Reinstitute Inc

Programs: Reducing chronic homelessness: following the success of the rapid results housing boot camps in 2013, the rapid results institute in march 2014 helped support the launch of a multi-year, multi-agency federal effort to help 25 communities across the united states end veteran homelessness by december 2015. The 25 cities initiative is a key federal strategy sponsored by the u. S. Department of veterans affairs, the u. S. Department of housing and urban development, and the u. S. Interagency council on homelessness. With support from the rapid results institute and our technical assistance partners, atlas research and community solutions, leaders and teams from each community optimize access to existing housing opportunities, in turn accelerating the number of permanent housing placements each month for veterans experiencing homelessness and individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. This optimized access supports community teams in setting aggressive 100-day rapid results goals and in using these goals to stimulate innovation and increase collaboration. The 25 cities initiative was officially launched on march 27th and 28th, 2014 when leadership teams from each of the 25 cities convened in washington, d. C. Over 250 people attended the event and worked rigorously to lay the groundwork for local 100-day projects in each of the 25 cities. In may and june of 2014, teams launched a local community design workshop to design/strengthen their coordinated assessment and housing placement (cahp) system, as well as set 100-day goals around building and testing that system. They are now refining their coordinated systems and continuing to accelerate their housing placement needs to reach the december 2015 goal. Separately, we supported similar 100-day efforts to optimize resource allocation in new haven and a few other communities around the country.

integrated social and health care: the organization began a partnership in late 2013 with nesta, the premier social innovation foundation in the uk, to help accelerate the pace of integrating social and health care for the elderly and at-risk populations. 2014 saw the beginning of the actual work. At the core of the partnership was the rapid results 100-day challenge where multiple stakeholders committed themselves to find creative ways to reduce the pressure on acute care hospital services without compromising the quality or care to individuals. The organization is working in three areas in the uk and several of those areas in essex country, have already documented significant decreases in unplanned hospital admissions among the at-risk populations measured against the same time period in the previous year. The institute is also supporting some essex localities to design and implement a locality-based, patient-centered model for integrated care delivery. The program will continue to be refined in essex in 2015 with the intent of scaling out to other localities in england in 2016 and beyond.

child nutrition: the organization brought work to completion on a project in nepal. In partnership with the world bank and the government of nepal, the organizations staff trained 95 local nepali coaches in the spring of 2014. In april and may of 2014, these newly trained coaches began launching rapid results nutrition initiatives in their own communities. This project is one of a few in the world to use a community-driven approach to nutrition-related issues and is the first of its kind in the long history of collaboration between the world bank and the rapid results institute. It is original because for the first time, the rapid results approach is being used as the core method for design and delivery of a large scale five-year project from its inception, rather than being brought in to connect the last mile in a project that may have met challenges in implementation.