health could be strengthened to meet the needs of future public health professionals as they enter careers to improve public health.