Redesigning Federal Programs Around Key Life Experiences: Having a Child & Early Childhood

Investigating Links Between Opioids & Jail

Two PPL team members sit around a table in the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections with three incarcerated individuals. One person takes notes as they talk to each other.

0 Interviews with justice-involved people 0 Interviews with community-based practitioners Project Background Louisville’s jail facilities had a capacity of nearly 1,800 people, but in 2015 they were over capacity by nearly 25% — a surge driven by arrests related to the opioid epidemic. Because of crowding, people arrested for nonviolent offenses were being housed with […]

Improving Beneficiaries’ Medicare Understanding

A person writes a note on a print-out depicting an organization's different communication channels.

Project Background In 2010, the firms of PPL founders David Gibson, Chelsea Mauldin, and the late Sylvia Harris led a human-centered evaluation of Medicare communications. Their preliminary goal was to identify ways to improve Medicare beneficiaries’ engagement and informed decision-making during the enrollment process, with a special focus on how to help beneficiaries compare and […]

Family Pathways to Care

A presentation about the five commitments framework for feedback collection is pulled up on a laptop.

Project Background Family Pathways to Care is a multi-year collaboration between the Public Policy Lab, the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). Funding was provided by a Collaborative Innovations Initiative grant awarded to ACS by the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYCO).  ACS’ Division of Prevention […]

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