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Rethinking the Mental Health Treatment Skills of Primary Care Staff: A Framework for Training and Research

Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow

Electronic Health Records Demonstration Office Systems Survey: Spring 2011

Mathematica Policy Research

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 1998 (Issue Brief)

Laura Castner and Jacquelyn Anderson

Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Interventions on Schooling Outcomes Among Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lusaka, Zambia (Working Paper)

Minki Chatterji, Paul Hutchinson, Nancy Murray, Kathy Buek, Yvonne Mulenga and Tom Ventimiglia

What Does $1,000 in Seed Capital Buy? Emerging Lessons from the SET Program’s Offer of Microgrants for Business Start-Ups

Mary Anne Anderson, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson and Caroline Massad Francis

Medicare Advantage 2004 Payment Increases Resulting from the Medicare Modernization Act

Lori Achman and Marsha Gold

Effects of Four Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Low-Income Fathers: Evidence from the Parents and Children Together Evaluation

Sarah Avellar, Reginald Covington, Quinn Moore, Ankita Patnaik and April Wu

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 6 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers

Hand in Hand: Enhancing the Synergy between Money Follows the Person and Managed Long-Term Services and Supports

Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson and Kristie Liao

Can Vertically Integrated Health Systems Provide Greater Value: The Case of Hospitals Under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model?

Rachel M. Machta, James Reschovsky, David J. Jones, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

Assessing the Impact of Medically Tailored Meals and Medical Nutrition Therapy on Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for Project MiNT

Kristin L. Rising, Mackenzie Kemp, Patricia Davidson, Judd E. Hollander, Serge Jabbour, Eric Jutkowitz, Benjamin E. Leiby, Cheryl Marco, Ian McElwee, Geoffrey Mills, Laura Pizzi, Rhea E. Powell and Anna Marie Chang

Building Strong Ready to Learn Outreach

Cheri Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Stacey Uhl and Lindsay Dobrzynski

Influencing Mode Choice in a Multi-Mode Survey

Geraldine Mooney, Cheryl De Saw, Xiaojing Lin, Andrew Hurwitz and Flora Lan

Accountable Care Organizations: Will They Deliver?

Marsha Gold

Pathways to Careers Employer Case Study: Futura Industries

Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk

Implementing Large-Scale Studies of Children Using Clinical Assessments

Elizabeth T. Spier, Susan Sprachman and Cassandra Rowand

Charge of the Right Brigade? Communities, Coverage, and Care for the Uninsured

Lawrence D. Brown and Beth Stevens

Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher Practices

Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin

Building Coalitions to Support Maternal Health Quality of Care in India

So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Emma Pottinger

Data Equity to Advance Health and Health Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review

So O'Neil, Sydney Taylor and Anitha Sivasankaran

A National Assessment of Children with Special Health Care Needs: Prevalence of Special Needs and Use of Health Care Services Among Children in the Military Health System

Thomas V. Williams, Eric M. Schone, Nancy D. Archibald and Joseph W. Thompson

QRS Profile: Colorado Qualistar

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Impacts of the National Health Service Corps: A Survival Analysis

Thomas R. Konrad, Kirsten Leysieffer, Rose Marie Martinez, Richard Niska and Barbara L. Wells

Assessing Cultural Perspectives on Healthcare Quality

Ann D. Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin and Alicia Leonard

The Role of the Workforce System in Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Review of the Literature

Michaela Vine, Colleen Staatz, Crystal Blyler and Jillian Berk

Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement

Kalamazoo, W.E. Upjohn Institute Mi:, Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers, Richard Burkhauser and Editors

Indicators of Child Family and Community Connections

Various Authors

Student Participation in the School Nutrition Programs: An Econometric and Simulation Model

Philip M. Gleason

Creating Capacity for Improvement in Primary Care: The Case for Developing a Quality Improvement Infrastructure

Erin Fries Taylor, Deborah Peikes, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

The Changing Medical and Long-Term Care Expenditures of People Who Transition from Institutional Care to Home- and Community-Based Services

Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Dean Miller, Wilfredo Lim and Carol V. Irvin

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): Improper Payments Data Collection Pilot Project

Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey, Stacie Feldman, Claudia Gentile and John Hall

Choosing Wisely: Selecting Outcomes for Comparative Effectiveness Research on Services for Adults with Disabilities

Debra J. Lipson, Matthew Kehn and Eugene Rich

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Jessica Mittler and Beth Stevens

Disease Management Options: Issues for State Medicaid Programs to Consider

Randall Brown and Arnold Chen

Treatment Approach and HbA1c Control Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: NHANES 1999-2004

Allison Hedley Dodd, Margaret S. Colby, Kristina S. Boye, Cheryl Fahlman, Sunny Kim and Ronette R. Briefel

Changes in the Availability of Community-Based Mental Health Care for Various Population Groups from 2014 to 2020

