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  Pamela Morris
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    Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Thirty-Six Months After Random Assignment
    2011. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.

A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression while the program was running, but it did not help individuals sustain treatment after the intervention ended. The program did not reduce depression on average, nor did it have any effect on employment outcomes.
 
    Working toward Wellness
Telephone Care Management for Medicaid Recipients with Depression, Eighteen Months After Random Assignment
    2010. Sue Kim, Allen LeBlanc, Pamela Morris, Greg Simon, and Johanna Walter.

A telephonic care management program increased the use of mental health services by Medicaid recipients with depression, although that effect faded over time. The program did not reduce depression on average, but it did reduce the number of people who suffered from very severe depression.
 
    Making Preschool More Productive
How Classroom Management Training Can Help Teachers
    2010. Pamela Morris, C. Cybele Raver, Megan Millenky, Stephanie Jones, and Chrishana M. Lloyd.

Foundations of Learning provided training and in-class support to teachers to help guide children’s behavior and emotional development. In Newark, NJ, the program improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and increased children’s engagement. A year later, few effects for children were sustained as they entered kindergarten, but teachers were still engaged in positive practices.
 
    Can Teacher Training in Classroom Management Make a Difference for Children’s Experiences in Preschool?
A Preview of Findings from the Foundations of Learning Demonstration
    2009. Pamela Morris, Cybele Raver, Chrishana M. Lloyd, and Megan Millenky.

Early evaluation results from Newark, NJ, show that Foundations of Learning improved teachers’ classroom management and productivity, reduced children’s conflict with peers, and engaged students in the learning tasks of preschool. The intervention was implemented in Head Start programs, community-based child care centers, and public schools.
 
    Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children
New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s
    2005. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. Social Policy Report Volume XIX, No.2.

In welfare and employment programs that provide earnings supplements, increased family income plays a key role in improving children’s school achievement.
 
    Children in Public Housing Developments
An Examination of the Children at the Beginning of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
    2002. Pamela Morris, Stephanie Jones with Jared Smith.

Children who live in public housing are commonly thought to be at greater risk of experiencing academic and behavioral problems than other low-income children, but this paper is among the few to explore empirically the characteristics and circumstances of these children.
 
    Using Instrumental Variables Analysis to Learn More from Social Policy Experiments
    2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Johannes M. Bos, Pamela A. Morris.

 
    Making Work Pay
Final Report on the Self-Sufficiency Project for Long-Term Welfare Recipients
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2002. Charles Michalopoulos, Doug Tattrie, Cynthia Miller, Philip K. Robins, Pamela Morris, David Gyarmati, Cindy Redcross, Kelly Foley, Reuben Ford.

Recognizing that welfare recipients who find jobs may remain poor, the "make work pay" approach rewards those who work by boosting their income. This strategy was the centerpiece of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a large-scale demonstration program in Canada that offered monthly earnings supplements to single parents who left welfare for full-time work.
 
    Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
    2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.

 
    Jobs First
Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
    2002. Dan Bloom, Susan Scrivener, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Richard Hendra, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Johanna Walter with Wanda Vargas.

 
    Identifying Effects of Income on Children's Development
Integrating and Instrumental Variables Analytic Method with an Experimental Design
Working Paper
    2002. Pamela A. Morris and Lisa A. Gennetian.

 
    How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children
A Synthesis of Research
    2001. Pamela A. Morris, Aletha C. Huston, Greg J. Duncan, Danielle A. Crosby, Johannes M. Bos.

This monograph assesses the effects on children of three policies that now form part of many states' current welfare packages: providing financial supports to working families, requiring single parents to work or to participate in work-related activities, and putting time limits on welfare benefits.
 
    The Family Transition Program
Final Report on Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
    2000. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, David Seith, Johanna Walter.

 
    The Self-Sufficiency Project at 36 Months
Effects on Children of a Program That Increased Parental Employment and Income (SRDC)
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
2000. Pamela Morris, Charles Michalopoulos.

 
 



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