Independent Choices: Enhancing Consumer Direction for People with Disabilities
National Program
Program to foster the development of consumer-directed home and community-based services for people of all ages with chronic disabilities.
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Free To Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities
National Program
Program to support selected Head Start agencies to adapt and evaluate innovative substance abuse prevention models that aim to strengthen a young child's environment, specifically the family and community.
Faith in Action: Replication of The Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Program
National Program
Program to help support the establishment of approximately 1,100 interfaith volunteer caregiver projects for all ages with chronic health conditions.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
National Program
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
Housing Strain, Mortgage Foreclosure, and Health
October 12, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examines housing status and its impact on health by using a cross-sectional design of 798 residents in California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida. This study contributes to understanding how deficits in material resources can impact health, even when controlling for income.
Providing Aid to Children Released to North Carolina from Immigrant Detention
October 22, 2010 | Program Result Report
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants developed a pilot project to provide aid to children who are released from immigrant detention in North Carolina - which has one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country.
Patients' Unmet Social Needs: Health Care's "Blind Side"
March 23, 2012 | Story
Nurses invited to join RWJF discussion on ways to integrate social needs into health care delivery.
Testing Care Coordination for Veterans with Dementia
March 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the Benjamin Rose Institute conducted a controlled research study of a Partners in Dementia Care intervention to reduce the use and cost of health care services and improve psychosocial outcomes for veterans and their families.
My First Place, A Program of First Place for Youth
March 1, 2012 | Evaluation
My First Place, a program of First Place for Youth provides critical services to young adults ages 18-24 who have aged out of the foster care system. Independent researchers conducted a formative evaluation from June 2010 through March 2012.
Advocate Puts a New Twist on the Traditional Soup Kitchen
November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader creates an organization that serves up healthy, locally grown fare to New Jersey's hungry and homeless.