Despite efforts by the Mozambican government to improve access to pre-primary education, many challenges remain in the education system overall and in pre-primary education. AIR conducted a mixed-methods experimental evaluation of a pilot program being implemented to improve children’s educational outcomes through a pre-primary intervention in target districts and communities ...
The Colombia Youth Resilience Activity (YRA) aims to address these challenges in high-risk communities across the country by designing a holistic solution that fosters youth assets and agency, while also strengthening protective environments, healthy relationships, and economic opportunities.
A comprehensive approach to school safety requires a focus on the root causes within the school and larger community setting. In support of the National Institute of Justice's Comprehensive School Safety Initiative, AIR—in partnership with Virginia Tech, The Wandersman Center, and a group of nationally recognized school safety experts—is conducting ...
AIR conducted a literature review and environmental scan of the AHRQ Quality Indicators to help inform decisions about the future of the program, including which indicators to prioritize, retain, and refine for use in quality improvement initiatives.
AIR conducted a literature review and focus groups to identify a reliable and valid Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to document health outcomes for patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD).
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
AIR is supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in developing online tools for Medicare beneficiaries to use when selecting Medicare health and prescription drug plans. The project centers on replacing the existing Medicare Plan Finder system that enables beneficiaries to find, compare, and ultimately enroll in coverage. ...
Individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) are more likely than the general population to develop chronic health conditions at younger ages and/or experience co-occurring (i.e., accompanying) mental illness. Since 2018, the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) ...
In the March 2021 report to the Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continue to cover telehealth services after the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). This would allow for a study focused on the effects of telehealth ...
The D.C. Department of Health Care Finance Medicaid Behavioral Health Transformation Demonstration aims to strengthen the continuum of care and move Medicaid toward a more integrated model of behavioral health care delivery by expanding treatment options for substance use disorder, serious mental illness in adults, and serious emotional disturbance in ...