Our Projects

ETR serves as the program evaluation agency for the San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) Young Men’s Health Project, which pilots, implements, and evaluates programming for young men of color who have sex with men (YMSM). The goal of the SFUSD’s Young Men’s Health Project – funded by the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health – is to improve the health and safety of young men, increase student participation in comprehensive sexual health education, increase students’ access to and utilization of community based sexual health services, and decrease HIV/STD infections among young men. 

The study aimed to understand the experiences and backgrounds of traditionally underrepresented students taking computer science classes in order to inform strategies to increase support and help students overcome barriers to persisting in CS.

ETR helped to bridge the “digital career divide” for youth in rural communities through a community- and school-based program offering technology career pathways for girls and boys from grades 5 through 12. In addition to youth programming, TEC built the capacity of the families of the youth and the community to create a supportive network that encouraged youth to pursue technology interests and careers.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District funds ETR to provide consulting, training, and evaluation services to the District’s Office of Educational Equity (OEE). The District is currently enhancing its capacity to eliminate, address, and prevent sexual and gender-based harassment. For this three year project, ETR is (1)providing expert consultation on improving district policies and procedures, (2) designing and implementing District-wide staff trainings, (3) evaluating the implementation of reforms and student outcomes, and (4) developing a unique online complaint management system.

TECC supports educators and advocates in California and across the nation working to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco in their communities, by producing and distributing low-cost educational material covering tobacco use prevention, secondhand smoke exposure, and smoking cessation. Currently TECC offers over 550 current, high-quality, affordable products in a variety of formats for diverse audiences including: African American, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Labor, LGBT, Russian, teens and young adults, health educators and community advocates. TECC materials are reviewed for cultural, educational, and language needs of various populations and selected for the catalog based on recommendations by expert material review committees. 

As part of this project funded by the California Office of Maternal and Child Health, ETR developed the Continuous Program Improvement (CPI) Tool Kit, which provided a framework for TPP agencies to use a systematic process and standardized tools for assessing selected aspects of their programs, with the goal of identifying and making program improvements. 

TransCONNECT is a digital training and social franchising program that offers medical providers capacity and competence building in caring for transgender and non-binary patients, with a focus of youth 16-25 years of age. The program offers education on transgender and non-binary gender identities, cultural humility, trans & non-binary experiences in healthcare settings, HIV care and prevention, and best practices when working with marginalized identities. This digital training targets medical and HIV care providers and the transgender, non-binary and gender expansive community. TransCONNECT was designed using a youth-centered health design process, where the voice of the trans community and providers who work in trans healthcare and specialize in HIV care and prevention are present. TransCONNECT is aimed at uniting marginalized patients and inclusive providers; continually working towards an overarching goal of non-stigmatized care.

Developed in collaboration with the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Department of Education, this supplemental curriculum lesson was designed to address the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in classrooms implementing the Reducing the Risk evidence-based intervention, while maintaining fidelity to the program.

ETR is developing an online service documentation system for the Wellness Initiative, which operates school-based health centers in twenty public high schools in San Francisco. Based on a two year process of talking to service providers, the WISH system supports the accurate documentation of services provided at the individual student level. WISH also includes innovative functionalities that support service coordination and prioritization. WISH also creates opportunities for evaluation research that assesses the impact of services on key indicators of academic performance using propensity score matching approaches to outcome analysis.