Addressing Liability Issues In Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Services (CDPAS): The National Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Selected Other Models This report addresses the liability issues that may arise in government-sponsored consumer-directed personal assistance programs (CDPAS). In analyzing these issues, the report focuses on the programs implemented in Arkansas, Florida and New Jersey as...
Project End Date: 01/31/06 |
Personal Assistance Services "Cash and Counseling" Demonstration/Evaluation In-progress This project will employ a classical experimental research design to test the effects of "cashing out" Medicaid-funded personal assistance services for the disabled. The demonstration will include elderly as well as younger disabled consumers. Two St...
Project End Date: 09/30/04 |
Development of Clinical Risk Construct to Improve HIV Prevention Counseling, Testing and Early Treatment in Family Planning Clinics In-progress The project seeks to develop a measure ("HIV risk index") for use in the Title X family planning program. The HIV risk index aims to be a workable estimate of individual HIV seroconversion risk. Its development would be based on the presence, and d...
Project End Date: 09/26/03 |
TBD About 1.2 million people receive disability-related supportive services in their homes through state Medicaid plans or home- and community-based waiver programs. Under state plans, services traditionally have been restricted to human assistance with...
Project End Date: 06/30/03 |
Enabling Personal Preference: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in New Jersey About 1.2 million people receive disability-related supportive services in their homes through state Medicaid plans or home- and community-based waiver programs. Under state plans, services traditionally have been restricted to human assistance with...
Project End Date: 03/30/03 |
The Status of Tuberculosis Prevention & Control Measures in Large City and County Jails in the U.S. The share of U.S. tuberculosis (TB) cases occurring among inmates in jail facilities is disproportionately high. Structural factors in most jails, such as overcrowding and poor ventilation, combined with inmates' heightened risk for TB, make jails a...
Project End Date: 05/31/02 |
The Evaluation of Abstinence Education Programs Funded Under Title V Section 510: Interim Report This report presented interim findings from an independent, federally funded evaluation of the abstinence education programs authorized under PRWORA and defined under Title V, Section 510 (b)(2)(A-H) of the Social Security Act. This report drew most...
Project End Date: 04/30/02 |
Treatment Effectiveness for Adolescents and Young Adults: A Re-Analysis of the Job Corps Drug Treatment Enrichment Project (DTEP) Data This report presents the results of an analysis of data collected for the CSAT-sponsored evaluation of the Job Corps Drug Treatment Enrichment Project (DTEP). The CSAT evaluation compared the experiences of adolescents who received enhanced interven...
Project End Date: 03/18/00 |
Suicide Intervention and Prevention: Evaluation of Community-Based Programs in Three American Indian Communities Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Native Americans aged 15 to 24. American Indian/Alaska Native young people are more likely to attempt suicide, to choose a highly lethal method, such as firearms or hanging, and to be successful at co...
Project End Date: 12/30/96 |
Impact of FQHC Implementation on Community and Migrant Health Center Revenue and Utilization This study assesses the impact of the Medicaid Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) legislation on revenue and utilization of Community Health Centers (CHCs), using descriptive statistics and multivariate techniques to examine the experience of f...
Project End Date: 09/20/95 |
Families and Schools Together (FAST) Families and Schools Together (FAST) is an early intervention program offered in conjunction with local public elementary schools and services agencies in Madison, Wisconsin. The program is designed to provide at-risk families with services which wil...
Project End Date: 01/20/93 |
Assessment of Guidelines for HIV Counseling and Testing: Relevant Issues for Women and Adolescents The goal of this report is to provide the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) with effective approaches to providing HIV counseling and testing for women and adolescents and to assess the adequacy of HIV counseling and testing guidelines for these popu...
Project End Date: 11/20/92 |
Assessing JOBS Participants: Issues and Trade-offs This report on the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) Program examines various issues related to assessment, or the process by which program participants are matched with JOBS services. Intended for the administrators of JOBS programs, the pap...
Project End Date: 08/20/92 |
Economy and Efficacy of Medicare Reimbursement for Preventive Services This report summarizes the results of the North Carolina Medicare Preventive Services Project, a six-year demonstration that assessed the impact and cost-effectiveness of Medicare reimbursement for clinical screening services and health promotion cou...
Project End Date: 05/20/92 |
Assessment of CDC-Funded Counseling, Testing, Referral, and Partner Notification (CTRPN) Services for Prevention of HIV Transmission The cornerstone of the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC's) HIV/AIDS prevention efforts is its counseling, testing, referral, and partner notification (CTRPN) program. This study, prepared in support of a comprehensive system to monitor and evaluate...
Project End Date: 03/20/92 |