One person's injury or illness can affect a community at all levels. The Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury or Illness Network (RETAIN) project aims to increase employment retention and labor force participation of individuals who acquire, and/or are at risk of developing, disabilities that inhibit their ability to work. ...
The CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services Survey (HCBS CAHPS) elicits feedback from Medicaid enrollees about the quality of the long-term services and supports they receive in the community. As a subcontractor on this Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services project, AIR led qualitative research to develop survey items in the ...
How can afterschool and expanded learning practitioners measure young people’s personal and social skills? How can they use that data to improve their programs and systems? To answer these questions, AIR worked with Every Hour Counts, a coalition of citywide organizations that increase access to quality learning opportunities by providing ...
More than 12 million people are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Because they tend to have greater health needs and lower incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries, dually eligible people often experience challenges with care delivery and integration between Medicare and Medicaid. With support from Arnold Ventures, AIR aimed to ...
Between 2018 and 2020—before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic—Burkina Faso experienced multiple shocks, leading to prolonged school absences even after the pandemic ebbed, increasing the risk that youth not attending school could be recruited into violent extremist organizations. AIR is assisting Save the Children in focusing on support for ...
The science of learning and development is an emerging, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge that tells us how young people learn and develop. We partnered with seven national youth-serving organizations to learn about how they are aligning the guiding principles from the science of learning and development to their organizational and ...
This online training curriculum series is designed to guide school systems and community partnerships in establishing a strategic financing process to secure resources necessary to sustain comprehensive school mental health programs.
AIR operates a national survey system to assess consumers’ experiences with the qualified health plans (QHPs) that are sold on the Health Insurance Exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Our researchers use the data to populate quality-improvement reports sent to QHP ...
To improve services to students and families, we need information on what districts and charter management organizations are doing and plan to do to address COVID-19. From mid-May through July 2020, we are asking school district and charter management organization leaders to respond to a nationally representative survey of school ...
In 2020, AIR was contracted to conduct a descriptive study of SeriousFun camps, which aim to help children who are living with serious illnesses develop confidence, resilience, and social skills and try new things.