Download or read book Enacting an improved response to sexual assault written by Patricia A. Melton. and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault is a violent crime that traumatizes individual victims and endangers entire communities. Every victim of sexual assault deserves an opportunity for justice and access to the resources they need to recover from this trauma. In addition, many perpetrators of sexual assaults are serial offenders who also commit other violent crimes, including armed robberies, aggravated assaults, burglary, domestic violence, and homicides, against strangers and acquaintances. Criminal justice agencies have the power to create a strategic, sustainable plan for an improved response to sexual assault that aligns with current best practices and national recommendations. In this document, we define an “improved response” as an approach that supports effective investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases, holds perpetrators accountable, and promotes healing and recovery for victims of sexual assault. This guide will help prosecutor and law enforcement agencies create a process with milestones, goals, and suggested actions, all designed to support a successful and sustainable approach for addressing sexual assault cases. Improving the criminal justice system’s response to sexual assault ultimately improves public safety and promotes trust between criminal justice agencies and the communities they serve.

Download or read book Planning for an innovation district written by Sara Lawrence and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation districts are physical spaces that serve to strengthen the foundations and institutions of an innovation ecosystem. The design, implementation, and management of formalized innovation districts is a new practice area. Research draws upon the experience of concentrated areas of innovation that occurred organically, such as Boston’s Route 128, as well as intentional projects to bring together innovators in large science and technology parks, such as North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Existing research focuses on how to define and design innovation districts and evaluate their impact, as well as general policy considerations. In this paper, we review the definitions and benefits of an innovation district, reviewing the existing empirical research on their impacts. We then propose a series of questions to guide practitioners in addressing the economic, physical, social, and governance elements of an innovation district. Finally, we outline some of the challenges in creating an innovation district and ways to measure progress, to allow practitioners to get ahead of potential issues in the future. This paper is intended to help policymakers and practitioners working in innovation and economic development translate the concepts of innovation ecosystems into actionable next steps for planning innovation districts in their communities.

Download or read book Making clinical trials more patient centered using digital interactive e consent tools written by Barbara Bowles Biesecker and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research participants are required to give their consent to participate in clinical trials and nonexempt government-funded studies. The goal is to facilitate participant understanding of the intent of the research, its voluntary nature, and the potential benefits and harms. Ideally, participants make an informed choice whether to participate; one that is based on having sufficient relevant knowledge and that is consistent with their values and preferences. Achieving this objective can be challenging, and as such, many scholars have declared the consent process flawed or “broken.” Moreover, clinical trials are complex studies, and compelling evidence suggests that current consent processes are inadequate in achieving informed choice. E-consent offers a dynamic, engaging consent delivery mode that can effectively support making informed decisions about whether to participate in a trial.

Download or read book Praying in the Dirt written by Danny Francis and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Youth rural urban migration in Bungoma Kenya written by Elizabeth Karl Eckert and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides insights into a specific, hard-to-reach youth subpopulation—those born in agricultural areas in Western Kenya who migrate to large towns and cities—that is often missed by research and development activities. Using a mixed-methods approach, we find high variability in movement of youth between rural villages, towns, and large urban areas. Top reasons for youth migration align with existing literature, including pursuit of job opportunities and education. For youth from villages where crop farming is the primary economic activity for young adults, 77 percent responded that they are very interested in that work, in contrast to the common notion that youth are disinterested in agriculture. We also find many youth interested in settling permanently in their villages in the future. This research confirms that youth migration is dynamic, requiring that policymakers and development practitioners employ methods of engaging youth that recognize the diversity of profiles and mobility of this set of individuals.

Download or read book The Hopwood Poets Revisited written by Donald Beagle and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: This book began as a set of Q&A conversations with a select group of living poets who have won Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan. In reading interviews with poets, I've felt that foundational questions are too often left unasked, and therefore remain unanswered. Understandably, no interviewer wishes to burden a noted author with questions one assumes they may have answered hundreds of times. But given the remarkable variety of talented poets who have won Hopwood Awards over the decades, my sense was that asking even obvious questions might elicit an interesting variety of replies. So I set my interviewer's ego aside, and began with very basic queries drawn from my experience teaching undergraduate poetry workshops at Duke University in the late 1980's, and (years earlier), at Jackson Community College in Michigan. Having noted that students on these very different campuses tended to ask similar questions of visiting poets, I settled on a handful of standard questions, while adding one or two personalized for each.INCLUDES INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH: Robert Hayden, John Ciardi, Anne Stevenson, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Nancy Willard, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Tom Clark, X.J. Kennedy, Patricia Hooper, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Garrett Hongo, Donald Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Tung-Hui Hu, Derek Mong.

