Common Ground: Lessons Learned From Five States That Reduced Juvenile Confinement By More Than Half

After decades of expanding correctional populations in the United States, there is a growing awareness that we need to end the era of over-incarceration. Primarily this realization has formed around the adult correctional population, with less attention paid by the media or the general public to young people who are confined for delinquent behavior or prior to adjudication. This is perhaps because of the small percentage of youth that makeup the total incarcerated population: in 2010, approximately 2,270,100 adults were incarcerated in the U.S., compared to 70,792 youth.Juvenile corrections is a multi-faceted and complex topic with policies and practices that vary from state to state and sometimes from courthouse to courthouse. Finding uniform measures and comparable data can be challenging. For that reason, the current report takes the snapshot approach; examining states within a set time period across a limited number of variable

Emergency contraception, female condoms and IUDs in Kenya\u27s public sector: Findings from a national diagnostic assessment

In 2005, the Kenya Ministry of Health, Department of Reproductive Health (DRH), began an initiative to strengthen the provision of emergency contraception (EC) in the public sector. As a first step, 700,000 units of the dedicated EC product Postinor 2 were procured by UNFPA for use in government facilities and select providers were trained on its administration. In 2006, the DRH requested assistance from ECafrique, the African Forum on Emergency Contraception, to expand access to the product. This report documents the results of a diagnostic assessment conducted at the outset of this initiative. It examines the provision and utilization of EC in the public sector to inform future program strategies. Upon request from the DRH and the United Nations Population Fund, this assessment also gathered data on two other “underutilized methods” of family planning: female condoms (FCs) and intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs)

Mainstreaming emergency contraception in Ethiopia\u27s public sector: Final project report

The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and ECafrique launched a two-year project in 2004 to mainstream emergency contraception (EC) in the country’s public sector. The project aimed at improving reproductive health care among young women and reducing the country’s abortion rate by expanding access to EC. Overall, its goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating EC within the public sector’s broader contraceptive mix and was guided by the following objectives: to scale-up and promote public sector EC services in five of Ethiopia’s most populated regions; to document the characteristics and use patterns of EC clients in the public sector; and to introduce Postinor 2 as the first dedicated EC pill registered for use in Ethiopia. To achieve these objectives, the project undertook a set of activities aimed at improving provider competency, increasing public demand, and ensuring commodity security. Results of the final project evaluation, detailed in this report, demonstrate the project’s success. Service statistics show that EC utilization steadily increased throughout the implementation period, and data from provider and client surveys provide insight into the attitudes and issues influencing EC access

Caring for caregivers: An HIV/AIDS workplace intervention for hospital staff in Zambia—Evaluation results

The Horizons Program collaborated on a Caring for Caregivers initiative in Zambia whose objective was to develop and test a risk-reduction workplace program for hospital staff. This was motivated by the recognition that hospital workers are often overlooked in HIV programming, and yet many are infected or affected by HIV. It was also motivated by the fact that hospital staff are heterogeneous, with both clinical and non-clinical staff having varying levels of understanding regarding HIV transmission. Caring for Caregivers was a peer education program targeted at hospital staff and implemented in two hospitals in Zambia, with a combined staff of about 1,700 employees. Although it encountered severe challenges, it was generally well-received and demonstrated some positive outcomes. HIV prevention, treatment, and care strategies should involve healthcare workers not just as a means to reach the community, but as direct and priority beneficiaries as well

Panel II: Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare

Part of the conference: National Security Challenges and the Obama Administration. Appearing: Spike Bowman (University of Virginia), chair ; Kim Taipale (Center for Advanced Students in Science and Technology Policy), Paul Rosenzweig (Red Branch Consulting PLLC), and Bradford Bleier (Federal Bureau of Investigation), panelists

Panel II: Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare

Part of the conference: National Security Challenges and the Obama Administration. Appearing: Spike Bowman (University of Virginia), chair ; Kim Taipale (Center for Advanced Students in Science and Technology Policy), Paul Rosenzweig (Red Branch Consulting PLLC), and Bradford Bleier (Federal Bureau of Investigation), panelists