2012-05-24T14:57:15Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/ohio.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR991-1.html Jan 4, 2012 Jan 4, 2012

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100230.html Sep 30, 2011 Sep 30, 2011

The study relies on a survey of Ohio schools to ascertain information on vacancies for 2004-2005. The survey also collected information on principal perceptions of the impact of various school conditions and difficulty in hiring.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG914.html Oct 11, 2009 Oct 11, 2009

<p>RAND has developed a fair, yet rigorous approach to analyzing traffic stop data for racial bias. Based on five years of data from the Cincinnati Police Department, the approach addresses bias in the decision to stop, flags officers with disparate stop patterns, and assesses bias in search and citation rates.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR725.html Aug 24, 2009 Aug 24, 2009

<p>Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG869.html Mar 17, 2009 Mar 17, 2009

<p>Along with the growth of the charter school movement has come contentious debate about its effects on both charter students and those in nearby traditional public schools. This study helps determine why previous research has drawn differing conclusions through its examination of charter schools' effect on overall educational attainment.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG853.html Jan 22, 2009 Jan 22, 2009

<p>In 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department and the ACLU joined together to review police-community relations. This report finds that CPD is not the same as the department that policed Cincinnati in 2001. With crime reduced and no evidence of racial bias at traffic stops, there is still room for improvement with community relations. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080928.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>313 randomly sampled video recordings from police cars on traffic stops in Cincinnati, Ohio were content analyzed to help facilitate understanding of police-civilian relations</p>

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2007/10/29.html Oct 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007

>An examination of the types of human trafficking occurring in two of Ohio's largest cities found that child prostitution is more common in Toledo while forced labor is more likely to be identified in Columbus.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG689.html Oct 19, 2007 Oct 19, 2007

<p>While many of us think of human trafficking&mdash;both sex and labor trafficking&mdash;as occurring mostly in foreign countries, it is a growing national concern, and one that often hits home in local communities.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP754.html Dec 31, 1998 Dec 31, 1998

Mental health and substance abuse parity : a case study of Ohio's state employee program