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January 10, 2010 | 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).
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.
July 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This article describes the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative. BJBC 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 Result
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 Result
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 1, 2004 | Program Result
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.
September 1, 2002 | Program Result
The Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition - a national coalition of more than 200 organizational members representing diverse maternal and child health constituencies - held three separate national conferences on maternal and child health.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Connecticut State Medical Society implemented a grand rounds lecture series on addiction medicine and psychiatry, through simulcast and webcast, to 14 hospitals affiliated with the University of Connecticut and with Yale University.