Brigitte Manteuffel, Luke Horner, Natalie Hazelwood and Ruchir Karmali

Characteristics and Dietary Patterns of Healthy and Less-Healthy Eaters in the Low-Income Population

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Mary Kay Fox and P.K. Newby

The Evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Design Report, Volume II: Data Collection Instruments

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Quality Rating Systems in Medicaid Managed Care

Patricia Rowan, Ruth Hsu, Télyse Masaoay and Stephanie Parver

Expanding Access to Medicaid Data for Research: Feasibility of a MAX Sample

Audra Wenzlow, Ellen Bouchery and John Czajka

Nebraska Health Network’s Data Management System for Improving Quality and Reducing Costs (Case Study)

Mario Gruszczynski, Natalie Graves and Sonya Streeter

Usual Food Intakes of 2- and 3-Year Old U.S. Children Are Not Consistent with Dietary Guidelines

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth Gearan, Judith Cannon, Ronette Briefel, Denise M. Deming, Alison L. Eldridge and Kathleen C. Reidy

Career Ladders and Pathways for the Hard-to-Employ

Alison Gash and Melissa Mack

Valuing Student Competencies: Which Ones Predict Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Earnings, and for Whom?

John Deke and Joshua Haimson

Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries 2008 Annual Report

Kristin Andrews, Katherine Bencio, Jonathan David Brown, Leslie Jackson Conwell, Cheryl Fahlman and Eric Schone

Synthesis of Findings on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment in Five States

Sheila D. Hoag

Strengthening Unmarried Parents' Relationships: The Early Impacts of Building Strong Families

Robert G. Wood, Sheena McConnell, Quinn Moore, Andrew Clarkwest and JoAnn Hsueh

The Evaluation of the National Long-Term Care Demonstration: Final Report

Peter Kemper, Randall S. Brown, George J. Carcagno, Robert A. Applebaum, Jon B. Christianson, Walter Corson, Shari Miller Dunstan, Thomas Grannemann, Margaret Harrigan, Nancy Holden, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore, Craig Thornton, Judith Wooldridge and Felicity Skidmore

Minimizing Youth Involvement with the Courts: A Profile of Face Forward Grantees' Diversion Services

Ivette Gutierrez, Sukey Leshnick and Jillian Stein

Forming a Team to Ensure High-Quality Measurement in Education Studies

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Kimberly Boller

Local Health Departments Lead Efforts Against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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

Research Motivations and Undergraduate Researchers’ Disciplinary Identity

Shannon N. Davis and Sarah E. Wagner

Tips for Supporting Elementary Writing Skills at Home

Christine Ross

Toddlers in Early Head Start: A Portrait of 3-Year-Olds, Their Families, and the Programs Serving Them. Volume I: Age 3 Report

Cheri A. Vogel, Pia Caronongan, Yange Xue, Jaime Thomas, Eileen Bandel, Nikki Aikens, Kimberly Boller and Lauren Murphy

Youth At-Risk of Homelessness: Design for an Implementation Study of "Pathways to Success"

Rosalind Keith, Rebekah Selekman and Andrew Burwick

Designing a National Evaluation of an Ongoing Program: Lessons from the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation

Sheena McConnell

Employment Services and Supports Available to Veterans with Disabilities Through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Other Federal Agencies

Michael West and John Kregel

Phased Development of a Modern Gateway for Disability Benefits

David C. Stapleton, Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David R. Mann

Characteristics of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Provider Network: Implications for Access to Care Under the Affordable Care Act

Ellen Bouchery, Boyd Gilman, Sylvia Trent-Adams and Laura Cheever

Customized Employment: Translating Policy Into Practice Through SourceAmerica Pathways to Careers

Purvi Sevak, Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk

Impacts on Employment and Earnings

Paul T. Decker, Christopher O'Leary and Stephen Woodbury

Strength in Numbers: Strategic Partnerships Helped Provide Better LMI

Diane Herz and Brittany English

Policy Opportunities to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions

Jennifer E. Moore, Monica R. McLemore, Nadia Glenn and Kara Zivin

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2000, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Horseshoes, Hand Grenades, and Treatment Effects? Reassessing Bias in Nonexperimental Estimators

Kenneth Fortson, Philip Gleason, Emma Kopa and Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Measuring Employment of People with Disabilities

David Wittenburg

Discontinuous Coverage in Medicaid and the Implications of 12-Month Continuous Coverage for Children

Carol Irvin, Deborah Peikes, Chris Trenholm and Nazmul Khan

Opportunities for Improving Chronic Care Management to Address Demands for Accessible Accountable Care During and After the Pandemic

Ann O'Malley and Eugene Rich

Managed Long Term Care: Options for New York and Examples from Other States

James M. Verdier

Comparison of With-Replacement and Without-Replacement Variance Estimates for a Complex Survey

Frank J. Potter, Stephen Williams, Nuria Diaz-Tena, James Reschovsky and Elizabeth Schaefer

Value for the Money Spent? Exploring the Relationship Between Medicaid Costs and Quality

