Anita Chandra

Among the counseling supports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) offers to service members and their families is short-term, solution-focused counseling for common personal and family issues, called non-medical counseling within the DoD. This chartbook summarizes findings from an evaluation of whether non-medical counseling provided by the DoD is effective in improving outcomes and whether effectiveness varies by problem type and/or population.

Among the counseling supports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) offers to service members and their families is short-term, solution-focused counseling for common personal and family issues, called non-medical counseling within the DoD. This report evaluates whether non-medical counseling provided by the DoD is effective in improving outcomes and whether effectiveness varies by problem type and/or population.

Since 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has embarked on a pioneering effort to advance a Culture of Health in which everyone in our diverse society leads healthier lives now and for generations to come. To put the Culture of Health vision into action, RAND Health supported development of an action framework and measurement strategy. This report summarizes the stakeholder engagement efforts RAND used to inform this work."

CBITS was developed for use by school-based mental health professionals for any student with symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma. SSET was adapted from CBITS for use by any school personnel with the time and interest to work with students affected by trauma. This toolkit assists social workers, school-based mental health professionals, and school personnel in adapting these interventions for use with youth who are in foster care.

This report describes a health and human services needs assessment of Prince George's County, Maryland. Findings from this report can inform Prince George's County's pursuit of a Health in All Policies approach to policymaking.

Hurricane Maria magnified Puerto Rico's fragile system for delivering social, behavioral, and environmental health services, which were evidenced by chronic disease burdens, demographic transitions, and unmet health needs. The recovery plan outlines action strategies for building a robust health infrastructure, strengthening the health care workforce, expanding social service capacity, and investing in healthy communities.

With evolving demographics and a changing health system landscape, Prince George's County is considering its future policy approaches and resource allocations related to health and well-being. This report describes a health and human services needs assessment of the county. Recommendations are offered related to (1) creating a Health in All Policies system, (2) aligning investments, and (3) implementing new measurement and data systems.

The RAND Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation formed a partnership to develop a modeling framework that can be used to estimate the net benefits of a resilience project. We call the framework the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model (RDVM). This report discusses the motivation for the RDVM, describes how we developed it, and offers a set of case studies to demonstrate how the RDVM can be applied across diverse settings.

This report is the last of a six-volume series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. It analyzes U.S. strengths and weaknesses, and suggests adaptations for this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. The report offers three alternative strategic concepts and evaluates their underlying assumptions, costs, risks, and constraints.

The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of military family readiness and its sources. This report describes the theoretical model that informed the study design, the content of the baseline assessment, the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures, and the baseline sample of military families.

This report guides the District of Columbia Healthy Communities Collaborative's decisions about where and how to allocate resources and implement appropriate health interventions for the population it serves. The community health needs assessment described in this report includes quantitative analysis of existing demographic, health status, and hospital service use data for the District of Columbia, as well as analysis of current stakeholder perspectives, health policy, and investment priorities.

This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed capabilities-based planning by local military and civilian authorities and results from interviews with such planners at five selected sites. Together, these form the basis for a planning support tool, for which the framework is described in this report.

Describes the health status of the more than 100,000 children residing in Washington, D.C., and their use of health services. The authors examine differences in health status and health care use within the city, environmental characteristics affecting health, and community resident and provider perspectives. The goal of the study is to lay a factual foundation for advocacy and policy decisions related to children's health in the District.