Rainbow Research has an extensive portfolio of projects involving community-based programs and policy initiatives that focus on strengthening individual, family, and environmental health.
Our recent evaluation projects include initiatives centered on reducing health disparities and improving the social /environmental determinants of health; reducing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among targeted populations (youth, African Americans, American Indians, Southeast Asians); increasing the dietary and physical health of children and families; promoting access to healthy food; and health education and peer-support.
Evaluation of Raising Healthy Kids
Client: YMCA Canada and Search
Institute 2009–2010
Evaluation of “Let’s Talk About It”
and “Man-to-Man”
Client: American Cancer Society 2008–2010
Evaluation of the Growing Up Healthy:
Kids and Communities Initiative
Client: Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Minnesota Foundation 2007–present
Evaluation of the Arthritis Foundation’s
Self-Help Program Marketing
Client: The Arthritis Foundation 2006–2009
Evaluation of Communities on the Move
Client: Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Minnesota, Center for Prevention 2006–2008
Evaluation of the Culturally Tailored
Tobacco Cessation Programs
Client: ClearWay Minnesota 2004–2009
Informing WorkSHIFTS
Client: Tobacco Law Center,
William Mitchell College of Law, Minnesota 2007
Evaluation
of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Prevention
Projects 2002–2007
• Learning To Live Again Program
• Hmong Change Direction Program
• Southeast Asian Prevention
Intervention Network Program
Strengthening Southeast Asian Parents
and Families
Client: Association for the
Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota 2005-2006
Overall Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity
Building of Minnesota’s Eliminating Health
Disparities Initiative
Client: Minnesota Department
of Health, Office of Multicultural and Minority
Health 2002–2008
Feasibility Study
Client: Carver County Public
Health Department, Minnesota 2005
Needs and Capacity Assessment
Client: Indigenous Peoples Task Force
(IPTF), Minnesota 2004–2007