Results List
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Bermuda Civil Society Project: Analysis of Social Service Agencies
Source: Root Cause
This report aims to increase understanding of the gaps and overlaps in services being provided to address social issues in Bermuda. It is part of the Bermuda Civil Society Project (BCSP), an independent research and data analysis initiative designed to clarify how nonprofit agencies and other…
Resource type: Research Report
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Strategies for Implementing School-Based Services
Source: Child Trends
Top practitioners and policymakers from New Mexico share what they learned in implementing school-based health services and extended learning opportunities in this case study prepared by Child Trends. Elev8 New Mexico is an initiative of the Children & Youth Programme of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and…
Resource type: Research Report
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A Baseline Study on the Provision of Hospice/Specialist Palliative Care Services in Ireland
Source: The Irish Hospice Foundation
This baseline study found a wide regional divergence in the range of services and care options available to people in the Republic of Ireland and also revealed a significant shortfall in government funding as well as a consequent lack of progress in the development of…
Resource type: Research Report
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The Centre for Effective Services’ Library
The Centre for Effective Services’ online library offers a variety of resources. Learn more > The Centre for Effective Services’ (CES) online library makes available a great quantity of relevant, usable evidence for policy makers, service commissioners, providers and practitioners. CES has served as Atlantic’s long-time partner…
Resource type: Research Report
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Transforming Human Services for Older Adults: Progress Report 2007–2010
Source: Alliance for Children and Families
This report, funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, examines the effect and impact of solutions generated by the Alliance for Children and Families’ New Age of Ageing Initiative at the midpoint of its five-year pilot project. The project aims to increase the number of trained professionals…
Resource type: Research Report
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Pre-Intervention Assessments of Primary Health Care and Prevention Services in Viet Nam
Source: Population Council
The results of a commune-level study of health care services in Khanh Hoa and Da Nang provinces in Viet Nam are examined in this report by the Population Council, prepared for The Atlantic Philanthropies.
Resource type: Research Report
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Esther’s Story: Walking Again Thanks to Adult Day Services
“The first day I went to the centre, I was scared, I was in a wheelchair, and I was paralysed on the left side. Everybody was so friendly. My arm was frozen to my side, and now I can move it and I can open…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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School-Based Health Services Help Students Develop to Their Full Potential
Oakland sixth-grader Carlos Mazariego took his first trip away from home when he travelled to Washington, D.C., for a national Elev8 youth advocacy trip. He and nine other students met with staff from the offices of California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and advocated…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Ten Years of Learning
Source: Centre for Effective Services
For more than a decade, the Atlantic Philanthropies, sometimes in conjunction with Government and other organisations, has invested over €127 million/£105 million in 30 partner agencies and community groups running 52 prevention and early intervention services and programmes across the island of Ireland. This document…
Resource type: Research Report
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Prevention and Early Intervention Programme in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Source: Mathematica Policy Research
Children and youth organisations on the island of Ireland are building a strong body of prevention and early intervention practices, according to an evaluation of Atlantic’s investments by Mathematica Policy Research. Meanwhile, research organisations are acquiring new expertise in evaluating children’s prevention and early intervention…
Resource type: Evaluation