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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

Making Connections: Using Social Network Analysis for Program Evaluation

Todd Honeycutt

Evaluating Housing Programs for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care

Robin Dion and Amy Dworsky

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

Program Structure and Service Delivery in Eleven Welfare-to-Work Grant Programs

Demetra Smith Nightingale

Evaluation of the Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA) Program: Beneficiaries Served, Services Provided, and Program Costs, Appendix

Jody Schimmel, Bonnie O'Day, Allison Roche, Gina Livermore and Dominic Harris

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

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Do Carrots Work Better than Sticks? Results from the National Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration

Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer and Robert G. Wood

New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Stakeholders' Forum

Janice Ballou, David Frank, Audrey McDonald and Julie Rothbard

Learn, Innovate, Improve (LI²): Enhancing Programs and Improving Lives (Practice Brief)

Michelle Derr, Ann Person and Jonathan McCay

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

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

The Multiethnic Placement Act 25 Years Later: Trends in Adoption and Transracial Adoption

Allon Kalisher, Jennah Gosciak and Jill Spielfogel

Drawing Across School Boundaries: How Federally Funded Magnet Schools Recruit and Admit Students

Moira McCullough, Lindsay Ochoa and Christina Clark Tuttle

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

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

School Breakfast Program But Not School Lunch Program Participation Is Associated with Lower Body Mass Index

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

Learning As We Go: A First Snapshot of Early Head Start Programs, Staff, Families, and Children. Volume I

Cheri A. Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Yange Xue, Randall Blair, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Yevgeny Shrago, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Laura Kalb, Linda Mendenko, Judith Cannon, Sean Harrington and Jillian Stein

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

Wenke Hwang, Wendy Weller, Henry Ireys and Gerard Anderson

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

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

Predictors and Moderators of Symptom Change During Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Supportive Psychotherapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Katharine A. Phillips, Jennifer L. Greenberg, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Hilary Weingarden, Sheila O'Keefe, Aparna Keshaviah, David A. Schoenfeld and Sabine Wilhelm

Evaluation of Employment Coaching for TANF and Related Populations Program Snapshot: FaDSS

Kristen Joyce and Sheena McConnell

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

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

Training Teens and Transforming School Culture Through Comprehensive Sex Education: An Implementation Study of Teen PEP (Executive Summary)

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

Medicaid Beneficiaries Using Mental Health or Substance Abuse Services in Fee-for-Service Plans in 13 States, 2003

Henry T. Ireys, Allison L. Barrett, Jeffrey A. Buck, Thomas W. Croghan, Melanie Au and Judith L. Teich

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

Kimberly Boller and Jessica F. Harding

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

David Wittenburg, David R. Mann and Allison Thompkins

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

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

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

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

Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler

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

Philip Gleason and Carol Suitor

Kentucky’s SGA Project Demonstration: An Interim Evaluation Report

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

Income and Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS)

John L. Czajka

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), 1992-2001

Robert Schmitz

Year 2 Demonstration Impacts of Using Medicaid Data to Directly Certify Students for Free School Meals: Final Evaluation Report (Summary)

Lara Hulsey, Joshua Leftin, Anne Gordon, Claire Smither Wulsin, Nicholas Redel, Allen Schirm, Nicholas Beyler, Sheila Heaviside, Brian Estes and Carole Trippe

Food Stamp Program Entry and Exit: Participation Trends in the 1990s (Presentation)

Scott Cody, Phil Gleason, Bruce Schechter, Miki Satake and Julie Sykes

The Faces of Medicaid: The Complexities of Caring for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities

Susan M. Allen, Alison L. Croke, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Margo Rosenbach and Arnold Chen Theresa Nguygen

Evaluation and Measurement for TAACCCT Grant Programs: Recommendations and Resources for Getting Started

Nan Maxwell, Ann Person and Julie Bruch

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

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

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

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

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley

Implementing Covid-19 Routine Testing in K-12 Schools: Lessons and Recommendations from Pilot Sites

Divya Vohra, Patricia Rowan, John Hotchkiss, Kenneth Lim, Aimee Lansdale and So O'Neil

CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Help School-Based Health Centers Strengthen their Medical Home Features (Brief)

Mynti Hossain, Rebecca Coughlin and Joseph Zickafoose

Variation in Risk-Standardized Rates and Causes of Unplanned Hospital Visits Within 7 Days of Hospital Outpatient Surgery

Mayur M. Desai, Cheryl K. Zogg, Isuru Ranasinghe, Craig S. Parzynski, Zhenqiu Lin, Marianna Gorbaty, Angela Merrill, Harlan M. Krumholz and Elizabeth E. Drye

Designing Care Management Entities for Youth with Complex Behavioral Health Needs

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

Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program

Elizabeth Clary, Jonathan Ladinsky, Megan Hague Angus and Alexander Millar

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

Henry May, Irma Perez-Johnson, Josh Haimson, Samina Sattar and Phil Gleason

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

Megan McHugh, Rose Marie Martinez, Rebecca Kliman and Sara Roschwalb

What Are Error Rates for Classifying Teacher and School Performance Using Value-Added Models?

