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The Texas Profile: Merging Best Practices From Two Sides, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Stephanie Herbers, Lana Wald, Max Bryant

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Texas case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

How Well Are We Protected? Shs Exposure And Smokefree Policies In Missouri, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Amy Sorg, Sarah Shelton, Danielle Pauley

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report highlighted Missouri’s demographic and geographic variation in secondhand smoke exposure, personal smoking policies in the home and car, and support for comprehensive smokefree workplace policies. Findings from this report provide a clear picture of secondhand smoke exposure and smokefree policies in Missouri, and identified populations and geographic areas that would benefit most from future intervention efforts.

The Indiana Profile: Prioritizing Change, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Lana Wald, Laura Bach, Jennifer Cameron

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Indiana case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

Icts Research Collaboration Survey Results, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Douglas Luke

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report provides the results from the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) Research Collaboration Survey. The ICTS Research Collaboration Survey was developed to better understand the collaborative research partnerships of ICTS members. The survey included demographic, collaboration network, and general attitude and satisfaction questions.

The Arkansas Profile: Aligning With Best Practices, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jennifer Cameron, Laura Bach, Lana Wald

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Arkansas case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

The Wyoming Profile: Focusing On Local Efforts, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Bach, Lana Wald, Jennifer Cameron

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Wyoming case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

Sustainability Assessment Report: Year 3, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Nikole Lobb Dougherty

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report brief provides a summary of findings based on Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) grantees’ responses to a sustainability assessment tool. This report was prepared for Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) staff and Board of Directors to assess accomplishments and challenges in funding, training, and capacity-building activities for H&AC grantees. Results from this report can help to inform the design of funding opportunities and capacity-building activities in the future.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Dan Page

Social Impact Publication

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Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Keith Negley, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Toky Branding + Design, Jessica Martin

Social Impact Publication

From the Dean: It's a "Go-Go" Place;

Perspectives: Michael Sherraden: Policy Innovator: The Key to Our Children's Future;

Interview: Q&A with Robert Joiner;

Bookshelf: Latina Suicide;

Bookshelf: A Mini MPH;

The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur: A new social work specialization arms socially minded entrepreneurs and creates an evidence base for an exploding field.;

Scaling Up Abroad: As demand for international service opportunities grows, academic and policy leaders determine how to expand availability and measure impact.;

Tip of the Iceberg: The Affordable Care Act's sweeping changes are already reshaping America's health care, and there is so much more to go …

The Washington D.C. Profile: Focusing On Sustainability, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Lana Wald, Jennifer Cameron, Laura Bach

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Washington, D.C. case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

The Colorado Profile: Prioritizing Funding And Integration, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jennifer Cameron, Lana Wald, Laura Bach

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Colorado case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

Ties User Manual, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Kari Lindberg, Julianne Cyr

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This manual facilitates grantees through the process of submitting data using the Tobacco Evaluation System (TIES). The manual provides detailed information about: submitting data, features of the system, registering a user account and managing user profiles, entering monthly and quarterly data, and producing data report summaries.

Higher Education: Baseline Policy Assessment, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Bobbi Carothers, Doneisha Snider

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report from the CPPW project presents the findings from a baseline assessment of tobacco policies in a sample of institutions of higher education in St. Louis County and City. A comprehensive evaluation plan has been developed to examine both process and outcome measures for the Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant, including changes in college/university tobacco policies.

Who Wants To Quit? Tobacco Cessation In Missouri, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jill Kuhlberg, Amy Sorg, Sarah Shelton

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report provides information on tobacco use cessation in Missouri. This report highlights both groups that are in need of cessation assistance and opportunities for more effective interventions in the health care services sector. Report findings and their associated recommendations may be used by the tobacco control community to inform their planning and programmatic efforts.

