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  Susan Scrivener
Senior Associate
 
     
    A Good Start
Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
    2008. Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo, with Jenny Au, Jedediah J. Teres, and Susan Yeh.

Freshmen in a “learning community” at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses, and earned more credits in their first semester than students in a control group. Two years later, they were also somewhat more likely to be enrolled in college.
 
    The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the South Carolina ERA Site
    2005. Susan Scrivener, Gilda Azurdia, and Jocelyn Page.

An MDRC evaluation of Moving Up, a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and move up in the labor market, found that the program had little effect on employment rates, earnings, employment retention, or advancement.
 
    The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Early Results from Four Sites
    2005. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Karin Martinson, and Susan Scrivener.

Early results are mixed for Employment Retention and Advancement project programs in four sites, but programs in two sites appear to help some welfare recipients work more steadily and advance to higher-paying jobs.
 
    Support Success
Services That May Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
    2004. Rogéair Purnell and Susan Blank with Susan Scrivener and Reishma Seupersad.

Community colleges can pursue many strategies for enhancing student services, including offering “one-stop shopping,” which provides students with multiple services at the same time and place.
 
    WRP
Final Report on Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
    2002. Susan Scrivener, Richard Hendra, Cindy Redcross,Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter.

 
    Improving Basic Skills
The Effects of Adult Education in Welfare-to-Work Programs
    U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Johannes M. Bos, Susan Scrivener, Jason Snipes, Gayle Hamilton with Christine Schwartz, Johanna Walter.

Since the early 1980s, welfare policymakers and program operators have debated the role of adult education in program strategies to help welfare recipients make the transition from welfare to work. This report addresses key questions about how welfare-to-work programs that emphasize adult education activities affect the educational and economic outcomes of welfare recipients.
 
    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.

 
    Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter with Thomas Brock, Gayle Hamilton.

This report, from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, examines the relative effectiveness of traditional versus integrated case-management approaches in welfare-to-work programs.
 
    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.

 
    Oklahoma City's ET & E Program
Two-Year Implementation, Participation, Cost, and Impact Findings
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Laura Storto, Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, Susan Scrivener.

 
    Jobs First
Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
    2000. Dan Bloom, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter.

 
    Promoting Participation
How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities
    1999. Gayle Hamilton, Susan Scrivener.

 
    Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1998. Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Christine Schwartz.

 
 



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