The study identifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities―including effective programs, practices, and policies―that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color.

Reparable Harm: Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Lois M.

Schultz, Dana

Kilburn, Rebecca M.

Social Sciences

RAND Corporation

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities--including effective programs, practices, and policies--that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color.

Reparable Harm: Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California, Executive Summary

Kilburn, M. Rebecca

Arkansas' Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act invests the state's share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. This report assesses the progress of each of the funded programs in achieving its long-range goals, tracks the programs' process indicators, and updates trends in outcome measures developed to monitor effects of the funded programs on smoking and other health-related outcomes.

Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress During 2006 and 2007

Business & Money

Tharp-Taylor, Shannah

Dubowitz, Tamara

Yu, Hao

Lovejoy, Susan

Business Culture

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

Chandra, Anita

Pecora, Peter

Mental Health

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)

Hickman, Laura J.

Arkansas' Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act invests the state's share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. This report evaluates the activities and progress of each of the funded programs in achieving its goals and updates trends in outcome measures developed to monitor effects of the funded programs on smoking and other health-related outcome.

Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress During 2008 and 2009 (Technical Report)

Lovejoy, Susan L.

The Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative addressed depression among parents of children with early childhood developmental delays, aligning the early intervention and behavioral health systems with a focus on relationship-based care. The initiative focused on identification of at-risk families, referral, and engagement in services that addressed the needs of parents and young children in the context of their relationship.

Transforming Systems for Parental Depression and Early Childhood Developmental Delays: Findings and Lessons Learned from the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children Initiative

Pincus, Harold Alan

Firth, Ray

Sontag-Padilla, Lisa M.

Reynolds, Kerry A.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Schultz, Dana. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Schultz, Dana