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Greenbook Initiative Final Evaluation Report
The report is the final report of a cross-site evaluation of six demonstration sites in which child welfare agencies, dependency courts, and domestic violence service agencies collaborated to address the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child maltreatment in families. The six sites were San Jose and San Francisco, California, Lane County, Oregon, El Paso County, Colorado, St. Louis County…
Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
This brief summarizes key findings from several important fatherhood initiatives that were developed and implemented during the 1990s and early 2000s. Formal evaluations of these fatherhood efforts have been completed, some quite recently, making this an opportune time to step back and assess what has been learned and how policy makers and program managers can build on the early programs'…
Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives February 2008 Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Prepared By: Karin Martinson and Demetra Nightingale The Urban Institute This report is available on the Internet at:http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/PFF/KeyFindings/
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Greenbook Initiative Final Evaluation Report
The Greenbook Initiative Final Evaluation Report
Final
February 2008
Prepared by: The Greenbook National Evaluation Team ICF International 9300 Lee Highway Fairfax, VA 22031
Summary of CICH Interim Reports
BackgroundA cornerstone effort of the increased focus on chronic homelessness was the development of the Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness (CICH), an innovative demonstration project coordinated by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), jointly funded by the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Health and Human Services (HHS [SAMHSA and HRSA…
Research Brief
Developmental Status and Early Intervention Service Needs of Maltreated Children: Research Brief
Performance Measurement in the Hospital Outpatient Setting
Prepared by: Stephanie S. Teleki, Melony e.s. Sorbero, Lee Hilborne, Susan Lovejoy, Lily Bradley, Ateev Mehrotra, Cheryl l. Damberg RAND Corporation This product is part of the RAND Health working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers’ latest findings and to solicit additional peer review.
Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Services: Characteristics of People Served and Their Patterns of Care, 2001-2002
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Services: Characteristics of People Served and Their Patterns of Care, 2001-2002
The goal of this study was to describe patterns of Medicaid nursing home utilization for each state and nationally. The authors address three specific research questions in this report: (1) What are the characteristics of people who use Medicaid nursing home services? (2) How do people who use Medicaid nursing home services become eligible for Medicaid? What proportion are long-time Medicaid…
Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Services: Characteristics of People Served and Their Patterns of Care, 2001-2002
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Services: Characteristics of People Served and Their Patterns of Care, 2001-2002 Audra T. Wenzlow, Robert Schmitz and Jill Gurvey Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. January 30, 2008 PDF Version (63 PDF pages)
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Inherent Challenges and Promising Strategies From the Field
This Issue Brief focuses on the identification of international and domestic victims of human trafficking in the U.S, looking at the various challenges as well as promising practices to identifying this population. The brief looks at these issues from a broad perspective and has implications for a broad range of organizations and people (e.g., health and human service providers (both governmental…
Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking: Inherent Challenges and Promising Strategies from the Field
By: Heather J. Clawson, Ph.D. and Nicole Dutch, B.A.
Evaluation of Selected Aspects of the National Medicare Education Program: Final Design Report
January 10, 2008 Prepared by: RTI International Lauren McCormack, PhD, MSPH; Nancy Berkman, PhD; Karen Isenberg, MPH; Douglas Rupert, MPH; Jennifer Uhrig, PhD; Derek Brown, PhD; Leslie Greenwald, PhD, MPA Prepared for:Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Evaluation of Selected Aspects of the National Medicare Education Program: Final Design Report
This report provides information on several proposed design components fo ran evaluation of the National Medicare Education Program, a program sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to educate and inform beneficiaries about the Medicare program and their choices for coverage. In the report, researchers from Research Traingle International review and summarize previous NMEP…
Performance Improvement 2008
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services200 Independence Ave., S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201 Message from the Secretary Program evaluation:to study and assess projects, policies and programs and determine if they work. What is a program supposed to do? Is it having unintended or unforeseen consequences? Is it causing what is being measured or are other events or processes causing the…
Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This second paper…
Performance Measurement in the Hospital Outpatient Setting
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services contracted with RAND to conduct an environmental scan of hospital outpatient performance measurement for visits, services, and procedures paid under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System.