Current Projects

Conducted by or in Collaboration with HEROS, Inc.

Long-Term Academic and Social Benefits of Small Primary Grade Classes - Utilizing the Project STAR database, HEROS is conducting foundation-funded research to answer longitudinal questions about the long-term social, educational, and economic value of small classes in elementary schools.

Decatur County Community Action Network (C.A.N.) - HEROS, Inc. has been contracted to provide program administration/development, strategic planning and evaluation services for this economic-development project located in Decatur County, Tennessee. HEROS was instrumental in the establishment of the Decatur County Joint Economic and Community Development Board.

In-Home Services for Seniors - HEROS, Inc. was contracted to evaluate the Metro-Nashville Social Services Pilot Project on administering services to seniors living in public high-rises, and to evaluate Senior Citizens, Inc.'s Care at Home Over Institutional Care for the Elderly (CHOICE) program.

Program Results Enhance Potential (PREP) - HEROS designed the Program Results Enhance Potential (PREP) Project to help Family Resource Centers (FRCs) who partner with United Way of Metropolitan Nashville (UWMN) improve procedures for collecting and tracking outcome data. PREP operates under the fundamental principal that effective and efficient use of data leads to better program management and improved program services. HEROS works with 11 area FRCs to facilitate the process of selecting community goals and choosing data indicators to measure those goals. Neighborhood goals are then linked to individual FRC programs, strategies, and outcomes.

Tennessee SUCCESS BY 6 - SB6 was established to ensure that all children develop the emotional, social, cognitive and physical capacities and skills they need to enter school ready to succeed and also achieve success in all areas of their lives. HEROS was contracted by United Way of Chattanooga to provide questionnaire development, data collection, and analyses in order to assist with statewide planning in expanding SB6 initiatives throughout Tennessee.