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Study Design, Sampling, and Data Collection

Eric Zeidman, Nicholas Beyler, Elizabeth Gearan, Nikkilyn Morrison, Katherine Niland, Liana Washburn, Barbara Carlson, David Judkins, Lindsey LeClair, Michele Mendelson, Tara Wommack, Justin Carnagey, Maureen Murphy and Andre Williamson

Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospital Use by Medicare Beneficiaries in Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Jesse M. Pines, Vincent Keyes, Martijn van Hasselt and Nancy McCall

Case Study of National School Lunch Program Verification Outcomes in Large Metropolitan School Districts

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

Healthy Indiana Plan: Lessons for Health Reform

Timothy K. Lake, Vivian L. H. Byrd and Seema Verma

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

Mikia Manley and Lisbeth Goble

Catalyzing Change in Secondary Education in Africa and India

Clemencia Cosentino, Swetha Sridharan and Clair Null

Modernization of the Food Stamp Program in Florida

Scott Cody, Renee Nogales and Emily Sama-Martin

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

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

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

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell

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

Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan

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

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

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

Paolo Abarcar

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

Dana Rotz and Annalisa Mastri

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

Laura Damschroder, Deborah Peikes and Dana Petersen

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

Jessica Mittler and Marsha Gold

The Role of Workplace Accommodations in the Employment of People with Disabilities

Priyanka Anand and Purvi Sevak

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2006

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

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

Kristin Hallgren, Cassie Pickens Jewell and Celina Kamler

State of South Carolina. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Lea Nolan, Jessica Mittler and Ben Marglin

Did the ADA Evolve into Our Ramp to Full Employment? An Analysis of 18 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Allison V. Thompkins

Changing Stays? Duration of Supplemental Security Income Participation by First-Time Child Awardees and the Role of Continuing Disability Reviews

Jeffrey Hemmeter, Michael Levere, Pragya Singh and David Wittenburg

Employment Among Social Security Disability Program Beneficiaries, 1996-2007

Arif Mamun, Paul O'Leary, David Wittenburg and Jesse Gregory

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

Alan M. Hershey

Recommendations for Successfully Recruiting and Retaining District Participation in a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact Evaluation

Timothy Bruursema

Diet Quality of American School-Age Children by School Lunch Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

Nancy Cole and Mary Kay Fox

Evaluation Interim Report for the Georgia II Industry-Led Skills and Workforce Development Project

Evan Borkum, Irina Cheban, Camila Fernandez and Ira Nichols-Barrer

The Sequential Scale-Up of an Evidence-Based Intervention: A Case Study

Jaime Thomas, Thomas D. Cook, Alice Klein, Prentice Starkey and Lydia DeFlorio

Findings from the Survey of Early Head Start Programs: Communities, Programs, and Families

Cheri Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Laura Hawkinson, Angela Richardson, Linda Mendenko and Rachel Chazan-Cohen

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

SNP and MMP Development: A National Profile and Key Issues for the Future

James M. Verdier

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

Teacher Bonuses for Extra Work: A Profile of Missouri's Career Ladder Program

Timothy Silman and Steven Glazerman

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

Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Themes from Site Visits to Five States

Jenna Libersky, Cara Stepanczuk, Rebecca Lester, Kristie Liao and Debra Lipson

Outreach in a Time of Budget Tightness

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

A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs in Spring 2015: FACES 2014-2015 Data Tables and Study Design

Emily Moiduddin, Charles Bush, Mikia Manley, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo, Lizabeth Malone and Serge Lukashanets

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

Hanzhi Zhou, Michael R. Elliott and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (TQRIS) in the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) States

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Andrea Mraz Esposito, Lauren Murphy, Megan Shoji, Patricia Del Grosso, Wamaitha Kiambuthi, Melissa Clark and Lisa Dragoset

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

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

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

Cross-Site Evaluation of the Supporting Evidence-Based Home Visiting Grantee Cluster: Evaluation Design Volume 1

Heather Koball, Heather Zaveri, Kimberly Boller, Deborah Daro, Jean Knab, Diane Paulsell, Margaret Hargreaves, Debra A. Strong, Lizabeth Malone, Patricia Del Grosso and Yange Xue

Measuring and Reducing Errors in the School Meal Programs: The APEC II Study and FNS Actions (Summary)

Food and Nutrition Service with support from Mathematica Policy Research

Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Momentum Is Increasing After a Modest Start

Margo Rosenbach, Marilyn Ellwood, John Czajka, Carol Irvin, Wendy Coupé and Brian Quinn

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

Comments on "The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa"

Jane Fortson

Evaluation of the Team-Based Goals and Performance-Based Incentives (TBGI) Innovation in Bihar

Evan Borkum, Anu Rangarajan, Dana Rotz, Swetha Sridharan, Sukhmani Sethi and Mercy Manorajini

Two-Step Estimation in Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighted Causal Mediation Analysis

Edward Bein, Jonah Deutsch, Guanglei Hong, Kristin E. Porter, Xu Qin and Cheng Yang

State Strategies for Improving Child Support Outcomes for Incarcerated Parents

Delara Aharpour, Lindsay Ochoa, Jillian Stein and Marykate Zukiewicz

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

Alyson Burnett, Julieta Lugo-Gil and Sarah Avellar