Debra Lipson, Margaret Colby, Tim Lake, Su Liu and Sarah Turchin

Considerations for and Lessons Learned from Online, Synchronous Focus Groups

Sarah G. Forrestal, Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo and Lisa Klein Vogel

Analysis of Reform Models for Extending Health Care Coverage in New Mexico

Deborah Chollet and Lee Reynis

Infant Mortality Prevention in American Indian Communities: Northern Plains Healthy Start

Embry Howell, Beth Zimmerman and Elizabeth Closter

Household Food Security in the United States, 1995-1997: Technical Issues and Statistical Report

James Ohls, Larry Radbill and Allen Schirm

The Status of Academic Libraries in the United States: Results from the 1994 Academic Library Survey, With Historical Comparisons to 1974

Margaret W. Cahalan and Natalie M. Justh

Statistical Power for the Comparative Regression Discontinuity Design with a Pretest No-Treatment Control Function: Theory and Evidence from the National Head Start Impact Study

Yang Tang and Thomas D. Cook

Medicaid Populations with Chronic and Disabling Conditions: A Compilation of Data on Their Characteristics, Health Conditions, Service Use, and Medicaid Payments

Carol V. Irvin and Christopher Johnson

Evaluation of the Burkina Faso Agriculture Development Project: Design Report

Christopher Ksoll, Chantal Toledo, Seth Morgan, Anca Dumitrescu and Kristen Velyvis

Small Area Estimation: New Developments and Directions for HHS Data

John L. Czajka, Amang Sukasih and Alyssa Maccarone

Learning from Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Moira McCullough, Joshua Haimson and Brian Gill

Bayesian Interpretation of Cluster-Robust Subgroup Impact Estimates: The Best of Both Worlds

Erin R. Lipman, John Deke and Mariel Finucane

Menu of Measures: High-Quality Measures of Middle Years Math Student Outcomes

Julie Bruch, Jasmine Forde, Ijun Lai and Veronica Sotelo Muñoz

Promoting Children’s Physical Activity in Low-Income Communities in Colorado: What Are the Barriers and Opportunities?

Daniel M. Finkelstein, Dana M. Petersen and Lisa S. Schottenfeld

Medicare Advantage Benefit Design: What Does It Provide, What Doesn't It Provide, and Should Standards Apply?

Marsha Gold and Maria Cupples Hudson

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 (Appendices)

Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt

Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions

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

Instructional Practices and Student Math Achievement: Correlations from a Study of Math Curricula (Issue Brief)

Douglas H. Clements, Roberto Agodini and Barbara Harris

Head Start Children’s Developmental Progress and Kindergarten Experiences

Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Jerry West and Louisa Tarullo

Outcomes of Competency-Based Education in Community Colleges: Summative Findings from the Evaluation of a TAACCCT Grant

Ann E. Person, Jaime Thomas, Julie Bruch, Alexander Johann and Nikhail Maestas

Using Coaching and Navigation to Promote Economic Mobility: How Might Programs Provide These Services Virtually?

Mary Anne Anderson and Michelle Derr

Promising Models of Care Coordination in Medicare: Lessons for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Illnesses

Deborah Peikes, Randall Brown, Greg Peterson and Jennifer Schore

Understanding College Match Among KIPP Northern California Students

Naihobe Gonzalez and Dan Thal

Value-Added Models for the Pittsburgh Public Schools

Matthew Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker and Julie Bruch

Evaluation of Oakland Unite: Year 1 Strategy Report

Naihobe Gonzalez, Johanna Lacoe, Ebo Dawson-Andoh, Armando Yañez, Natasha Nicolai and Sarah Crissey

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Second Annual Report: Appendices to the Supplemental Volume

Arkadipta Ghosh, Sean Orzol, Stacy Dale, Jessica Laird, Ning Fu, Pragya Singh, Min-Young Kim, Amanda Markovitz, Kaylyn Swankoski, Nancy Duda, Rachel Machta, Carol Urato, Mariel Finucane, Lauren Vollmer, Constance Delannoy, Lee-Lee Ellis, Grace Oh, Brianna Sullivan, Dana Jean-Baptiste, Ann O'Malley, Rosalind Keith, Randall Brown, Grace Anglin, Deborah Peikes and Et Al.

The Charlestown Retirement Community Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year

Nancy Archibald, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol

Reaching Those in Need: How Effective Is the Food Stamp Program?

Allen L. Schirm

Consolidation of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016–18

Michael F. Furukawa, Laura Kimmey, David J. Jones, Rachel M. Machta, Jing Guo and Eugene C. Rich

The National Children's Study 2014: Commentary on a Recent National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Report

Marie C. McCormick, Dean B. Baker, Paul P. Biemer, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Ana V. Diez Roux, Virginia M. Lesser, Sara S. McLanahan, George R. Saade, S. Lynne Stokes, Leonardo Trasande and Greg Duncan