Boys and Girls Club of Columbia Project

In 2012, the citizens of Boone County created a Children's Services Fund for the purpose of providing services to protect and improve the lives of children, youth, and families in Boone County. As part of that mission, the Boone County Children's Services Board (BCCSB) strategically invests programs that deliver effective and quality services for children and families in need including The Boys and Girls Club of Columbia.

The Missouri Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Evaluation Enters 11th Year

The Missouri Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) contracts IPP to serve as external evaluators for the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program (SRAE). Missouri’s PREP and SRAE programs are part of a national initiative to reduce teenage pregnancy rates using evidence-based programs.

New Projects in Community and Health

The MU Institute of Public Policy has contracted for several new projects recently in the policy areas of health and community. New health projects include Research on Paid Leave in Missouri, Evaluating the Impact of Medicaid Expansion in Missouri, and An Innovative Model to Increase Primary Care Physicians for Rural and Underserved Missouri: Supplemental Funding. These projects seek to evaluate and improve access to paid leave, Medicaid, and healthcare for rural and underserved Missourians.

Evaluating the Impact of Medicaid Expansion in Missouri

This project has three specific goals:  1) To use Medicaid enrollment data to characterize and compare Missouri’s Medicaid enrollee population during three distinct time periods (before COVID-19, during COVID-19, the first two years of Medicaid expansion), with a particular emphasis on the population of adults ages 19 – 64; 2) to use the Medicaid provider data to characterize and compare Missouri’s Medicaid-serving health care providers during the three distinct time periods; and, 3) using results from goals 1 and 2, evaluate the geographical overlap between new Medicaid ex

MFH Paid Sick Leave

This project examines paid leave in Missouri using publicly available data and also estimates the costs and benefits of a range of paid sick leave options for the state with a US Dept of Labor microsimulation that was released in March 2020.  The project team is Emily Johnson (IPP Associate Director), Rachel Dicke (Ph.D. candidate in the Truman School), and Adrienne Ohler (Associate Research Professor, MU School of Medicine).  The opportunity came to IPP because of past work conducted by Emily Johnson for United Women’s Empowerment (United WE). 

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