We partner with local organizations to build capacity for program evaluation and to provide a framework for health in contexts beyond the health care system including workplaces, early childhood education and childcare centers.
Active Work
The BRITE study seeks to evaluate a bi-directional referral system linking health care clinics with local domestic violence service organizations to enhance the identification and support of people experiencing domestic violence across the state of Louisiana. MAC’s role in this project – lead by the Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence – is to evaluate the degree to which a bi-directional referral system (formal agreements and protocols) and training program for health care providers improves provider’s readiness to screen and refer patients to social services.
Faculty at MAC and the Violence Prevention Institute are partnering with the Vera Institute of Justice, Ubuntu Village NOLA, and the New Orleans City Health Department to evaluate the New Orleans Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative. The purpose of the proposed research is to evaluate the development and implementation process and conduct a quasi-experimental study to assess system change and the impact of a community-based, healing-centered gun violence intervention in decreasing rates of non-fatal and fatal firearm violence in New Orleans. This project is funded by the National Institute of Justice.
Faculty at MAC and the Violence Prevention Institute are working with Beyond Harm New Orleans. The primary aim of this study is to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of the Beyond Harm pretrial intervention program in the New Orleans context, specifically focusing on reducing recidivism among individuals accused of domestic violence. Our specific objectives include: (1) To create survivor defined measures of impact for evaluation efforts, (2) To assess the acceptability and feasibility of a pretrial intervention for both survivors and participants in pretrial diversion. This project is funded by the Department of Justice.
MAC is proud to partner with the Louisiana Department of Health and the Tulane School of Medicine to evaluate the Provider to Provider Consultation Line (PPCL). PPCL is a pediatric and perinatal telehealth mental health consultation program funded by HRSA. PPCL aims to improve health care providers’ capacity to screen, assess, treat, and refer pediatric and/or perinatal patients with mental and behavioral health needs. This program seeks to reach providers statewide, including in rural and medically underserved areas, by providing remote psychiatric consultation services. Our overarching goal is to improve the mental health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum women and pediatric patients through increased access to affordable, culturally and linguistically appropriate treatment and recovery support services.
Educare New Orleans, the 19th school opened in the Educare Learning Network (ELN), is part of a broad community redevelopment effort led by the Bayou District Foundation. Educare New Orleans is the first early childhood development and education facility of its kind in the Gulf South. Educare is a national network of early learning schools which share a platform to leverage strong and lasting investments in early childhood education for low income families. MAC was selected to be the local evaluation partner for Educare New Orleans.
Completed Work
MAC served as the local evaluation partner for the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University. Cowen's Earn and Learn Career Pathways Program was designed to introduce opportunity youth (individuals age 18-24 who are not employed nor in school) to training for high earning, high industry jobs. MAC analyzed Earn and Learn’s mechanisms and program elements with the goal of determining the individual and overall initial program effectiveness and generate recommendations for future cohorts and long-term evaluation.
MAC partnered with Clover, formerly Kingsley House, to evaluate their Early Head Start Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP) program. The goal of the research program partnership was to develop and implement a comprehensive data collection system for Kingsley’s Early Learning Services Division, specifically the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership Program (EHS-CCP). As the local evaluation partner MAC assessed all facets of program implementation, including parent engagement, staff development, child progress and the overall outcomes of the service delivery and the Early Head Start models.
