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News Release

News Release

Smaller City Effort to Aid Chronically Homeless Has Success, Cuts Use of Municipal Services

Creating a municipally funded team to provide intensive services to chronically homeless people who use a large amount of public services can help the individuals get off the streets, while also reducing spending on services such as police services and emergency medical care.

Jun 5, 2019
Report

Local Effort Reduces Homelessness and Use of City Services

A program that provided chronically homeless individuals with housing, health care, and other support services helped them get off the streets and reduced spending on public services such as law enforcement and emergency medical care.

Jun 5, 2019
Dissertation

Dissertation

Treatment Not Custody: Process and Impact Evaluation of the Santa Monica Homeless Community Court

This dissertation is a process and impact evaluation of the Santa Monica Homeless Community Court.

Sep 18, 2018
Multimedia

Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project

RAND experts and Santa Monica city officials discuss the Wellbeing Project, which aimed to evaluate overall community wellbeing and incorporate these results into city planning and governance.

Sep 29, 2017
Solution

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

The city of Santa Monica wanted to incorporate wellbeing into city planning, policies, and programs. RAND researchers, as part of a team of experts, helped create a framework for measuring wellbeing and applying the findings to city planning.

Nov 22, 2016
Commentary

Expo Line Could Enhance Wellbeing in Santa Monica

On May 20, the long-awaited Metro Expo Line will begin service to Santa Monica. Viewing urban mobility as a key component of community wellbeing may be an instructive way to assess the impact of Expo and other infrastructure efforts.

May 6, 2016
Essay

Learning from One City's Effort to Transform Community

RAND researchers have partnered with the city of Santa Monica, California to redefine not just how cities measure success, but how they assess their very purpose for being. This “Wellbeing Index” posits that cities can improve not just the safety and comfort of their residents, but also their happiness.

Mar 8, 2016
Periodical

Periodical

RAND Review: March-April 2016

This issue highlights RAND research on new ways to measure wellbeing in cities; effects of cigarette advertising on teens; supermarkets in so-called "food deserts"; the decline of civics education in American schools; and more.

Feb 29, 2016
Commentary

Wellbeing Project to Weave Science Into Government Decisions

Wellbeing is about individuals having the skills and opportunity to live a meaningful life. There are countless things that cities do that either contribute or detract from that sense of meaning. Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project is working to fundamentally change how the government thinks about its citizens.

Apr 29, 2015
Report

Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary

In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica.

Apr 25, 2014
Report

Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica

Researchers examine how well Santa Monica's child care programs meet the needs of families, including child care and early education programs before kindergarten, as well as care for school-aged children, both during the school year and the summer.

Apr 25, 2014
Blog

RAND Is Helping Santa Monica Measure the City's Overall Well-Being

RAND is helping its hometown of Santa Monica, Calif., become the first city in America to use a measurement of overall wellbeing to drive public policy.

Mar 1, 2013
Report

Report

Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) Options for the Future

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.

Feb 23, 2012

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