Summarizes lessons learned for stations, partnerships, and outreach from an ongoing five-year evaluation of <I>Ready To Learn</I>, a Public Broadcasting Service and U.S. Department of Education initiative to help enhance children’s readiness for school. Stations need to be committed to the program...</i>

Notes that the mix of families remaining on cash assistance has changed, with child-only cases—in which only children are receiving assistance—becoming a growing portion of New Jersey’s welfare caseload. These cases grew from 17 percent of the state’s caseload in 1995 to 33...

This interim report from Mathematica's longitudinal study presents 18 months of follow-up data on families whose cases closed in early 1998 because of a time limit. Notes that nearly all parents worked at some point during the follow-up period, and most worked for more than half of it. Wages...

Describes the experiences of 240 early clients in Personal Preference, the state's cash and counseling demonstration. Notes that 76 percent were still enrolled at the time of the nine-month interview, 17 percent had dropped out, and 7 percent had died. More than 7 out of 10 cash recipients said...

Details innovative programs in Illinois, Nebraska, and Tennessee participating in a rigorous five-year study of rural welfare-to-work strategies. Also discusses the evaluation design. The project, which will assess the effectiveness of three diverse program approaches in promoting the...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1999-2000 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 97 percent of middle school participants and 95...

Identifies strategies that state and local welfare offices are using to promote participation in food stamps, Medicaid, and SCHIP. Also discusses challenges they face in providing support to working families. The findings suggest that diverse strategies, focusing on program awareness,...

Looks at the advantages of using a different number of weighting cells or propensity scores to adjust for nonresponse in the Community Tracking Study physician survey. Finds a large difference between the two methods in their ability to reduce bias and produce variation in weights.

This case study of four well-regarded managed care organizations found that they made numerous innovations to improve care delivery for elderly Medicare beneficiaries with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Using the flexibility provided by capitation, they added new services in 1) screening to...