The Florida Profile: Mandating The Best Practices, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Bach, Lana Wald, Jennifer Cameron

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This Florida case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

On The Road To Samaria: Urban Religious Congregations As Resource Brokers, Kirk Foster

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Concentrated poverty is an increasing problem in urban U.S. neighborhoods leading to social isolation and marginalization from mainstream institutions. Conventional thought has argued that the urban poor lack resources necessary for social and economic mobility due to constrained social networks endemic in homogeneously poor communities. However, neighborhood based organizations may be one place where the urban poor can engage heterogeneous resource networks to advance socially and economically. Religious congregations are enduring neighborhood organizations that present the opportunity for social interaction and resource access. Thus, this study examines the role of religious congregations in providing access to resources embedded in congregational …

Family Policy, Family Resources, And Children's Educational Achievement: A Comparative Study Of 18 Rich Countries, Yung Soo Lee

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Educational achievement among children is one of the most important concerns for most contemporary societies. While numerous studies have explored factors associated with children's educational achievement, little research fully incorporated multi-level, multi-faceted contexts of child education. More specifically, less attention has been paid to the role of macro-level, policy contexts and their interactions with various aspects of family-level resources. To help fill the gap in the literature, this study investigates: 1) the role of various aspects of family-level resources, that is family financial, human, and social capital, in children's educational achievement,: 2) mediating pathways among those family-level resources, and: 3) …

The Earned Income Tax Credit And Financial Capability Among Native Households, Kristen Wagner

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

EITC refunds are often substantial sums of money entering households of working families each year. Many households use the EITC to meet their basic needs such as rent, utilities, food, groceries, clothing, and other household expenses. Other EITC recipients view the tax system as a savings mechanism. This is the first study of how the EITC is being used among Native populations. Study data includes 9,482 household surveys collected in over 80 urban, rural, and reservation communities across the U.S. Surveys were completed by EITC eligible households, both Native and non-Native in tax years 2005 - 2008. Results from this …

Strategic Management In Nonprofit Mental Health Service Organizations: Understanding Processes And Impact On Performance, Jennifer Schurer Coldiron

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Managing the performance of social service-providing nonprofit organizations: NPOs) has become more and more complex in the past few decades as executives have had to cope with increasing competition, demands from a diversified set of stakeholders, rapidly changing technologies, and mounting scrutiny from funders and consumers. To help reduce the complexity of strategic management, organizations have been encouraged to adopt formal strategy formation processes, such as highly-structured strategic planning models. However, there are no demonstrated "best practices" or conclusive evidence of the utility of formal strategy formation within the nonprofit sector. The stakes of mismanagement are high for the organizations …

Dynamic Measurement Of Soluble Human Aβ In A Combined Microdialysis-Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Mouse Model, Katherine Schwetye

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

The amyloid-β peptide: Aβ) plays a central pathophysiological role in Alzheimer's disease, but little is known about its dynamics in the brain's extracellular space. A recent microdialysis-based study in human patients with severe brain injuries found that extracellular Aβ dynamics correlate with changes in neurological status. Because neurological status is generally diminished following injury, this correlation suggests that extracellular Aβ is reduced relative to baseline. However, human studies cannot assess pre-injury Aβ levels, very early post-injury Aβ levels, nor the relationship between extracellular Aβ and total tissue levels. Therefore, we developed a mouse model that combines experimental TBI with microdialysis …

Asset Effects For Children With Disabilities: Analysis Of Educational And Health Outcomes, Jin Huang

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

In the last two decades, asset-based social policies, which encourage families, especially low-income families, to accumulate assets by providing appropriate institutional settings, have received increasing attention from policymakers and researchers. Various programs and strategies have been outlined to improve saving and asset ownership opportunities in disadvantaged populations. Although there are multiple proposals of asset-based programs for children with disabilities, few of them have been implemented. To better inform asset-based policy practices for children with disabilities, this study examines asset effects for this population using the secondary survey data. Asset effects refer to the hypothesized positive influences of household assets on …

Personality Differences In Never-Married Versus Divorced Individuals In Later Life Using The Neo Pi-R, Krystle Disney

