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Medicaid Research
SUPLN meeting: Steve Metraux, Director of CCRS and Mary Joan McDuffie, CCRS Medicaid Research Program Director attended the 2019 State University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) Annual Meeting in December in Washington, DC. SUPLN is an AcademyHealth organization with the goal of facilitating collaborations among Universities that have partnerships with their state Medicaid agencies.
DelCAN: Erin Knight, Associate Director, CCRS, and policy scientists Mary Joan McDuffie, MA and Katie Gifford, PhD, along with Hira Rashid, PhD graduate student, continue working on the DelCAN evaluation. DelCAN is an intervention within Delaware designed to increase access to contraceptives and decrease unintended pregnancy. CCRS is in the fourth year of a six year evaluation. An article in the Journal of Maternal and Child Health has been accepted and will be published shortly.
Multi-state opioids: Mary Joan McDuffie, MA and Katie Gifford, PhD, continue working on a multi-state opioid project. Eleven states are collaborating to produce standardized metrics about trends in opioid use and treatment.
Homelessness Research
Steve Metraux, Director of CCRS; Barbara Poppe, former executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness; and Alexa Timmreck, a PhD student and CCRS Research Assistant, submitted a report in November to the City of Albuquerque assessing the need for expanded shelter capacity given the recent dynamics of homelessness in this city. For media coverage of this study, please see the recent article in the Albuquerque Journal.
KIDS COUNT in Delaware
In January 2020, KIDS COUNT in Delaware will be releasing a page-a-day style calendar to count down the days in our states legislative session. A print version of the calendar will be provided to legislators in both the House of Representatives and the Senate on Delawares first day of session. But the information contained in the calendar is not just for legislators - you can follow the year electronically too: get daily updates @dekidscount on Facebook and Twitter.