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Improving Awareness of and Enrollment in New York's Post 9/11 Temporary Disaster Relief Medicaid Program
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks damaged the computer systems of New York City's Medicaid program, city and state officials established a temporary, simplified enrollment process for public health insurance, called Disaster Relief Medicaid.
A Cost-Effectiveness Assessment of Employment Services in Supportive Housing
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
According to a 2007 report by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, the number of people in this country who were living in shelters or were unsheltered in January 2005 totaled 75 ...
Coalition Interaction
October 14, 2003 | Evaluation
This memo explores the extent to which the state and local coalitions comprising Covering Kids & Families® (CKF) possess important coalition attributes.
In Puerto Rican Community, Families Help Others Combat Drug Abuse Through Head Start
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Aspira de Puerto Rico developed a family-to-family peer mentoring model of substance abuse prevention based on the Latino concept of compadres (godparents).
Head Start/Anti-Substance Abuse Program Falters in New Jersey
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
Concerned Parents for Head Start in Paterson, N.J., developed Project Unconditional, a project designed to integrate family and community strengthening components into Head Start to reduce risks for substance abuse.
Cherokee Nation Project Promotes Fitness to Fight Substance Abuse
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Cherokee Nation tribal health department established a project designed to enhance the protective factors that would help keep young people away from substance abuse.
Creating Safe Spaces for Children in Schools in Compton, Calif.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Head Start program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science planned and implemented a substance abuse prevention project that worked to change community norms and behaviors that put children at risk of substance abuse.
Tradition and Technology: Project Nurtures Both Among Native Americans in Seattle
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Seattle Indian Health Board developed a series of opportunities for Alaska-Native and American-Indian youth and recovering alcoholics to gain exposure to jobs and education.
Neighborhood Family Councils Give Children - and Their Parents - a Head Start in Colorado Springs
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Community Partnership for Child Development planned and implemented a Free to Grow project under the RWJF national program, Free to Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities.
Panel Recommends Solutions to a Demographic Riddle: Who Will Care for Graying Population
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The University of Illinois at Chicago Nursing Institute convened a blue-ribbon panel for a series of meetings, held between September 2000 and February 2001 in Chicago, on the Future of the Health Care Labor Force in a Graying Society.