Jobs to Careers: Preliminary Results for Educational Institutions

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief/Evaluation

Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care is an initiative that seeks to advance and reward the skill and career development of low-wage incumbent workers providing care and services on the front lines of our health and health care systems. The project is a $15.8-million national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with The Hitachi Foundation and the Department of Labor.

Playworks: Supporting Play and Physical Activity in Low-Income Elementary Schools

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

The study, led by Milbrey McLaughlin, Founding Director and Rebecca London, Senior Researcher, at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, examines the implementation of Playworks programs in eight Silicon Valley schools.

Playworks: Promoting Positive Youth Development in Low-Income Elementary Schools

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief

This brief is one in a series of final reports from the Study of Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Schools. It examines the ways that Playworks promotes positive youth development and reports students’, teachers’, and principals’ views of t ...

Results from the Jobs to Careers Frontline Worker Survey

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief/Evaluation

The brief summarizes FLWs perceptions of the impact that the Jobs to Careers programs had on their work lives, education, career advancement potential.

Jobs to Careers: Preliminary Results for Healthcare Employers

January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief/Evaluation

The brief describes the Jobs to Careers work-based learning model of education and career advancement, identifies the key issues for employers, and illustrates the business case for this type of employer investment.

Implications and Options for State-Funded and Medicaid Expansion Coverage Programs Under Health Reform

August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief

A look at 11 existing health coverage programs in six states that documents the legal, technical and policy issues the states are already addressing, or need to address, as they review options for transitioning program enrollees to new coverage options.

Making Health Care a Reality for Low-Income Children and Families

February 1, 2007 | Issue Brief/Evaluation

This brief reviews evaluation findings about best practices in this area. For policy-makers considering SCHIP reauthorization, this brief provides information about the potential value of outreach and other types of program support.

CKF Coalitions Propel Policy and Procedural Changes

November 1, 2007 | Issue Brief

This brief examines the impact of Covering Kids & Families (CKF). The authors summarize the ways that CKF coalitions were built, the changes they supported, and the sustainability of those changes after the grant period.