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Changing the Paradigm from Treatment to Prevention: A Diabetes Case Model Context

Marsha Gold

Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom†on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results from a Cluster Randomized Trial

J. Lawrence Aber, Catalina Torrente, Leighann Starkey, Brian Johnston, Edward Seidman and Peter Halpin

Prenatal Case Management of Pregnant Women: What Is the Evidence for Its Contribution to a Reduction of Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes?

L. Michele Issel, Jamie C. Slaughter and Sarah G. Forrestal

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

Caitlin Gerdts, Teresa DePiñeres, Selma Hajri, Jame Harries, Altaf Hossain, Mahesh Puri, Divya Vohra and Diana Greene Foster

Rural Hospitals Grow Stronger But Are Not Out of the Woods: Final Evaluation Report for the 1994 Grant Program for Rural Health Care Transition

Jeanette Bergeron and Sajeed Kabir

Child Care Policy: Characteristics and Associations with Children's Development

Kimberly Boller and Jessica F. Harding

QRS Profile: District of Columbia Going for the Gold Tiered Rate Reimbursement System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Many Routes to the Top: Efforts to Improve Care Quality, Coordination, and Costs Through Provider Collaborations

Ha Tu

Examining Paradata of Minority-Owned Businesses in the Kauffman Firm Survey

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

Associations Between Physical Activity and Metabolic Syndrome: Comparison Between Self-Report and Accelerometry

Jared M. Tucker, Gregory J. Welk, Nicholas K. Beyler and Youngwon Kim

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Screening Identification Sheet

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

How Much Are Medicaid Buy-In Participants Earning?

William E. Black, Su Liu and Henry T. Ireys

Achievement Effects of Four Early Elementary School Math Curricula: Findings from First Graders in 39 Schools (Conference Paper)

Roberto Agodini

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

Cheri A. Vogel, Renée Nogales, Nikki Aikens and Louisa Tarullo

Project SPARK Landscape Analysis of Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Evaluation Capacity of Human Services and Related Programs

Alexandra Stanczyk, Mary Anne Anderson, Armando Yañez and Lauren Amos

A Randomized Trial of Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons with High Use of Publicly Funded Services

Maria C. Raven, Matthew J. Niedzwiecki and Margot Kushel

Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2011-2012 Program Year

Pamela Winston, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lauren Akers, Yange Xue, Emily Moiduddin, Elisha Smith, Nikki Aikens, Julia Lyskawa, Rebecca Mason and Susan Sprachman

Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience

Paolo Abarcar

WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Sarah Forrestal, Ronette Briefel and James Mabli

Making Child Support Safe: Coordinating Child Support and Public Assistance Agencies in Their Response to Domestic Violence

Ali Stieglitz and Amy Johnson

Kentucky’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

Frank Martin, Eric Morris, Todd Honeycutt, Gina Livermore, Annie Doubleday, Purvi Sevak and David Stapleton

What Predicts Training Completion and Credential Receipt? (Issue Brief)

Dana Rotz and Annalisa Mastri

The Effects of Complications and Comorbidities on the Quality of Preventive Diabetes Care: A Literature Review

Leslie Jackson Conwell and Chad Boult

Building and Sustaining Physician Networks in Medi-Cal Managed Care and Healthy Families

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions in Section 1115 Projects

Leighton Ku, Marilyn Ellwood, Sheila Hoag, Barbara Ormond and Judith Wooldridge

Addressing Return-to-Work Issues in the Federal Employees' Compensation Act with Administrative Data

Nan Maxwell, Albert Liu, Nathan Wozny and Caroline Massad Francis

Federal and Local Efforts to Support Youth At-Risk of Homelessness

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley

Providing Technical Assistance to Grantees Helping Families Navigate the Workforce and Child Care Systems

Elizabeth Brown, Grace Roemer, Max Rankin, Jessica Harding, Kara Conroy, Nickie Fung and Jeanette Holdbrook

Characteristics of Low-Wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Evidence from the Mid- to Late 1990s (Executive Summary)

Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan

Outreach in a Time of Budget Tightness

Judith Wooldridge, Debra Strong, Ian Hill, Eileen Ellis, Karen Sautter and Holly Stockdale

YTD Evaluation Finds Positive Impacts on Employment in Florida and West Virginia (In Focus Brief)

Thomas Fraker

Investigation of Tests for the Difference of Two Spreads

Darryl Creel

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

Evaluation of Waivers Granted Under WIA

Gretchen Rowe, Brittany English, Cassandra Pickens-Jewell, Samina Sattar and Jessica Ziegler

Evaluation of the Significant Improvement Demonstration Grants for the Provision of Reemployment Services for UI Claimants

