RAND Research Topic: Health Care Program Evaluation2024-03-23T01:11:51ZCopyright (c) 2024, The RAND CorporationRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/topics/health-care-program-evaluation.htmlIndependent Evaluation of the New York State 1115 Waiver Amendment: The Children's DesignHarry H. Liu; Joshua Breslau; Stephanie Rennane; Lisa Wagner; Annie Chen; Gabriela Alvarado; Ingrid Estrada-Darley; Andrew W. Dickhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA782-1.html2021-08-06T09:45:00Z2021-08-06T09:45:00Z<p>The authors evaluate efforts to streamline health care for children and youth in the New York State Medicaid program who have needs for home- and community-based services through the recently implemented Children's Design.</p>Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help OthersRAND Corporationhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2023/mental-health-first-aid-training-people.html2023-05-03T12:30:00Z2023-05-03T12:30:00ZAn innovative program trains and empowers people to not look away from those experiencing mental illness, but to listen to them, reassure them, and encourage them to get help. Most trainees of the program in New York City were still using what they had learned five years later.