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Bronx Health REACH: Research and Evaluation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bronx Health REACH is part of a national program funded by the Centers for Disease Control that is intended to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health. This project focuses primarily on diabetes and related heart disease in a four-zip code neighborhood in the Bronx. Working with the Institute for Urban Family Health and a coalition of community based organizations, CHPSR is undertaking formative research and evaluation to track and measure progress in terms of capacity building, community/systems change, change among change agents, and change in risk/protective behavior; provide feedback to the Coalition to strengthen its information base in a way that will support decision-making and allow the initiative to undertake mid-course corrections; and assess the impact and effectiveness of the major strategies employed by the Coalition.
Principal Investigator(s): Sue Kaplan
Co-Principal Investigator(s): John Billings
Additional Resources
The Institute for Urban Family Health: The Bronx Health REACH webpage
Evaluation of the Ways to Work Program
New York Work Exchange / Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health Agencies
This evaluation focuses on the Ways to Work program - a demonstration project funding five mental health providers to integrate employment services into clinical settings as part of the mental health system's emphasis on promoting evidence-based, best practices. The goals of this process evaluation are to document and describe how agencies implement these employment-centered innovations, how they work to change the culture such that it promotes employment, how they adapt "best practices" to need and characteristics of their settings and consumers, and how these innovations fare over time in different clinical settings and environments. The evaluation follows the implementation of the Ways to Work programs over three years, through December 2004.
Principal Investigator(s): Colleen Gillespie
National Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
In 1996, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the ten-year Urban Health Initiative (UHI) with the goal of improving the health and safety of young people in economically distressed cities. After a two year planning process, five cities -- Baltimore, MD. Detroit MI, Oakland CA, Philadelphia PA and Richmond VA - were selected to implement their plans for UHI. Although the Foundation allowed cities considerable latitude in developing strategies, collaboration, the use of data, and changing public and private health, economic and social systems guide the way in which sites are to move forward with their plans. The purpose of the national evaluation is to determine whether UHI can effect change on a range of health and safety outcomes for young people in the five cities over the course of eight years. These changes are being examined relative to trends in 10 other distressed cities in the U.S. The national evaluation uses five data collection methods: five methods: annual site visits to each of the UHI cities to meet with program staff and other leaders, annual semi-structured interviews with a group of civic leaders in each of the five UHI cities and 10 other economically distressed cities chosen (using a cluster analysis) for comparison; an analysis of federal, state and public city dollars spent on children and youth in the UHI cities at three points over the ten years; a national telephone household survey of parents and youth (SAY), three times over the ten years, with oversamples in each of the five UHI cities and their suburbs, and an oversample in the comparison cities and their suburbs; and an analysis of trends on over 25 contextual indicators and health and safety outcomes in both the UHI site and "comparison" cities.
Click here to go to the web page of the National Evaluation of the Urban Health Initiative, where you can read a detailed description of the evaluation as well as download related articles and presentations.
Principal Investigator(s): Beth Weitzman
Project Director(s): Diana Silver
Collaborator(s): Charles Brecher, Tod Mijanovich
