Describes the health status of the more than 100,000 children residing in Washington, D.C., and their use of health services. The authors examine differences in health status and health care use within the city, environmental characteristics affecting health, and community resident and provider perspectives. The goal of the study is to lay a factual foundation for advocacy and policy decisions related to children1s health in the District.

Health and Health Care Among District of Columbia Youth (Technical Report (RAND))

Gresenz, Carole Roan

Ruder, Teague

Chandra, Anita

Blanchard, Janice C.

Cuellar, Alison Evans

Teen & Young Adult

RAND Corporation

CBITS was developed for use by school-based mental health professionals for any student with symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma. SSET was adapted from CBITS for use by any school personnel with the time and interest to work with students affected by trauma. This toolkit assists social workers, school-based mental health professionals, and school personnel in adapting these interventions for use with youth who are in foster care.

Toolkit for Adapting Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) or Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) for ... in Foster Care (Technical Report (RAND))

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jaycox, Lisa H.

Barnes-Proby, Dionne

Schultz, Dana

Pecora, Peter

Mental Health

This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed capabilities-based planning by local military and civilian authorities and results from interviews with such planners at five selected sites. Together, these form the basis for a planning support tool, for which the framework is described in this report.

Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness (Technical Report)

Science & Math

Moore, Melinda

Castaneda, Laura Werber

Wermuth, Michael A.

Noricks, Darcy

Earth Sciences

Documents the program and community settings, interventions, and implementations of 15 programs across the country that provide interventions for families in which children have been exposed to violence. The 15 programs were part of Safe Start Promising Approaches, an initiative aimed at building knowledge about the effectiveness of specific intervention strategies intended to reduce the harmful effects of children1s exposure to violence.

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Implementation (Technical Report)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hickman, Laura J.

Social Sciences

Examines the behavioral and emotional well-being of a select sample of youth and their nondeployed caregivers in military families who applied to a free camp program for children of military personnel and assesses how they are coping with parental deployment, with attention to their emotional, social, and and academic functioning and the factors that may be associated with greater difficulties.

Views from the Homefront: The Experience of Youth and Spouses from Military Families (Technical Report (RAND))

Tanielian, Terri

Han Bing

Lara-Cinisomo, Sandraluz

The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of military family readiness and its sources. This report describes the theoretical model that informed the study design, the content of the baseline assessment, the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures, and the baseline sample of military families.

The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

Karney, Benjamin R.

Meadows, Sarah O.

Since 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has embarked on a pioneering effort to advance a Culture of Health in which “everyone in our diverse society leads healthier lives now and for generations to come.” To put the Culture of Health vision into action, RAND Health supported development of an action framework and measurement strategy. This report summarizes the stakeholder engagement efforts RAND used to inform this work.

Stakeholder Perspectives on a Culture of Health: Key Findings

Medical Books

Dubowitz, Tamara

Acosta, Joie D.

Williams, Malcolm V.

Whitley, Margaret D.

May, Linnea Warren

Administration & Medicine Economics

This report describes the study design and summary data from the first year of data collection for the Urban Child Institute Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early Childhood Study: participant demographics, prenatal and birth measures; child and family health and nutrition; mothers’ mental and behavioral health; and cognitive performance, psychosocial measures, and biological samples for mothers and children.

The Urban Child Institute CANDLE Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

Burns, Rachel M.

Martin, Laurie T.

Shih, Regina A.

Sontag-Padilla, Lisa M.

Tylavsky, Frances

Griffin, Beth Ann

Women's Health

In 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) embarked on a pioneering effort to advance a Culture of Health initiative. A Culture of Health places well-being at the center of every aspect of life, with the goal of enabling everyone in our diverse society to lead healthier lives. To implement this vision, RWJF worked with RAND to develop an action framework that identifies how the nation will work toward achieving these outcomes.

Building a National Culture of Health: Background, Action Framework, Measures, and Next Steps

Miller, Carolyn

Plough, Alonzo L.

Nelson, Christopher

Yeung, Douglas

Carman, Katherine Grace

Tait, Margaret

Leviton, Laura

Orleans, Tracy

Trujillo, Matthew D.

Towe, Vivian L.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This report is the last of a six-volume series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It analyzes U.S. strengths and weaknesses, and suggests adaptations for this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. The report offers three alternative strategic concepts and evaluates their underlying assumptions, costs, risks, and constraints.

Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World: In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity (Strategic Rethink)

Business & Money

Solomon, Richard H.

Laird, Burgess

Shatz, Howard J.

Camm, Frank

Lempert, Robert J.

Knopman, Debra

Hoehn, Andrew R.

Efron, Sonni

Yost, Casimir

Economics

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