With meetings from the start of the process and continuous updates through a project’s different stages, we always aim to coordinate closely to ensure that the work is informed by a client’s communities, contexts, and needs. It is because of this that many of our clients come back again and again to work with us. Below is only a partial list of some of our clients.
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An Uphill Climb to Increase Access
The Interplay of Workforce Challenges and Infant/Toddler Slot Expansion in Michigan Nationally, early childhood systems have high turnover and a shortage of qualified workers, which negatively affects the availability of child care for infants and toddlers. In Michigan, 58% of children aged birth to two years live where there is inadequate child care to meet […]
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The Burden of Change
Learning, Compliance, and Psychological Costs of Changes to Michigan’s Child Development and Care Scholarship Payment and CoPayment Structure Making each state’s child care assistance program successful requires coordination among many individuals who have different functions: state administrators, eligibility specialists (i.e., caseworkers), and program beneficiaries, which includes both families and child care providers. In Michigan, the […]
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Findings from the System Evaluation of Homeless Solutions for Boulder County
Public Policy Associates (PPA) was contracted by Homeless Solutions for Boulder County (HSBC) to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the HSBC service system. The goal of the evaluation was to gain a holistic understanding of the system’s assets and challenges. HSBC is an innovative approach to homelessness that involves multiple government entities (including Boulder County, […]
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