What\u27s in it for me? Perspectives from Community Participants in an Inter-professional Service Learning Program

Purpose: This study assessed Interdisciplinary Family Health (IFH) Program participants‘ perceived health outcomes associated with program participation at the University of Florida. Background: Service-learning has emerged as a dynamic way in which students derive practical skills to address the needs of their community. Research has probed student perspectives but has seldom explored community feedback. The Interdisciplinary Family Health Program (IFH) is a mandatory Interprofessional service learning experience designed to foster collaborative teamwork across first year health professions students at UF. Students are assigned in interprofessional teams of four to improve a local volunteer family’s health over the course of four visits in one academic year. Description of Research: Data from twenty-one semi-structured telephone interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed to assess participants’ perceived health outcomes using a grounded theory approach. Emergent themes were conceptualized via selective coding and peer-reviewing. Results: All program participants reported positive health outcomes within a social support construct. Responses fell into four social support domains within a greater framework of bridging student-participant generations: informational support, emotional support, companionship support, and tangible support. Trends in social support domains observed were associated with participant SES. Participants with lower SES levels reported greater needs for health information and access, whereas participants with higher SES levels desired building social relationships with students. Conclusions: Tailoring IPE training to address specific social support domains and SES associations is an opportunity for enhanced participant experiences and perceived health outcomes. Educational planning can utilize social support domain-SES association findings as a guide for students to attune their efforts at improving the overall health outcomes of their target population. Learning Objectives and Related Conference Objectives: Participants will be able to describe qualitative methods of evaluating perceived patient health outcomes in assessing the effectiveness of the Interdisciplinary Family Health Program (Conference Objective 1). Participants will be able to communicate research findings regarding social support domain-SES approaches for enhanced educational programming and perceived patient health outcomes (Conference Objective 3)

What Works? A Study of Effective Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Programs

Examines factors that lead to desirable outcomes in mental health consultation programs: solid program infrastructure, highly qualified consultants, and quality support services. Analyzes targeted outcomes, measurements, and intensity of interventions

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change: lessons from Madagascar

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address the purposive placement of participating communities and estimate the effect of the availability of the program at the community level on nutritional outcomes. The authors find that the program helped 0-5 year old children in the participating communities to bridge the gap in weight for age z-scores and the incidence of underweight. The program also had significant effects in protecting long-term nutritional outcomes (height for age z-scores and incidence of stunting) against an underlying negative trend in the absence of the program. Importantly, the effect of the program exhibits substantial heterogeneity: gains in nutritional outcomes are larger for more educated mothers and for villages with better infrastructure. The program enables the analysis to isolate responsiveness to information provision and disentangle the effect of knowledge in the education effect on nutritional outcomes. The results are suggestive of important complementarities among child care, maternal education, and community infrastructure

THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING OUTCOMES PRODUCTIVE SUBJECTS AND SELF-RELIANCE LEARNING WITH ACHIEVEMENT INDUSTRIAL WORK PRACTICES STUDENTS OF GRADE XII ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING SKILLS PROGRAM AT SMKN 3 YOGYAKARTA ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

This study aimed to determine: (1) the influence of Learning Outcomes Productive Subjects with Achievement Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013. (2) the influence Self-Reliance Learning with Achievement Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013. (3) the influence of Learning Outcomes Productive Subjects and Self-Reliance Learning jointly with Achievement Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013. This research is a study of ex post facto. The population of the research are students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program Academic Year 2012/2013 amounts to 69 students who entirely taken as a subject of research. Testing instruments has implemented by 33 student of grade XI Electronics Engineering Skills Program. The validity of the tests carries out by the technique of Pearson Product Moment correlation, whereas the reliability test used Alpha Cronbach formula. To know how the influence of Learning Outcomes Productive Subject with Achievement Industrial Work Practices and the influence of Self-Reliance Learning with Achievement Industrial Work Practices can use analysis techniques of Product Moment correlation. Regression analysis techniques use to know the influence of Learning Outcomes Productive Subject and Self-Reliance Learning jointly with the Achievements Industrial Work Practices. The results showed that: (1) there is a positive influence between Learning Outcomes Productive Subject with Achievement Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013 as evidenced by the price of rx1y (0,340) is greater than rtabel (0.235) at the 5% significance level. (2) there is a positive influence between Self-Reliance Learning with Achievement Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013 as evidenced by the price rx2y (0,353) greater than rtabel (0.235) at the 5% significance level. (3) there is a positive influence between Learning Outcomes Productive Subject and Self- Reliance Learning jointly with Achievements Industrial Work Practices students of grade XII Electronics Engineering Skills Program at SMKN 3 Yogyakarta Academic Year 2012/2013 as evidenced by the price of Ry (1,2) (0,440) greater than rtabel (0.235) at the 5% significance level. The coefficient of determination is (R2y (1, 2)) of 0,194. Effective contribution of Learning Outcomes Productive Subject of 9,2732% and Self-Reliance Learning of 10,1268%. Keywords: productive subject, self-reliance learning, industrial work practice

Effectiveness of early intervention programs for parents of preterm infants: a meta-review of systematic reviews

