Joie Acosta
Biographic Data
| ID | 5418767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joie Acosta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joie |
| FAMILY NAME | Acosta |
| SIGNATURE | ACOSTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7279-6915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scaling Up Implementation Support for Violence Prevention and Resilience Promotion in the Air Force
Closing the gap between research and practice requires that organizations can consistently incorporate new ideas and best practices. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Integrated Resilience Directorate is leading a coordinated effort to increase the adoption of evidence-based violence prevention and resilience promotion programs across the entire Department. To support this effort, DAF is using Getting To Outcomes (GTO), an evidence-based impl…
Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Healthy Middle School Environments
Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands
This report provides analysis to help the U.S. Virgin Islands accelerate its recovery from 2017's Hurricanes Irma and Maria by identifying recovery goals, recovery accomplishments, and challenges. The authors focused on crosscutting capacities needed for implementation, infrastructure, and the economy and public services and provide 76 recommendations to enhance recovery efforts, including steps to support implementation.
Short-Term Solutions to a Long-Term Challenge
In the immediate aftermath of disaster, governments usually act quickly to reduce risk and to recover their communities' socio-economic functioning. Policy makers in these situations need-but may not have the capacity or time for-substantial analysis and public debate about how to balance short- and long-term societal needs. Inadequate attention to this challenge may result in a deepening of the inequities that increase vulnerability to disaster …
Evaluation of a Whole-School Change Intervention
With Small Power, Comes Great Responsibility
A Program for Local Health Departments to Adapt and Implement Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Programs
The goal of this project was to enhance the capacity of local health departments to translate and implement evidence-based programs in emergency preparedness by using the Getting To Outcomes approach. Our evaluation determined that local health department staff reported improved capacities. A “Getting To Outcomes Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness” guidebook was produced and is available online
Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
Evaluating efforts to prevent violent extremism can be challenging. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements
Towards More Nuanced Classification of NGOs and Their Services to Improve Integrated Planning across Disaster Phases
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are being integrated into U.S. strategies to expand the services that are available during health security threats like disasters. Identifying better ways to classify NGOs and their services could optimize disaster planning. We surveyed NGOs about the types of services they provided during different disaster phases. Survey responses were used to categorize NGO services as core -critical to fulfilling their org…
Road to Resilience
This infographic illustrates how communities can become more resilient as they plan ahead for potential disasters.
Intervening with Practitioners to Improve the Quality of Prevention
An Examination of Measures Related to Children’s Exposure to Violence for Use by Both Practitioners and Researchers
Millions of children each year are exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities as both witnesses and victims. As a result, evidence-based programs for children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic events (CEV-EBPs) have been widely disseminated but rarely evaluated in their real-world applications. One crucial aspect of conducting such evaluations is finding appropriate measures that can be of use both to the practi…
Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets‐Getting to Outcomes Intervention
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science. Building a community practitioner's prevention capacity—the knowledge and skills needed to conduct critical prevention practices—could improve the quality of prevention and its outcomes. The purpose of this article is to: (1) describe how an intervention called Assets‐Getting To Outcomes (AGTO) was used to establish the key functions of the ISF a…
Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity
Lessons Learned from Disaster Case Management in Louisiana
Louisiana implemented a disaster case management pilot program five years after the 2005 hurricanes. Challenges in client identification, interagency communication, and invoice approval led to delays; half the expected number of cases were opened.
Understanding Community Resilience in the Context of National Health Security
Health working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers ’ latest findings and to solicit informal peer review. They have been approved for circulation by RAND Health but have not been formally edited or peer reviewed. Unless otherwise indicated, working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author, provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND’s publications do not necessarily re…
Build the Capacity of Communities to Address Crime
Evaluation of a Whole-School Change Intervention
Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets‐Getting to Outcomes Intervention
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science. Building a community practitioner's prevention capacity—the knowledge and skills needed to conduct critical prevention practices—could improve the quality of prevention and its outcomes. The purpose of this article is to: (1) describe how an intervention called Assets‐Getting To Outcomes (AGTO) was used to establish the key functions of the ISF a…
Build the Capacity of Communities to Address Crime
Build the Capacity of Communities to Address Crime
Lessons Learned from Disaster Case Management in Louisiana
Louisiana implemented a disaster case management pilot program five years after the 2005 hurricanes. Challenges in client identification, interagency communication, and invoice approval led to delays; half the expected number of cases were opened.
