Vanessa Harbin Sacks

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

@CharDreizen Amazon’s website says their insulated paper bags “designed with paper insulation and foil” are recyclable in most places - any idea about DC?

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Do you have a program, product, or idea for advancing equitable adolescent sexual and reproductive health? If yes, check out the Breakthrough Accelerator to see if your team is eligible to apply for 100K in funding, skill-building opportunities, and more! https://t.co/R08QiumxI8

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

If you love data and care about supporting the behavioral health of students in DC, please check out this job opening at the DC Department of Behavioral Health in the Prevention and Early Intervention Division!
https://t.co/eLoFTANwHR

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Mavis Sanders & Kehinde Akande share takeaways from Child Trends’ webinar on building protective communities for Black children & families. There's an urgent need to increase investments in Black communities, shift from deficit to strengths-based framewks. https://t.co/iuOx9g04MY

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

If you care about the behavioral health of students in DC, are passionate about using data for continuous improvement, check out the Continuous Quality Manager position in the DC Dept of Behavioral Health! https://t.co/FCXPtPaeaA

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we want you to know that we see you just as you are:

Made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.

We'll never stop working to create a world where you won't have to be brave just to be yourself.

[OSSE @OSSEDC]

Parents/caregivers of DC students, make your voices heard! Complete the Strengthening School Behavioral Health Survey during the months of February and March. Available in Spanish (Español) and Amharic (አማርኛ) #StrengthenSBHinDC 👉 https://t.co/ADc5ierkz6

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

If you're a caregiver of a DC student, here is a chance to share your thoughts and experiences with school behavioral health!

[Rachel Sadlon @rachel_sadlon]

For parents, guardians and caregivers of DC students - please weigh in!

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Contribute to @ChildTrends’ work on promoting the well-being of Indigenous families as a Research Scientist or Analyst for Indigenous Populations. Help us build partnerships, conduct research, and identify relevant policy & practice solutions. https://t.co/KrfBlbTEwB

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Child Trends’ new blog highlights its 10 most viewed products of 2022, including research on child welfare, Black children and families, LGBTQ+ youth, and more. Check it out! https://t.co/Ds1hxZYhmy

[Dr. Deana Around Him @aroundhim_d]

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Any day is a good day to celebrate Indigenous Peoples. However, if you have limited knowledge of the amazing and diverse first Peoples of the lands we now call the U.S., today is a great day to start learning more. https://t.co/SolCzMhM9X

[Dr Brandon Stratford @Stratford_B]

It’s a new school year. I’m working on a list of best practice tools for #schoolmentalhealth. Please drop your favorite/go-to resource below. I’m looking for general implementation resources, not program-specific guides. Thanks! @SMARTCtr @NCSMHtweets @MHTTCNetwork @nctsn @CHHCS

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

@ChildTrends’ new brief finds that over 25% of sexually active female students have not received sexual & reproductive health services (SRH) in the past year. School-based health centers that provide SRH services can increase access to vital healthcare. https://t.co/1ionQkFGye

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

@Aimencreates They don’t have to be in DC for the summer, but do have to be a student at a DC school

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

If you know of a DC high school student interested in behavioral health and research, one of my project teams is hiring an intern for this summer. Applications due June 17 https://t.co/DQEXW27zCQ

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Yes! I'm loving this message. Moving away from myopic focus on accountability and toward learning. And expanding the definition of "evidence" - whose data counts? #EERS22

[Isaac Castillo @isaac_outcomes]

.@kfitzsimmons at #EERS22: Need to move #evaluation away from compliance and accountability to learning and actionability. #evaluation needs to move away from compulsory and toward collaboration.
It needs to move away from funder-specific to practitioner-centric.

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

Check out the Evidence Gap Map to explore gaps and strengths in what has been studied: https://t.co/4tRrmyUrKQ

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

This has been one of my favorite projects to work on over the past two years. Some key findings: Programs serving opportunity youth are using a wide range of practices, including important youth development approaches. Studies are not yet widely tracking wellbeing outcomes. 🧵

[Child Trends @ChildTrends]

Over 4 million young people aged 16-24 are neither employed nor in school. @HHS_ASPE's Reconnecting Youth project, developed w/ @MDRC_News & Child Trends, offers a compendium of programs serving opportunity youth & an evidence map about program practices. https://t.co/0ygQT30U5v

[Vanessa Harbin Sacks @vhsacks]

There are several practices that currently operating programs reported are common, but don't show up in evaluations. Most striking: almost all programs say they use racial equity practices, but almost no evaluation studies describe programs as having these practices.