Job Opportunities Task Force
$30,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the continuation of a comparative study of Baltimore’s workforce development system and workforce development systems in other cities with similar demographics. Components of the study include a review of the cities’ welfare-to-work systems; one-stop centers for adults who are not on welfare, youth programs, local community colleges’ curricula, public schools’ vocational and dropout prevention programs, literacy programs, and public housing workforce initiatives.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$43,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Challenge grant toward the salary of the program director of the Transitional Jobs Consortium, a newly created transitional employment program for ex-offenders in Baltimore City. The purpose of the program is to provide services that will help stabilize ex-offenders as they reenter the community.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
$12,750 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the completion of a study on Medicaid managed care and family planning in Baltimore City. The research addresses two issues: the path women take as they move from traditional Medicaid coverage to enrollment in managed care organizations; and how mandated managed care affects the providers of reproductive health services to the Medicaid population.
Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
$5,000 / 2002 / Education
For the establishment of The Abell Foundation Award in Urban Policy. The award will be given to a student who authors the most outstanding urban policy paper, based on original research, offering recommendations, remedies or strategies on an issue facing Baltimore City.
Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
$48,500 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Toward staffing costs of a senior research analyst to manage and staff the Evaluation and Accountability Committee of the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board. As part of the project, the analyst will provide recommendations for improving Baltimore’s Workforce Development System by creating an “evaluation landscape map” of research being conducted. The purpose of this effort is to determine the gaps in data collection and analyses. With partnering agencies and other Workforce Investment Board members, the analyst will create performance measures of Baltimore’s workforce development system for validation and implementation by the Workforce Investment Board.