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Previous research has shown that personality disorder symptoms are significantly higher in divorced and never-married individuals compared to married individuals. Although personality pathology is elevated in these two groups, specific trait differences between the two are still unclear. In a large representative community sample: N = 1473) of older adults between the ages of 55-64, a multivariate analysis of variance was conducted on the 30 facets of the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised using data from divorced, never-married, and married participants. Significant differences between marital groups were found in 15 facets: four Neuroticism, five Extraversion, two Openness, two Agreeableness, and two Conscientiousness). …

Savings Outcomes Of An Ida Program For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Cynthia Sanders

Center for Social Development Research

Savings Outcomes of an IDA Program for Survivors of Domestic Violence

The Seed For Oklahoma Kids Experiment: Initial Account Opening And Savings, Robert Zager, Youngmi Kim, Yunju Nam, Margaret M. Clancy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

The SEED for Oklahoma Kids Experiment: Initial Account Opening and Savings

The Seed For Oklahoma Kids Experiment: Initial Account Opening And Savings, Robert Zager, Youngmi Kim, Yunju Nam, Margaret Clancy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

The SEED for Oklahoma Kids Experiment: Initial Account Opening and Savings

From Helena To Harlem: Experiences Of Lower-Income Rural And Urban Parents In Childrens Savings Account Programs, Edward Scalon, Leann Wittman

Center for Social Development Research

This report focuses on a qualitative study of parents and other parents who were involved in the SEED program at the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City and the Southern Good Faith Fund in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. In-depth interviews with the caregivers of child participants were designed to help provide a richer understanding of perceived facilitators and obstacles to saving, perceived effects of saving, and participants’ experiences of various program features. This report focus on three of our primary research concerns: perceived saving facilitators, perceived saving barriers, and perceived impacts of SEED participation.

Do Parental Assets Matter For Children's Educational Attainment?: Evidence From Mediation Tests, Youngmi Kim, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

This study investigates (1) the effects of parental assets on children’s educational attainment from high school completion to college degree attainment, and (2) mediating roles played by parental involvement, child’s educational expectations, and child’s self-esteem. The study sample (N=632) is drawn from the Child and Young Adult data supplement to the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979. Results indicate that parental assets are associated with children’s later educational attainment. Financial assets and home-ownership are significantly associated with high school completion and college attendance. In addition, family income becomes non-significant when specific measures of assets and liabilities are taken into account. …

Emerging Perspectives On International Volunteerism In Asia, Caroline Brassard, Margaret S. Sherraden, Benjamin J. Lough

Center for Social Development Research

Created for the International Forum on Development Service’s FORUM Research series, this paper presents an assessment of knowledge on international volunteerism in Asia. Data for the assessment come from an online survey of 80 organizations that send volunteers to Asian countries, face-to-face interviews conducted with staff in 47 organizations, and focus group discussions with 32 volunteers after their return from international service. The findings have implications for volunteers, their managers, hosting organizations, researchers, and policymakers. The paper served as the foundation for the Forum Research 2010 address before the annual conference of International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations. Slides as video from …

Lessons From Seed: A National Demonstration Of Child Development Accounts, Michael Sherraden, Julia Stevens, Deborah Adams, Ray Boshara, Margaret Clancy, Reid Cramer, Bob Friedman, Rochelle Howard, Karol Krotki, Ellen Marks, Lisa Mensah, Bryan Rhodes, Carl Rist, Edward Scanlon, Trina Williams Shanks, Michael Sherraden, Julia Stevens, Leigh Tivol, Robert Zager

Center for Social Development Research

Lessons From SEED: A National Demonstration of Child Development Accounts

Saving For College: A Policy Primer, Margaret M. Clancy, Terry Lassar, Krista Taake

Center for Social Development Research

To help address the rapidly rising cost of higher education—an obstacle to college access and completion for many low- and moderate-income families—it is increasingly important to save for college. This report highlights key policy considerations and challenges, along with specific strategies, to make 529 college savings plans more accessible to families of all incomes.