Approximately 135,000 children between three and five years of age live in the departments of Ayacucho, Huancavelica, and Huánuco in Peru, where total poverty and extreme poverty rates far exceed the national averages. AIR is evaluating the impact of a preschool program which aims to improve the quality of early ...
The National Center for Healthy Safe Children offers resources, training, and technical assistance to support states, tribes, territories, and local communities as they promote overall wellbeing for students and their families. Meet our leaders and researchers.
Decades of research show that whole child approaches to learning, which emphasize a positive school climate; an integrated approach to social, emotional, and academic learning; and wraparound services are essential to students' academic and life success and can reduce the negative effects of poverty on achievement. Speakers at this briefing ...
The scale-up of HIV care and treatment services in Zambia over the last 10 years has resulted in vastly increased access to HIV care and treatment services for adults and children, but individual patients regularly travel long distances to fixed clinics and endure long wait times with minimal community support. ...
This spotlight takes a look at the history of Title I, how the program has changed over time, and how it affects children, schools, families and education policy. Experts weigh in on the program's past and future in interviews, briefs, and blogs.
Peter Rehder is a researcher at AIR. His work is focused on helping communities, practitioners, and policymakers build systems and programs that support healthy development and well-being for children and families, especially those who have traditionally been underserved or marginalized. He has extensive expertise in social and emotional development, developmental ...
USAID awarded ENTRENA S.R.L. the Youth Led Activity (YLA), aimed at reducing youth crime and violence in the Dominica Republic by engaging with youth-led and youth-serving organizations to generate cross-sectoral, positive youth development outcomes. As a sub to ENTRENA, AIR will be YLA’s thought and resource partner, providing technical assistance ...
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.
The purpose of this project is to plan, research, design, and execute the annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a flagship report co-sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.