Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

Adult Education & Literacy Children's Mental Health District Consulting Education Evidence & Indicators Early Childhood Education Finance Education Technology Higher Education School Reform Special Education

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Communications & Social Marketing Research & Policy Analysis Conference Services, Technical Writing & Clearinghouse/Call Center Management Technical Assistance & Training Informatics, Web Site Development & Information Management

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

State Student Testing Computer Statistical Services

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Equity Analysis Organizational Performance Skills Assessment Team Performance Usability Engineering

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

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Technical Assistance & Training

Assessment and Planning Consulting (APC) Team for the “Building Effective Substance Abuse Treatment” (BEST) Initiative

• The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation’s Substance Abuse Program established a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative entitled “Building Effective Substance Abuse Treatment” (BEST) in 2002. The initiative’s goal is to develop more effective substance abuse treatment providers by investing in infrastructure, organizational practice, and systems-level change. The AIR Assessment and Planning Consulting team’s goal is to conduct with each participating provider an organizational assessment that (1) identifies organizational strengths, challenges or problems, and areas for improvement, (2) determines organizational priorities, and (3) articulates a long-term system improvement project that can be undertaken with funds provided by the Schwab Foundation.

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Partners for Substance Abuse Prevention

• This project supports collaboration, networking, and information exchange among a wide range of private and public organizations nationwide that implement or foster substance abuse prevention services, programs, and education campaigns. AIR Web engineers and Webmasters work with communications staff to: (1) develop a directory of partner organizations, (2) facilitate networking and idea exchange between partner organizations; (3) develop publications and research reviews, news items, program profiles; identify best practices, interview local leaders, and host interactive discussions; and (4) maintain, improve, and expand services and site usability.

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Performance Partnership Grant Technical Assistance Center

• The Children’s Health Act of 2000 requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a plan for implementing the new outcome reporting requirements of the $1.7 billion Federal Performance Partnership Grant (PPG) program that funds substance abuse treatment and prevention conducted by the States. This contract builds upon earlier SAMHSA and State efforts to develop and validate outcome measures. AIR will design and staff a comprehensive Technical Assistance Coordination Center (TACC) effort to support development of state capacity to accomplish the outcome reporting capacity and data reports.

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Service Accountability Improvement System ( SAIS)

• The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is responsible for administering over 1000 grants and contracts designed to increase capacity, access, effectiveness, and efficiency of substance abuse treatment. CSAT is additionally responsible for the ongoing performance measurement and management of this portfolio through the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). To assist the agency, AIR has subcontracted with WESTAT to provide training and technical assistance on GPRA data collection, follow up strategies necessary for post-admission data collection, recruitment and retention strategies, and other matters related to the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and use of admission and post-admission data from 80% of persons receiving services under these grants and contracts.

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Technical Support for Implementation of a New Drug to Treat Heroin Addiction

• This project supports the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) in implementing buprenorphine, a drug that can be prescribed in the primary care setting for the treatment of opioid (heroin) addiction. The overall purpose of this project is to maximize the effectiveness of the introduction of buprenorphine treatment by educating the medical community, the drug abuse treatment community, and the general public about the availability and correct use of the medication.

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Cultural Competency Curriculum Modules for Family Physicians

• AIR developed and tested curriculum modules that effectively equip family practitioners with cultural and linguistic competencies. A fully accredited Continuing Medical Education Web site and DVD was launched in 2004. These Cultural Competency Curriculum Modules are a foundation for providing training in cultural competence to health care providers, and are expected to improve the processes and quality of care for minority populations.

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Culturally Competent Curriculum Modules for Nurses

• To help achieve its mission of "improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health," the Office of Minority Health (OMH) has contracted with AIR to develop and test curriculum modules that effectively equip nurses with cultural and linguistic competencies. These modules will be grounded on the principles outlined in the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care issued in December 2000 and will build on the current work of the Cultural Competency Curriculum Modules (CCCM) for Family Physicians.

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Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide (HCLSIG)

• AIR is developing an implementation guide that provides practical, ground-level suggestions for how health care organizations and providers can implement language access services. The guide will serve as a companion piece to the Office of Civil Right's Limited English Proficient (LEP) Guidance and OMH's National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.

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