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Research Report

State of Washington, D.C.'s Neighborhoods, 2010

The District of Columbia has undergone many demographic and economic shifts over the past decade.
Research Report

Strategic Plan for a Collaborative Neighborhood-Based Crime Prevention Initiative

A promising approach to reducing and preventing crime at the neighborhood level involves addressing both immediate and long-term risk factors for crime.
Research Report

The District of Columbia Mayor's Focused Improvement Area Initiative: A Review of Past Practice

In partnership with local agencies, the DC Mayor launched the Focused Improvement Area Initiative in select high-crime areas.
Testimony

Using Lessons from Recent Innovations to Create a Holistic Approach to Intervening with Juveniles

Innovative practices - such as the Reclaiming Futures initiative, drug courts, and Project HOPE - can be used to better serve juveniles involved with the justice system and to improve public safety, the Urban Institute's John Roman told a committ
Testimony

Serious Adolescent Offenders, Placements, and Outcomes

To understand better how youth in juvenile justice are doing under alternative policies and placements, improved access to data from all relevant agencies is needed, concluded Akiva Liberman at a hearing of a District of Columbia city council com
Fact Sheet

Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Foreclosure Monitor, Winter 2011

The Washington, D.C.
Brief

Kiosk Supervision for the District of Columbia

This brief discusses the capabilities of kiosk supervision technology, how kiosk supervision fits within a broader risk reduction supervision strategy, challenges of kiosk implementation, and empirical evidence regarding kiosk supervision impacts
Brief

Nonprofit-Government Contracting in the Nation's Capital: Challenges and Opportunities

Findings from the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropys National Survey of Nonprofit-Government Contracting and Grants show that a majority of human service organizations in Washington, D.C.
Highlights

Counting the Homeless in DC

Not long ago, I joined volunteers in Washington, DC to conduct the local homelessness census.  This “point-in-time” count happens every year here in late January.  Although I frequently use point-in-time data to track trends in homelessness in DC
Journal Article

Expanding Health Coverage in the District of Columbia: DC's Shift from Providing Services to Subsidizing Individuals and Its Continuing Challenges in

In 2001 Washington, D.C. ceased paying for services to the uninsured via its underperforming public hospital and associated clinics.
Brief

Public School Choice and Student Achievement in the District of Columbia

This study examines the multi-faceted public school choice environment in the District of Columbia and the effects of alternative public schools on the achievement levels of students who exercise this type of school choice.
Research Report

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Foreclosure Monitor: Technical Appendix - Revised - January, 2011

The Washington, D.C.
Research Report

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Foreclosure Monitor: Technical Appendix - April 2010

The Washington, D.C.
Research Report

Promising Practices of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department

In recent years, Washington, DC has experienced sizable declines in violent crime. These declines have outpaced national trends across most violent crime categories.
Research Report

Rising Foreclosures Overwhelm Washington, DC Area Counseling Organizations

This report discusses the results from surveys of housing counseling and legal service organizations and interviews with social service organizations in the Washington, DC, area.