Research shows that coaches have the ability to affect youths' decision-making. AIR researchers evaluated the impact of Coach Across America, a sports-based youth development program, on underserved youth nationwide over the course of the 2013-2014 program year.
Tamika Cowans is a senior researcher at AIR. She has over seven years of experience providing research, project management, and administrative support for projects pertaining to survey development, patient experiences of care, and chronic diseases. She has experience in qualitative data collection and analysis including conducting focus groups, environmental scans, ...
Neil Naftzger is a managing director working on community school, afterschool, and youth development initiatives at AIR. An experienced evaluator and researcher, Dr. Naftzger has spent two decades designing and conducting evaluations and research studies in the community school, afterschool, and youth development arenas that involve the collection and analysis ...