Areas of Expertise

Health

• Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
• Quality of Care Measure Development
• Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
• Program and Process Evaluations
• Substance Abuse
• Mental Health Policy
• Auditing of Regulatory Compliance
• Medical Review
• Identifying and Recruiting Medical Experts
• Prescription Drug Programs
• Disease Control and Prevention Programs
• Performance Improvement Measures
• Hospital/Plan Accreditation

Education

• Service Obligation Systems
• Early Childhood Development
• Charter School
• Academic Achievement
• Performance Measurement Design
• Policy (e.g., No Child Left Behind)

Housing

• Family Self-Sufficiency
• Housing Development Financing
• Lead Abatement
• Policy (e.g., HOPE VI)
• Public Housing Initiatives
• Section 8 Vouchers

Transportation

• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Economic Impacts

Social Services

• Out-of-school Program Assessments
• Healthy Marriage Initiatives
• Fatherhood/Paternal Involvement
• Caseload Forecasting
• Child Support Enforcement
• Foster Care and Adoption
• Privatization
• Welfare Reform and Welfare-to-Work

Workforce Development

• Occupational and Skill Set Forecasting
• Policy (e.g., Workforce Investment Act, Youth Opportunity)
• Employee and Customer Retention
• Minimum Wage and Living Wage
• Wage Determination

Economic Development

• Impact Fees
• Regulatory Analysis
• State and Local Statistical Report Cards

Criminal Justice

• Economic and Social Costs of Imprisonment
• Effectiveness of Court Innovations
• Drug Testing Regimes & Sanctions
• Drug Abuse Treatment Effectiveness
• GIS Analysis of Offending and Victimization Patterns
• Re-entry and Reintegration of Returning Prisoners