AVANCE Quality Child Care Matters
The Kinder Institute is helping to measure the impact of the QCCM program on providers' skills, practices and business operations.
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The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and United Way of Greater Houston's Coffee & Quality Case Study program works with designated United Way organizations to 1) identify ways to build and bolster the organization's current data-collecting practices, 2) use data to understand and improve program outcomes, and 3) elevate generalizable insights that can support the work of other nonprofits.
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The Kinder Institute is examining the long-term impact of the ECI program on children’s educational outcomes
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The Houston Education Research Consortium conducts studies on how to support emergent bilingual students in the Houston region.
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The Kinder Institute is helping Alief ISD evaluate it Engaging All Families program, which provides programs and services to help families improve their access to economic opportunity.
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Greater Houston Community Panel
The Greater Houston Community Panel is composed of thousands of scientifically selected adults in Harris County, Fort Bend County and Montgomery County, Texas, who are regularly surveyed about their families and communities, including their health, well-being, expectations, opinions, priorities and aspirations.
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Working with community organizations, the Kinder Institute is engaged in an effort to survey residents in targeted neighborhoods about the condition of their homes and neighborhoods.
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Houston Community Data Connections
An interactive data platform, this initiative seeks to facilitate the practical use of data by city and community leaders for decision-making and capacity building in Houston's communities.
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What are the biggest problems facing Houston? What tools do we have to solve them? Rice University and the City of Houston have joined forces to create Houston Solutions Lab, building on other recent efforts to bring together research and policy to help answer those questions.
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This evaluation of United Way's Integrated Client Journey initiative seeks to better understand which clients are "ready" to take steps toward financial stability.
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For over four decades, the Kinder Houston Area Survey has been tracking the changing attitudes and experiences of Houstonians.
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LENA Start Language Development Program
The Kinder Institute is evaluating the impact of the LENA Start program on children’s linguistic and cognitive development within Alief ISD.
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Mobility, Opportunity Neighborhoods, and Family Impacts
This study, conducted in collaboration with the Houston Housing Authority, explores families' experiences with housing voucher programs, including HHA's new mobility program.
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The Path to Wellness initiative is focused on improving maternal health outcomes in the Greater Houston area.
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This project aims to adapt the existing Paths [Senderos] program to assist individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities cope with grief.
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Postsecondary readiness broadly refers to how well students are prepared for education, employment or other pathways after high school.
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Research has long linked early childhood education to later academic success and suggested it may be a critical part of closing the persistent academic disparities between student groups.
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Resilience and Recovery Tracker
The Houston area’s Resilience and Recovery Tracker was developed by Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research with support from Chevron. It provides information on disaster recovery efforts from natural and man-made hazards, such as floods, climate disasters, public health crises, and chemical spills.
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The Kinder Institute’s State of Housing in Harris County and Houston reports provide annual updates across a variety of housing-related indicators tracking shifts in the region's housing system.
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Research from the Kinder Institute on student mobility includes a multiyear study in Texas and across the Houston area to better understand which students change schools and the consequences those changes have on educational outcomes.
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