Karen Needels, Walter Corson and Michelle VanNoy

Racial Disparities in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care: Sensitive Conditions

So O'Neil, Timothy Lake, Angela Merrill, Ander Wilson, David A. Mann and Linda M. Bartnyska

Implications of State Methods for Offering Personal Assistance Services

Laura Ruttner and Carol V. Irvin

E-Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents: Secondhand Smoke at Home Matters

Xiao Zhang and Jia Pu

Effects of Preschool Curriculum Programs on School Readiness: Report from the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research Initiative

Sarah A. Avellar, Steven Glazerman and Susan Sprachman

Ghana Power Compact: Evaluation Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Delia Welsh, Arif Mamun, Nick Ingwersen, Kristine Bos, Erin Crossett, Poonam Ravindranath, Dara Bernstein and William Derbyshire

Keystone ACO's Health Navigator Program to Identify and Close Care Gaps (Case Study)

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Constrained Innovation in Managing Care for High-Risk Seniors in Medicare+Choice Risk Plans

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis

Options for Studying Teacher Pay Reform Using Natural Experiments

Steven Glazerman, Tim Silva, Nii Addy, Sarah Avellar, Jeffrey Max, Allison McKie, Brenda Natzke, Michael Puma, Patrick Wolf and Rachel Ungerer Greszler

An Empirical Study of Nonresponse Adjustment Methods for the Survey of Doctorate Recipients

Fan Zhang, Stephen Cohen, Donsig Jang, Amang Sukasih and Sonya Vartivarian

Catalyzing Change in Secondary Education in Africa and India

Clemencia Cosentino, Swetha Sridharan and Clair Null

Sustaining Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Lessons Learned from Former OAH Grantees

Julia Alamillo, Subuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating and Jean Knab

Associations of Parent Ratings of Children's Behavior with Child Development in an Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Sample of Preschool Children

Julieta Lugo-Gil, Yange Xue, Cheri Vogel, Elaine Hill, John M. Love, Deanna Gomby and Deborah Parrish

We Can’t Be on the Sidelines: The Role of Human Services in Advancing Environmental Justice

Chloe Green, Alex Bauer, Colleen Psomas, Shaun Stevenson, Anu Rangarajan, Matthew Stagner and Jacque Gombach

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 (Summary)

Esa Eslami, Joshua Leftin and Mark Strayer

Care Coordination in Medicaid Managed Care: A Primer for States, Managed Care Organizations, Providers, and Advocates

Margo Rosenbach and Cheryl Young

A First Step to Helping California Workers Keep Their Jobs: Identifying Likely SSDI Entrants Using State Disability Claims

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Frank Neuhauser and David Stapleton

Raising the Bar: Impacts and Implementation of the New Heights Program for Expectant and Parenting Teens in Washington, DC

Subuhi Asheer, Paul Burkander, John Deke, Julie Worthington and Susan Zief

Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

Matthew J. Niedzwiecki, Rachel M. Machta, James D. Reschovsky, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

Variations in Classroom Language Environments of Preschool Children Who Are Low Income and Linguistically Diverse

Brook Sawyer, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lia Sandilos, Carol Scheffner Hammer, Lisa Lopez and Clancy Blair

Medicare's Experience with PPOs and Private Fee-for-Service Plans

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Usage of Practices Promoted by School Improvement Grants

Lisa Dragoset, Susanne James-Burdumy, Kristin Hallgren, Irma Perez-Johnson, Mariesa Herrmann, Christina Tuttle, Megan Hague Angus, Rebecca Herman, Matthew Murray, Courtney Tanenbaum and Cheryl Graczewski

Employment Outcomes for Social Security Disability Insurance Applicants Who Use Opioids

April Yanyuan Wu, Denise Hoffman, Paul O’Leary and Dara Lee Luca

Children's Diets in the Mid-1990s: Dietary Intake and Its Relationship with School Meal Participation

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes (In Focus)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design

Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt

Impacts of Uncommon Schools in a Turnaround Setting

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Breyon Williams

Assessing Early Implementation of State Autism Insurance Mandates

Julia Berlin Baller, Colleen L. Barry, Kathleen Shea, Megan M. Walker, Rachel Ouellette and David S. Mandell

Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment: Preliminary Findings from the National Evaluation

Henry Ireys, Gilbert Gimm, Boyd Gilman, Noelle Denny-Brown and Sarah Croake

Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Erin Taylor, Mary Harrington, Tricia Higgins, Vivian Byrd and Laurie Felland

