2012-05-24T14:57:27Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/pacific-states.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT375.html May 9, 2012 May 9, 2012

Testimony presented before the California State Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on May 9, 2012.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB647.html May 1, 2012 May 1, 2012

This briefing uses existing statewide and county data to provide California early care and education quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) planners and other stakeholders with important information about some fundamentals of the proposed QRIS rating scheme that could inform California's QRIS design in advance of field-based pilot efforts.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1188.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

California has taken steps to implement components of a comprehensive professional development system for its early child education workforce. However, further advances are needed and more information is required to identify possible inefficiencies in the current system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP356.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Uses two sources of representative data, the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, to describe child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9638.html Feb 28, 2012 Feb 28, 2012

Offers recommendations for improving the education and training of California's early childhood workforce.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB639.html Feb 23, 2012 Feb 23, 2012

This briefing offers a menu of potential future activities for the nonaviation lands at Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) to enhance the quality of life in Santa Monica through community-linked programs.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/01/26.html Jan 26, 2012 Jan 26, 2012

The first evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program found evidence that it reduces workplace injuries, but only at businesses that had been cited for not addressing the regulation's more-specific safety mandates. Higher penalties could enhance compliance but having inspectors conduct more in-depth assessments and linking the violations and injuries to the program would have more impact.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1190.html Jan 26, 2012 Jan 26, 2012

The first evaluation of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program found that it reduces workplace injuries, but only at businesses that had been cited for not addressing the regulation's more-specific safety mandates. Having inspectors conduct more in-depth assessments and linking the violations and injuries to the program would have more impact.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR988.html Jan 24, 2012 Jan 24, 2012

The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009–2010, Corrections Standards Authority–mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2012/01/24/californias-prisoners-dilemma.html Jan 24, 2012 Jan 24, 2012

At this January 2012 Policy Forum, experts discuss the public health implications of a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the prison population by more than 30,000.

http://www.rand.orghttp://lasurvey.rand.org.html Jan 23, 2012 Jan 23, 2012

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) studies adults, teens, children, and neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Survey data were collected in 2000-2001 and 2006-2008 and are available to researchers for public use.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD292.html Jan 20, 2012 Jan 20, 2012

Applies robust decision methods to evaluate California's transportation policies that considers multiple views of the future, and identifies strategies that consistently reduce emissions at acceptable costs regardless of future conditions.

http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2011/winter/prisoner.html Jan 13, 2012 Jan 13, 2012

The confluence of three events has broadened the public health implications of prisoner reentry into California communities: the recession, state realignment, and federal health care reform.

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/EP201200115.html Jan 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012

HIV continues to be a serious public health problem for men who have sex with women (MSW), especially homeless MSW.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9634.html Dec 7, 2011 Dec 7, 2011

Examines the health care needs of released California prisoners, communities most affected by reentry, safety net capacity, and provider experiences with ex-prisoners, given California's Public Safety Realignment Plan and federal health care reform.

http://www.rand.orghttp://ca.rand.org/.html Nov 17, 2011 Nov 17, 2011

RAND California contains statistics on unemployment, crime rates, school district expenditures, dropout and completion rates, energy consumption, air quality, and more. Much of the data is available at the national, state, county, and city levels.

http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/11/16.html Nov 16, 2011 Nov 16, 2011

With the health care safety net in California under stress from the state's continuing financial crisis, jurisdictions across the state face unprecedented challenges caring for the health and social service needs of people released from state prisons.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1165.html Nov 16, 2011 Nov 16, 2011

With the health care safety net in California under stress from the state's continuing financial crisis, jurisdictions across the state face unprecedented challenges caring for the health and social service needs of people released from state prisons.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1146.html Oct 19, 2011 Oct 19, 2011

Geographic information system (GIS) mapping software is a promising tool for enhancing priority-setting and resource allocation in local health departments (LHDs) by displaying complex geospatial information in an integrated, visual way, enabling comparison of where health services are needed with where they are provided. The study describes options for accessing GIS data and suggests ways for LHDs to integrate GIS into their planning activities.