Harold P Freeman Patient Navigation Institute

HistoryNDRI-USA, Inc. has been in existence as an affiliate of National Development Research Institutes, Inc., a not-for-profit social and behavioral science research and training organization with an over 40 year history of public health service.SpecialtiesNDRI-USA's mission is to build relationships and bridge the gap between research and practice in the public health arena to ensure the advancement of state-of-the-art techniques, evidence- based and promising practices, and supports for non-physician health and human services providers and other practitioners. This is accomplished by fostering relationships at the federal, state, local, international, philanthropic and private sector levels, with the goal of reducing health and social disparities by creating sustainable change through curriculum development, learning interventions targeted to health and human services providers, training-of-trainers, technical assistance and capacity building, as well as needs assessment, research and evaluation. NDRI-USA is widely considered as a leader on public health issues, including: Substance Abuse Healthcare Reform Viral Hepatitis and other STIs Cultural Competence Mental Health HIV/AIDS Criminal Justice problem solving Courts Curriculum Development Learning Interventions targeted to Health and Human Services providers Training-of-trainers Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Needs Assessment Research and Evaluation

Young Audiences Arts for Learning, founded in 1952, is the nation's leading source of arts-in-education services. Our mission and goal is to help make the arts an essential part of young people's education. We advance the artistic and educational development of children and youth by bringing them together with professional artists of all disciplines to learn, create and participate in the arts. This year, our network of 30 affiliates and 4, 600 artists reached 7 million children in nearly 7, 000 schools with 16, 300 performance demonstrations, 67, 000 workshops and 3, 240 teacher services. To see a brief video example of what happens when Young Audiences Arts for Learning teaching artists work with kids, click the Media Stream button under the photo. To see another, click again.