CHIPRA Mandated Evaluation of Express Lane Eligibility: First Year Findings

Sheila Hoag, Sean Orzol, Margaret Colby, Adam Swinburn, Fredric Blavin, Genevieve M. Kenney and Michael Huntress

Enrolling Teenage AFDC Parents in Mandatory Education and Training Programs: Lessons from the Teenage Parent Demonstration

Alan M. Hershey

Managing Care Transitions in Medicaid: Spotlight on Community Care of North Carolina (Issue Brief)

Marsha Gold, Winnie Wang and Julia Paradise

State of Utah, Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

Using Implementation Research to Guide Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

Laura Damschroder, Deborah Peikes and Dana Petersen

Money Follows the Person 2012 Annual Evaluation Report

Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Matthew Kehn, Rebecca SweetlLester, Debra Lipson, Wilfredo Lim, Jessica Ross, Alex Bohl, Victoria Peebles, Samuel Simon, Bailey Orshan, Susan R. Williams, Eric Morris and Christal Stone

Measuring Competitive Foods in Schools: A Point of Sales Approach

Rhoda Cohen, Angelina Kewal-Ramani, Renee Nogales, James Ohls and Michael Sinclair

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007 (Appendix)

Louisa B. Tarullo, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Emily Sama Martin, Renée Nogales and Patricia Del Grosso

The Role of the Workforce System in Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Resource Guide

Colleen Staatz, Michaela Vine, Crystal Blyler and Jillian Berk

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

The Teacher-Student Data Link Project: First-Year Implementation

Kristin Hallgren, Cassie Pickens Jewell and Celina Kamler

Breastfeeding Practices and Knowledge in Indonesia

Amanda Beatty, Nick Ingwersen and Clair Null

The Unknown World of Charter High Schools

Kevin Booker, Tim Sass, Brian Gill and Ron Zimmer

The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on the Career Transition Program

Thomas Fraker, Peter Baird, Arif Mamun, Michelle Manno, John Martinez, Debbie Reed and Allison Thompkins

Episode-Based Payments: Charting a Course for Health Care Payment Reform

Hoangmai H. Pham, Paul B. Ginsburg, Timothy K. Lake and Myles M. Maxfield

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

Inter-Rater Reliability Analysis of Data to Document the Consultative Examination Process, Volume 2: Appendices

David Wittenburg, Debra Wright, Sloane Frost, Gordon Steinagle and Ron Fine

Transforming Student Success: Moving from Insight to Action by Democratizing Data across the California State University

Mikia Manley and Lisbeth Goble

Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending for Care of Chronic Conditions

Wenke Hwang, Wendy Weller, Henry Ireys and Gerard Anderson

Quality in Home-Based Child Care: A Review of Selected Literature

Juliet Bromer, Toni Porter, Christopher Jones, Marina Ragonese-Barnes and Jaimie Orland

The Disability System and Programs to Promote Employment for People with Disabilities (Journal Article)

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and Allison Thompkins

Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs

Grace Anglin, Adam Swinburn, Leslie Foster, Cindy Brach and Linda Bergofsky

Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration: Response to 21st Century Cures Act Requirements (Report to Congress)

Ellen Bouchery, Sandra Chao, Mary Allison Geibel, Claire Brindley, Christine O'Malley, Kara Zivin and Crystal Blyler

National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation-Related Technical Assistance: RPG First Annual Report

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar

Health Information Technology in the Workplace: Findings from a 2010 National Survey of Registered Nurses

Catherine M. DesRoches, Paola Miralles, Peter Buerhaus, Robert Hess and Karen Donelan

Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (ASQ): Development and Validation

Amanda Baker†€, Naomi Simon, Aparna Keshaviah, Amy Farabaugh, Thilo Deckersbach, John J. Worthington, Elizabeth Hoge, Maurizio Fava and Mark P. Pollack

Evaluating Housing Programs for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care

Robin Dion and Amy Dworsky

TANF at 10: Welfare Reform in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler

Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers

Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Bridget Lavin, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor

What Makes for a Well-Designed, Well-Implemented Impact Study

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

Final Impacts of the Gender Matters Program

Kimberly V. Smith, Claire Dye, Dana Rotz, Elizabeth Cook, Kristina Rosinsky and Mindy Scott

Knowing Is Not Half the Battle: Impacts of Information from the National Health Screening Program in Korea

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Suejin A. Lee and Wilfredo Lim

Results from the 2003 Targeted Beneficiary Survey on Access to Physician Services Among Medicare Beneficiaries

Timothy Lake, Marsha Gold, Anne Ciemnecki, Michael Sinclair, Nuria Diaz-Tena, Colette Lamothe-Galette and So Sasigant Limpa-Amara