New Hampshire and New England

	Chris Colocousis Reasearch Assistant Social stratification Community change and development Natural resource development
	Michele Dillon Senior Fellow Religion and spirituality, politics, and culture Community culture, economic development, and change
	Mil Duncan Carsey Institute Director Rural poverty Rural communities
	Curt Grimm Carsey Institute Deputy Director rural development planning and evaluation
	Kenneth M. Johnson Senior Demographer Demographic trends Demographic and environmental change Impact of immigration
	Meghan Mills Nordblom Fellow Mental health Substance abuse
	Catherine Moran Research Associate Work and economic security Health and illnes
	Kristin Smith Family Demographer Women and work Work and family policy Family economic security
	Mica Stark Outreach and Engagement Director Young workers in NH Families and communities NH politics
	Nena Stracuzzi Assistant Research Professor Family and parenting Women and work Access to healthy food
	Wendy Walsh Research Associate Family support systems Rural child abuse Job training programs
	Sally Ward Senior Faculty Advisor Social program evaluation Manufactured housing NH Healthy Kids
	Barbara Wauchope Research Associate Professor Childhood nutrition Obesity Low-income and at-risk families

Overview

The Carsey Institute has established itself as a key source of research and information in New Hampshire and Northern New England on issues facing youth, families and sustainable community development. New England’s rural communities, towns and small cities give us the grounding and provide the setting for pilot research that informs our national work. We deliberately engage with those working with families and in community development in the region and across the country to inform our research questions and disseminate our findings.  Carsey’s published reports, social change indicators databases, evaluation activities and active communications program ensure that Carsey research reaches those who can use it, and our comparative approach gives a national perspective on local and regional work. 

Publications

• Student Discipline in New Hampshire Schools (Wauchope, 2009, co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire)
• Demographic Trends in the Manchester-Nashua Metropolitain Area (Johnson and Macieski, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 16)
• Home Health Care Workers in New Hampshire: Keeping NH Elders in Their Homes (Smith, 2009, New England Policy Brief No. 2)
• Stay or Leave Coos County? Parents' Messages Matter (Tucker, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 14)
• Paid Sick Time Helps Workers Balance Work and Family (Smith, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 13)
• Navigating the Teen Years: Promise and Peril for Northern New Hampshire Youth (Shattuck, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 12)
• Youth Aspirations and Sense of Place in a Changing Rural Economy: The Coos Youth Study (Stracuzzi, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 11)
• Many New Hampshire Jobs Do Not Pay a Livable Wage (Kenyon and Churilla, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 10)
• Many New Voters Make the Granite State One to Watch in November (Johnson, Scala, and Smith, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 9)
• Profile of New Hampshire's Foreign-born Population (Gittell and Lord, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 8)
• The State of Coos County: Local Perspectives on Community and Change (Colocousis, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 7)
• The Changing Faces of New England (Johnson, 2008, Reports on New England, Volume 1, Number 2)
• The Changing Faces of New Hampshire (Johnson, 2007, Reports on New England, Volume 1, Number 1)
• New Faces at the Polls for New Hampshire Presidential Primary (Johnson, 2007, New England Fact Sheet No. 2)
• The State of Working NH 2007 (Churilla, 2007, New England Issue Brief No. 5)
• New England Has the Highest Increase in Income Disparity in the Nation (Gittell and Rudokas, 2007, New England Issue Brief No. 4)
• Children's Health Insurance in New Hampshire: An Analysis of New Hampshire Health Kids (Ward, Savage, and Stracuzzi, 2007, New England Policy Brief No. 1)
• Low-Income Families in New Hampshire (Churilla, 2006, New England Issue Brief No. 3)
• The State of Working Vermont 2006 (Churilla, 2006, Issue Brief No. 2, copublication with the Public Assets Institute)
• The State of Working NH 2006 (Churilla, 2006, New England Issue Brief No. 1)

Selected current projects

Tracking Change in the North Country

Civic Index

T.C. - Tillotson Targeted Investment evaluation and technnical assistance

Northeastern States Research Collaborative evaluation

Substance Abuse Programs in NH North Country

Status of Women's Economic Security in NH

NH Direct Care Worker Survey

Work and Family Balance Survey

Stonyfield Farm Entrepreneurship Institute

Food Insecurity and Food Deserts in NH

Coos Family Support

Employee Support Project

Neighborhood Stabilization Program evaluation

Bonnie CLAC

New Hampshire Youth Studies

See all works in progress

Useful Web site resources

Stonyfield Farm Entrepreneurship Institute

The Children's Alliance of New Hampshire