Download or read book Tracking the quality of addiction treatment over time and across states written by Tami Mark and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study was to track trends in the signs of higher-quality addiction treatment as defined by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Addiction, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. We analyzed the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services from 2007 through 2017 to determine the percent of facilities having the characteristics of higher quality. We analyzed the percent by state and over time. • We found improvements between 2007 and 2017 on most measures, but performance on several measures remained low. • Most programs reported providing evidence-based behavioral therapies. • Half or fewer facilities offered medications for opioid use disorder; mental health assessments; testing for hepatitis C, HIV, and sexually transmitted diseases; self-help groups; employment assistance; and transportation assistance. • There was significant state-level variation across the measures.

Download or read book The Ghosts That Walk in Washington written by Hans Holzer and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spies, revolutionary war heroes, and pre-revolutionary belles, as well as some very modern people who report contacts with Presidents Lincoln, Wilson, and Kennedy—these are just a few of the many fascinating people and ghosts parapsychologist Hans Holzer has met in Washington, D.C. Through reputable mediums, Professor Holzer has made contact with restless personalities from the past and lent a sympathetic ear to their problems. He has found that the ghosts that walk in Washington are unique, and through this exciting and telling account of his ghost-hunting adventures there, we, too, are able to meet some of the troubled souls that haunt our nation’s capital, and learn of the undercover work, political intrigue, love, hatred, and unsolved mysteries that have marked Washington’s dark and sometimes frightening past. The ghosts that walk in Washington have deep meaning far beyond the city limits: America’s psychic debt is offered to public scrutiny here by a topflight expert. The result is gripping.

Download or read book A Little Gray Book of Grim Tales written by Ray Garton and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Garton has been publishing horror and dark suspense for thirty years and has attracted a faithful and appreciative audience for his unique brand of storytelling. His no-frills style and clever plots make his novels and short fiction sleek, fast-running entertainments. This collection brings together a representative sample of his short fiction that is aptly named “grim.” This Little Book serves as a great introduction to his work for new readers and a fine addition for his long-time fans and collectors. Stories included in this collection: Cat Lover Autophagy The Guy Down the Street Sammy Comes Home

Download or read book Sustaining physical activity following cardiac rehabilitation discharge written by Kelly R. Evenson and published by RTI Press. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because many patients reduce exercise following outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR), we developed an intervention to assist with the transition and evaluated its feasibility and preliminary efficacy using a one-group pretest–posttest design. Five CR patients were enrolled ~1 month prior to CR discharge and provided an activity tracker. Each week during CR they received a summary of their physical activity and steps. Following CR discharge, participants received an individualized report that included their physical activity and step history, information on specific features of the activity tracker, and encouraging messages from former CR patients for each of the next 6 weeks. Mixed model trajectory analyses were used to test the intervention effect separately for active minutes and steps modeling three study phases: pre-intervention (day activity tracking began to CR discharge), intervention (day following CR discharge to day when final report sent), and maintenance (day following the final report to ~1 month later). Activity tracking was successfully deployed and, with weekly reports following CR, may offset the usual decline in physical activity. When weekly reports ceased, a decline in steps/day occurred. A scaled-up intervention with a more rigorous study design with sufficient sample size can evaluate this approach further.

Download or read book A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tails written by David J. Schow and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Little Books Series II is A Little Aqua Book of Creature Tales by David J. Schow! If you were a fan and collector of the original series of Little Books, you will definitely want these! From the author’s afterword: "There are a lot of strange references in this modest collection -- everything from second-run art moviehouses to VHS rental stores -- that will seem quaintly outdated to the modern reader. To me, in retrospect, the stories themselves seem almost wistful, romanticized but not nostalgic, since they were of their time and should not be tampered with to make them smell contemporary when they are not. Very little exploding-head splat aesthetic here. 'Monsters are what you’ll find; the old-school creatures, and a possible answer to the question: Well, what happened to them after?'" Included in this collection: "One for the Horrors" "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" "(Melodrama)" "Gills" "Murder" "The Incredibly Dinky Man" "Afterword: Thirty Years of Monsters"

Download or read book Pieces of My Heart written by Gerardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tree River Fish written by L. C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters from a Doughboy written by Sally Stallings and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WWI letters of Laurence Stallings written August 1917 through November 8, 1919, while a young Marine in The Great War. Including the Prologue and Epilogue from THE DOUGHBOYS, THE STORY OF THE AEF, 1917-1918.

Download or read book You Deserve Flowers written by Francis and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Shelton Story written by Ken Keuffel and published by Library Partners Press. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of my life before and during my directorship of the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University.

Download or read book Cracker Gothic written by Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR Wanda Duncan: "In Cracker Gothic, Wanda Duncan writes about the intersections between family and place with precision, wit, and loving detail. Capturing moments that are at times humorous and at other times heartbreaking, Duncan makes spending time in the Florida swamp an unexpected, lyrical pleasure." - Aimee Mepham, author of "Raving Ones"