RAND Report- In 2008, the Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier selected education, health, and poverty as priority areas for its investments in children and families, and it asked the RAND Corporation to assist the community in identifying priority strategies within these three focus areas. RAND researchers developed a unique framework based on the intersection of needs, assets, and best practices. Applying this framework to the Shreveport-Bossier community, they identified health care providers, public school teachers, and Barksdale Air Force Base as strong assets that can help the community address three high-need areas: infant health, child maltreatment, and educational attainment. The "Needs-Assets-Best Practices” framework developed to assist the Shreveport-Bossier community can also be applied in many other settings.
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