Culturally responsive evaluation requires flexibility, time, and responsiveness but leads to much richer and more rigorous results, and more accurately captures the knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of communities. We joined Laura Blasi, evaluation program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to talk about culturally responsive and participatory evaluation and best practices […]
Field contacts are a core practice within probation and parole. While criminological theory suggests field contacts may reduce recidivism, there is very little empirical evidence of this impact, and the costs of field contacts to officers and agencies are high. To date, only two studies have investigated the relationship between field contacts and recidivism, and […]
Background Gender inequality is high in Latin America (LA). Empowering girls and young women and reducing gender gaps has been proposed as a pathway to reduce adolescent pregnancy. We investigated the associations of urban measures of women’s empowerment and gender inequality with adolescent birth rates (ABR) in 366 Latin American cities in nine countries. Methods […]
Background: The Metropolitan-Boston Complex Trauma Treatment Initiative (MB-CTTI) offers adjunctive clinical services to highly traumatized youth with established care. MB-CTTI engaged the Institute for Community Health (ICH) to evaluate this program. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our research focused on understanding the impact of telehealth services. One technique that has become increasingly central […]
Study Purpose: Throughout the United States, there is a large uptick among municipalities in metropolitan areas implementing urban forestry management plans. Specifically, within the forest management plans, there is a drive to increase the area of urban tree canopy (UTC) with the hope to address issues surrounding climate change such as neighborhood property prices, mean […]