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.
The Appalachian Regional Commission's mission is to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia. The ARC engaged AIR in 2019 to assist the agency with developing its 2022-2026 strategic plan.
Ellie Klein is a program director with the AIR Opportunity Fund, where she leads the Fund’s place-based investment strategy, working with communities across the country to better understand local needs and develop research-driven solutions.
AIR’s Center for Applied Research in Postsecondary Education (CARPE) tackles postsecondary education’s most pressing challenges by generating actionable insights and helping the field implement effective solutions.
AIR has won two Anthem Awards for its work operating the Model System Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), which translates health information into easy-to-understand language and formats for people living with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury and their families and caregivers. ...
AIR partnered with the World Bank to synthesize evidence on the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions on nutrition outcomes such as stunting and wasting, as well as dietary diversity, and the cost-effectiveness of nutrition-sensitive interventions.
The use of transformative social emotional learning (T-SEL) programming is important and promising for teachers as students continue to face challenges related to COVID-19, institutional racism, school safety as well as other issues including housing and food insecurity. By training teachers to employ culturally relevant social-emotional practices, they ensure that ...
What we know about how people make decisions can be a powerful tool for rethinking how public programs should work. AIR, as a sub to Mathematica, supported the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) work to explore how insights from behavioral science can be used to improve the ...
The Youth Reentry Training and Technical Assistance Center (YRTTAC), administered by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, supports capacity building efforts among 50+ Second Chance Act Reentry grantees. The grantees are from over 30 states and are in various stages of their grant cycle. ...
We are passionate about emergent innovations that hold promise to transform workforce systems. See how we are convening workforce partners to leverage new technologies and forge integrated service strategies that make workforce programs nimbler and more efficient.
