For more information on dHA please do not hesitate to contact the firm's principal partner, Kristin duBay Horton.

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From our clients:

“dHA understands the mechanics of community based research and efficiently and effectively go about getting information from consumers of services, key informants, and other research reports.”

“Your work is professional, on
time, and always comprehensive. You have a very nice way of working with all types of constituents, from public sector employees to consumers. You explain topics in a way all can understand.”

“You are an innovator and initiator. You have made significant contributions to the fight against AIDS by developing collaborative models that never scrimp on process or content, truly using each to enhance the other.”

“We selected dHA because they were one of the most culturally competent research consultants available to us. They worked tirelessly to provide us with appropriate tools for our evaluation and met all deliverables under deadline.”

Ms. duBay Horton, ten part-time consultants and research assistants have provided a wide range of services and activities including:

• Providing evaluation expertise to a city wide behavioral change program around diabetes in collaboration with city government, local insurers, and American Diabetes Association.
  
• Aiding a local health department in developing messages around perinatal depression for a statewide social marketing effort.


• Evaluating a parenting program aimed at reducing adolescent alcohol and tobacco use through improvement of parent/child communication and aiding parents at developing clear families rules on drug and alcohol use.


• Training diverse groups of community based providers on "Evaluating for Program Survival".


• Evaluating numerous SAMHSA funded drug free communities program.
  
• Assessing the services needed for families suffering a fetal or infant loss in CT and developing program models to meet those needs.
  
• Assessing the barriers to breastfeeding initiation and maintenance among African American mothers in CT.
  
• Researching the most effective means of delivering HIV prevention messages (social marketing) to at risk youth in collaboration with Yale's Ctr for Interdisc. Res. on AIDS and providers working with youth in Bridgeport and New Haven.


• Facilitating and evaluating a planning process to plan for the elimination of childhood lead poisoning in CT by 2010.
  
• Facilitating and formatively evaluating a process to engage experts in public health and the environment to assess existing systems that collect data on these topics and to develop a system to link this data.
  
• Training local health departments to integrate environmental and policy interventions into Cardiovascular Health Promotion activities.
  
• Evaluating knowledge, attitudes, and social supports for HIV prevention and substance abuse prevention among Latino youth in Stamford area.
  
• Performing an assessment of the needs of PLWH who know that they are HIV positive but are not currently receiving medical care for the Hartford Title I Planning Council.
• Providing technical assistance for community-based agencies as part of the CT DPH AIDS Office's technical assistance network, the HIV Evaluation Bank. This has included the development and implementation of "Designing Effective Interventions: Using Science and Experience," a training to introduce many of the concepts of CDC's Evaluation Guidance to community-based providers and a Resource Book with step-by-step instructions on program evaluation.
• Assessing the linkages between HIV Prevention and programs which provide care to people living with HIV for the CT Dept of Public Health.
• Assessing the HIV Prevention needs of children under the age of 13 in New York City (NYC) for the NYC Dept of Health.
• Organizing and facilitating a Latino Speakout and follow up Latino Housing conference for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Hartford, CT.