• Prior Projects, United States
• Prior Projects, International
• Overview Current CHS Projects
• Current Project Profiles

Bilingual Education: Training for All Teachers
Client: United States Department of Education (Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages)
The U.S. Department of Education in October 2001 awarded a five-year grant to CHS to work in partnership with McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College). The project was designed to serve as a resource to McDaniel to develop and implement a high quality bilingual education/ESL teacher training program. Through the project, CHS/McDaniel provided various professional development opportunities to public school teachers and administrators, including workshops, graduate courses in bilingual education, field experiences, and an intensive summer training institute.

Haitian American Training Institute
Client: U.S. Department of Education
CHS provided English-as-a-Second-Language training for Haitian refugee entrants into the U.S. in New York City and in the Del-Mar area of Maryland and Delaware.

Migrant EvenStart
Client: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education
CHS administered from 1994 to 2004, the adult education component of Migrant EvenStart in southeastern Pennsylvania, a project designed to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers who are parents of participating children gain academic and life skills.

National Institute for Drug Programs (NIDP)
Client: Office of Economic Opportunity and National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIDP was established by CHS in 1971 to provide education and training for former drug addicts to obtain management positions in drug abuse treatment service.

Rapid Expansion of Nutritional Recuperation Services for Malnourished Children in Nigerien Facilities
Client: Original grant from the American Jewish World Services
Subsequently funded by USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance with funding from UNICEF

As climate conditions in Niger created a “near famine” CHS undertook a pediatric malnutrition program building on work that had been completed by CHS’s for-profit affiliate, University Research Co., LLC. Late in fiscal year 2005, CHS received a grant from the American Jewish World Services to initiate the program which builds on and expands work funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under an earlier project. In the spring of 2006 the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) awarded URC’s Center for Human Services (CHS) a 12-month program grant. Under this project, CHS leveraged its established countrywide Pediatric Hospital Improvement (PHI) Collaborative, run as part of the Quality Assurance Project, to rapidly expand nutritional recuperation services for acutely malnourished children in 15 district hospitals while building local capacity for improved behavior change communication, screening, referral, and recuperation at global district levels.

Quality Assurance Project I & II
Client: U.S. Agency for International Development

Formerly operating under CHS, the large-scale Quality Assurance Project (QAP) I & II provided comprehensive technical expertise in the design, management, and implementation of quality assurance interventions to improve the delivery of child and maternal health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, and infectious disease services in over 20 developing and middle-income countries. Now operating under URC, the large-scale Quality Assurance Project (QAP) provides comprehensive technical expertise in the design, management, and implementation of quality assurance interventions to improve the delivery of child and maternal health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, and infectious disease services in developing and middle-income countries.

QAP I was a five-year project funded by USAID to provide international leadership in the area of quality assurance (QA) and continuous quality improvement in health care and institutionalize quality assurance systems in USAID-supported health programs. QAP I carried out activities in 20 countries, providing technical assistance and training in standards development, quality assessment and monitoring, problem solving, and quality improvement. The project supported the development of national or regional QA programs in Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Jordan, Niger, and Nigeria and implemented smaller scale technical assistance efforts in Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Malawi, Paraguay, the Philippines, Uganda, and other developing countries. The project also sponsored several central level activities to support the development of country programs, including operations research to develop and refine QA methods for use in developing countries and the design of standardized training courses that could be easily adapted to country-specific needs. QAP I also actively disseminated project results and methods to the international health community through newsletters, brief reports, and technical monographs.

Implemented from 1990 to 1995, QAP I was followed by the Quality Assurance Project II. Under QAP II, URC's Center for Human Services continued to serve as a global leader in the advocacy, development, and promotion of cost-effective methods to strengthen healthcare services and systems in developing and middle-income countries. QAP II improved the quality of health, population, and nutrition services through technical support to service delivery institutions, Ministries of Health, USAID missions, and cooperating agencies. The project improved the quality and efficiency of healthcare with innovative, practical approaches carried out primarily by ordinary healthcare providers. Strategy focused on basic services selected for their potential health impact and low cost. The mission of QAP II was to provide the technical assistance to build local capacity for establishing standards of care, assessing the quality of services, and undertaking actions to strengthen healthcare programs and systems.

Primary Health Care Operations Research Project (PRICOR I & II)
U.S. Agency for International Development

Under PRICOR I (1981-1986) and II (1986-1991), CHS conducted a multi-country research effort to help developing countries strengthen delivery of primary health care services through applied research. CHS pioneered development of a practical, systematic approach to operations research on critical issues facing primary health care services in developing countries, including use of community health workers, organizing the community, community financing of primary health services , and community-based commodity distribution.

Kazakhstan TB Project
Project HOPE
From 2000-2001, Technical assistance and guidelines for Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course Strategy (DOTS) training programs.

Strategic and Policy Assistance to the Agency for Accreditation and QA/Republic of Srpska
Client: The World Bank
From 2000-2001, with prime contractor Epsilon Research, Developing and Consulting, Ltd., CHS developed quality improvement and regulatory strategies to the Agency for Accreditation and Quality of the Ministry of Health.

Uzbekistan Health
Client: The World Bank
Under this contract which ran for one year from 2000 to 2001, CHS worked in partnership with prime contractor Maxwell Stamp, Inc. to develop of plans to rationalize health services delivery in existing health facility networks.

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