As Mohammad Khan sat at his computer this summer, he worked on a white paper for the Boston-based urban planning group The Collaborative. Khan was an O’Neill Policy Studies major at the time, interning for the group and tasked with examining alternate care facilities that could be set up within 48 hours of an outbreak…. Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
Paving the way for future generations
Ingrid Ortega wasn’t sure what her first semester at IUPUI would hold. While many freshmen share similar feelings of stress, this Public Safety Management major had an extra layer of anxiety. Ortega is the first in her family to attend college. “College isn’t easy for anyone, but I wish people understood how scary it can… Read more »
O’Neill student uses grant to support early voters
Polls in Indiana are open on November 3, 2020, Election Day, from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. To find Election Day polling sites in your area, visit indianavoters.org. As soon as early voting opened in Marion County, a line began to snake around the City-County Building in downtown Indianapolis. Despite having more than 650,000… Read more »
New analysis evaluates mobile crisis teams addressing overdose epidemic in rural Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS – Addressing the overdose epidemic still plaguing Indiana requires a holistic approach from teams that combine different disciplines. New analysis from the Center for Health and Justice Research (CHJR) at the IU Public Policy Institute looks at what challenges these teams face, what can help them be successful, and best practice recommendations that… Read more »
Don’t have a data partner? You need to get one … now.
It’s a data-driven world and finding a partner to help in the process is critical to a nonprofit’s future, its funders, and—most importantly—to those whom the organization serves. Most nonprofits want and need to be able to show promising results to justify their existing efforts and their plans for future expansion. At the same time,… Read more »