Background: Various intervention programs exist for parents of preterm babies and some systematic reviews (SRs) have synthesised the evidence of their effectiveness. These reviews are, however, limited to specific interventions, components, or outcomes, and a comprehensive evidence base is lacking. The aim of this meta-review was to appraise and meta-synthesise the evidence from existing SRs to provide a comprehensive evidence base on the effectiveness of interventions for parents of preterm infants on parental and infant outcomes. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search of the following databases to identify relevant SRs: Cochrane library, Web of science, EMBASE, CINAHL, British Nursing Index, PsycINFO, Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, IBSS, DOAJ, ERIC, EPPI-Centre, PROSPERO, WHO Library. Additional searches were conducted using authors’ institutional libraries, Google Scholar, and the reference lists of identified reviews. Identified articles were screened in two stages against an inclusion criteria with titles and abstracts screened first followed by full-text screening. Selected SRs were appraised using the AMSTAR tool. Extracted data using a predesigned tool were synthesised narratively examining the direction of impact on outcomes. Results: We found 11 SRs eligible for inclusion that synthesised a total of 343 quantitative primary studies. The average quality of the SRs was ‘medium’. Thirty four interventions were reported across the SRs with considerable heterogeneity in the structural framework and the targeted outcomes that included maternal-infant dyadic, maternal/parental, and infant outcomes. Among all interventions, Kangaroo Care (KC) showed the most frequent positive impact across outcomes (n = 19) followed by Mother Infant Transaction Program (MITP) (n = 14). Other interventions with most consistent positive impact on infant outcomes were Modified-Mother Infant Transaction Program (M-MITP) (n = 6), Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) (n = 5) and Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE) (n = 5). Overall, interventions with both home and facility based components showed the most frequent positive impact across outcomes. Conclusions: Neonatal care policy and planning for preterm babies should consider the implementation of interventions with most positive impact on outcomes. The heterogeneity in interventions and outcomes calls for the development and implementation of an integrated program for parents of preterm infants with a clearly defined global set of parental and infant outcomes

Washington State Community Jobs: A Case Example of Statewide Transitional Jobs Efforts Serving TANF Recipients

This case study documents the development, administration, and outcomes of the Washington State Community Jobs program, the oldest and largest Transitional Jobs program serving TANF recipients

Improving nutritional status through behavioral change : lessons from Madagascar

This paper provides evidence of the effects of a large-scale intervention that focuses on the quality of nutritional and child care inputs during the early stages of life. The empirical strategy uses a combination of double-difference and weighting estimators in a longitudinal survey to address the purposive placement of participating communities and estimate the effect of the availability of the program at the community level on nutritional outcomes. The authors find that the program helped 0-5 year old children in the participating communities to bridge the gap in weight for age z-scores and the incidence of underweight. The program also had significant effects in protecting long-term nutritional outcomes (height for age z-scores and incidence of stunting) against an underlying negative trend in the absence of the program. Importantly, the effect of the program exhibits substantial heterogeneity: gains in nutritional outcomes are larger for more educated mothers and for villages with better infrastructure. The program enables the analysis to isolate responsiveness to information provision and disentangle the effect of knowledge in the education effect on nutritional outcomes. The results are suggestive of important complementarities among child care, maternal education, and community infrastructure.Population Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Early Child and Children's Health,Housing&Human Habitats,Nutrition

Alcoa Foundation's Global Internship Program for Unemployed Youth Midterm Evaluation

This midterm report presents findings for the Alcoa Global Internship Program for Unemployed Youth (hereafter the Alcoa Program), a program funded by Alcoa Foundation, Inc., and implemented by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Launched in October 2013, the main purpose of the Alcoa Program is to provide workforce development opportunities to unemployed youth worldwide with the goal of increasing their employability in the manufacturing sector. The findings and results of the midterm evaluation are intended to capture the outcomes and impacts of the program thus far and provide recommendations for future program implementation

LEAD Program Evaluation: Recidivism Report

The LEAD program was established in 2011 as a means of diverting those suspected of low-level drug and prostitution criminal activity to case management and other supportive services instead of jail and prosecution. The primary aim of the LEAD program is to reduce criminal recidivism. Secondary aims include reductions in criminal justice service utilization and associated costs as well as improvements for psychosocial, housing and quality-of-life outcomes. Because LEAD is the first known pre-booking diversion program of its kind in the United States, an evaluation is critically needed to inform key stakeholders, policy makers, and other interested parties of its impact. The evaluation of the LEAD program described in this report represents a response to this need.Background: This report was written by the University of Washington LEAD Evaluation Team at the request of the LEAD Policy Coordinating Group and fulfills the first of three LEAD evaluation aims. Purpose: This report describes findings from a quantitative analysis comparing outcomes for LEAD participants versus "system-as-usual" control participants on shorter- and longer-term changes on recidivism outcomes, including arrests (i.e., being taken into custody by legal authority) and criminal charges (i.e., filing of a criminal case in court). Arrests and criminal charges were chosen as the recidivism outcomes because they likely reflect individual behavior more than convictions, which are more heavily impacted by criminal justice system variables external to the individual. Findings: Analyses indicated statistically significant recidivism improvement for the LEAD group compared to the control group on some shorter- and longer-term outcomes

NFF Capital Partners 2011 Portfolio Performance Report

Reviews outcomes of a program launched in 2006 to build philanthropic equity by offering nonprofit organizations dedicated growth capital to become sustainable. Examines core program metrics, business model revenues, and progress toward sustainability