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Fugitive Chemicals and Environmental Justice: A Model for Environmental Monitoring Following Climate-Related Disasters

Waterfront communities can use this six-step framework to proactively develop an environmental monitoring program to prepare for, recover from, and respond to chemical leaks after weather disasters.

Jul 3, 2018
Research Brief

Boosting Disaster Resilience Among Older Adults

Older adults are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. Collaborations between public health departments and organizations that promote aging in place could improve disaster resilience among older populations.

Jan 26, 2018
Tool

Building Older Adults' Resilience by Bridging Public Health and Aging-in-Place Efforts: Toolkit

This toolkit contains information and activities that can bring together those involved in aging-in-place support and those involved in disaster resilience efforts to improve the resilience of older adults to natural and human-caused disasters.

Jan 23, 2018
Report

Improving Older Adults' Disaster Resilience

Most organizations that promote aging in place do not place a high priority on promoting disaster preparedness. And the resilience activities of public health departments are not focused on older adults. Tailoring existing activities to the needs of older adults could improve their disaster preparedness and resilience.

Jan 23, 2018
Report

Connections to Care (C2C): The Perspectives of Leaders at Community-Based Organizations That Are Integrating Mental Health Supports

The RAND Corporation is evaluating the results of the Connections to Care mental health program in New York City; this brief research report presents preliminary findings from interviews with leadership at participating community-based organizations.

Dec 15, 2017
Tool

Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of community emergency preparedness programs. It includes instructions, completed examples, and blank tools.

Aug 21, 2017
Report

Report

Evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme

This report presents findings from an evaluation of The Atlantic Philanthropies Migration Programme, which provided grants to organisations supporting migrants. It looks at the impacts achieved in law, policy and practice in Ireland.

May 31, 2017
Tool

Tool

Five Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of Children and Families in Human Service Programs

This toolkit offers five strategies to increase client recruitment and retention for human services programs.

Apr 21, 2017
Brochure

Brochure

Connections to Care (C2C): Evaluating an Initiative Integrating Mental Health Supports into Social Service Settings

This brief highlights how the Connections to Care (C2C) program works, the evaluation RAND will undertake, and some thoughts from participating organizations at the outset of the program.

Jan 19, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in the Depression Care of African Americans and Hispanics in Los Angeles

Compared with non-Hispanic whites and US-born Hispanics, a larger proportion of African Americans and Hispanics used depression care provided by community faith-based organizations.

Nov 29, 2016
Journal Article

Journal Article

Community Engagement Compared with Technical Assistance to Disseminate Depression Care Among Low-Income, Minority Women: A Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Study

Community engagement approaches to health and social programs may offer modest improvements on depression outcomes among low-income minority women.

Sep 13, 2016
Tool

Improving the Role of NGOs in Disaster Response and Recovery

The ENGAGED toolkit assists public health and emergency planners and NGO stakeholders, including voluntary associations, philanthropic organizations, advocacy groups, community groups, and businesses, in determining capacity and capability for disaster response and recovery.

Apr 18, 2016
Report

Stakeholder Perspectives on a Culture of Health: Key Findings

RAND engaged stakeholders to support development of an action framework and measurement strategy for Robert Wood Johnson's Culture of Health vision, in which "everyone in our diverse society leads healthier lives now and for generations to come."

Jan 14, 2016
Tool

Promoting Success: A Getting To Outcomes® Guide to Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement for Community Service Organizations

Describes practical steps for conducting continuous quality improvement in community service organizations.

Dec 17, 2015
Journal Article

Journal Article

Sampling and Recruiting Community-Based Programs Using Community-Partnered Participation Research

This research examines issues of statistical design in community-partnered, participatory research (CPPR).

Oct 20, 2015
Journal Article

Journal Article

Partnerships for Community Resilience: Perspectives from the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project

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Sep 25, 2015
Tool

Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) Toolkit

The Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) toolkit employs a survey, a quality improvement guide, and a recovery exercise to strengthen disaster recovery partnerships between local health departments and community-based organizations.

Sep 15, 2015
Commentary

Nonprofits and Bridging the Civil-Military Divide

Troops, veterans, and military families can go to the National Resource Directory to find help if they need it, and citizens can turn there to find organizations serving those communities where they can donate their time or money. Each of us can play a role in bridging the civil-military divide, but only if we take action.

Mar 31, 2014
Commentary

Tax the Nonprofits: A Modest Proposal

Charles Wolf asks: Can the NPO sector contribute to easing the U.S. fiscal imbalance, while helping rather than hindering the dynamic free enterprise system, and retaining societal benefits provided by nonprofits?

Mar 6, 2013
Journal Article

Journal Article

Facilitators and Barriers to HIV Activities in Religious Congregations: Perspectives of Clergy and Lay Leaders from a Diverse Urban Sample

This paper examines facilitators and barriers to HIV activities within religious congregations, the relative internal or external sources of these influences, and suggestive differences across congregational types.

Jan 1, 2013

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