Understanding Community Resilience in the Context of National Health Security
Health working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers ’ latest findings and to solicit informal peer review. They have been approved for circulation by RAND Health but have not been formally edited or peer reviewed. Unless otherwise indicated, working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author, provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND’s publications do not necessarily re…
Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Building Community Resilience to Disasters
Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity
An Examination of Measures Related to Children’s Exposure to Violence for Use by Both Practitioners and Researchers
Millions of children each year are exposed to violence in their homes, schools, and communities as both witnesses and victims. As a result, evidence-based programs for children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic events (CEV-EBPs) have been widely disseminated but rarely evaluated in their real-world applications. One crucial aspect of conducting such evaluations is finding appropriate measures that can be of use both to the practi…
Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets‐Getting to Outcomes Intervention
Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science. Building a community practitioner's prevention capacity—the knowledge and skills needed to conduct critical prevention practices—could improve the quality of prevention and its outcomes. The purpose of this article is to: (1) describe how an intervention called Assets‐Getting To Outcomes (AGTO) was used to establish the key functions of the ISF a…
Road to Resilience
This infographic illustrates how communities can become more resilient as they plan ahead for potential disasters.
Intervening with Practitioners to Improve the Quality of Prevention
Rand Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism
Evaluating efforts to prevent violent extremism can be challenging. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements
Towards More Nuanced Classification of NGOs and Their Services to Improve Integrated Planning across Disaster Phases
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are being integrated into U.S. strategies to expand the services that are available during health security threats like disasters. Identifying better ways to classify NGOs and their services could optimize disaster planning. We surveyed NGOs about the types of services they provided during different disaster phases. Survey responses were used to categorize NGO services as core -critical to fulfilling their org…
A Program for Local Health Departments to Adapt and Implement Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Programs
The goal of this project was to enhance the capacity of local health departments to translate and implement evidence-based programs in emergency preparedness by using the Getting To Outcomes approach. Our evaluation determined that local health department staff reported improved capacities. A “Getting To Outcomes Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness” guidebook was produced and is available online
Evaluation of a Whole-School Change Intervention
With Small Power, Comes Great Responsibility
Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands
This report provides analysis to help the U.S. Virgin Islands accelerate its recovery from 2017's Hurricanes Irma and Maria by identifying recovery goals, recovery accomplishments, and challenges. The authors focused on crosscutting capacities needed for implementation, infrastructure, and the economy and public services and provide 76 recommendations to enhance recovery efforts, including steps to support implementation.
Short-Term Solutions to a Long-Term Challenge
In the immediate aftermath of disaster, governments usually act quickly to reduce risk and to recover their communities' socio-economic functioning. Policy makers in these situations need-but may not have the capacity or time for-substantial analysis and public debate about how to balance short- and long-term societal needs. Inadequate attention to this challenge may result in a deepening of the inequities that increase vulnerability to disaster …
Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Healthy Middle School Environments
Scaling Up Implementation Support for Violence Prevention and Resilience Promotion in the Air Force
Closing the gap between research and practice requires that organizations can consistently incorporate new ideas and best practices. The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Integrated Resilience Directorate is leading a coordinated effort to increase the adoption of evidence-based violence prevention and resilience promotion programs across the entire Department. To support this effort, DAF is using Getting To Outcomes (GTO), an evidence-based impl…
Political science (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works) · Medical emergency (5 works) · Nursing (5 works)