The state of Michigan has 10 Great Start to Quality Resource Centers (RCs) across 11 regions. AIR designed and completed a cost study with the Michigan Department of Education to estimate the overall costs for each of its 10 RCs to perform the activities and goals outlined in each RC's ...
Assessing access to early care and education is a key first step in any policy improvement initiative. In part because of the diverse delivery system for early childhood programs in the U.S., there is no single source of data on the availability of programs much less on the enrollment in ...
Sesame Street in Communities is a program that combines training and resources to equip Communities In Schools (CIS) site coordinators working in schools and classrooms to develop children’s social and emotional skills and resilience. Sesame Workshop, CIS, and AIR have partnered on an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) early-phase project ...
AIR's Substance Abuse Youth topic page on Youth.gov provides information and resources for youth-serving agencies. The new topic provides information and resources focused on substance abuse prevalence, risk and protective factors, warning signs, screening assessments, and prevention and treatment.
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.
In this 18-month study funded by National Institute for Research, AIR researchers, in partnership with leading mentoring scholars, seek to better understand the change mechanisms in youth mentoring using a rich dataset of close to 2,000 mentor-mentee pairs that were part of a previous study AIR concluded in 2018. ...
Sesame Street’s Building a Connected Community is a new online professional learning course that helps preschool teachers build healthy relationships with children and families and support children’s social and emotional development. The Sesame Street resources will be set up for teachers of 4-year-olds to use for 10 weeks (about 20–30 minutes each week). ...
The 2014 Attorney General’s Advisory Committee report on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence proclaimed the need for a re-imagined and re-created tribal juvenile justice system focused on prevention, treatment, and healing. AIR and its partners seek to serve and support the vision of promoting the health and well-being ...
New research shows that rates of depression, suicide, and illegal drug use are many times higher among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth than among their peers. Seven AIR human and social development experts share their insights in a new book, Improving Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes for LGBT Youth: ...
CS for All Teachers is a virtual community of practice, welcoming all teachers from PreK through high school who are interested in teaching computer science. It provides an online home for teachers to connect with one another and with the resources and expertise they need to successfully teach computer science ...