About MDRC
Page has approximately 20 years of experience in public-policy research and project management. She currently serves as the resource manager for two large-scale demonstration and evaluation projects: Making Pre-K Count and the Expanding Children’s Early Learning (ExCEL) Network. As a resource manager she works with project directors and task leaders on the day-to-day management of the projects and serves as a liaison to funders, subcontractors, and other research partners. She has provided site-development and technical-assistance support, conducted field research and analyzed qualitative data and other data on program implementation, and written reports and other project deliverables and communications as part of the Employment Retention and Advancement and the Supporting Healthy Marriage projects. As the lead resource manager for the Family Well-Being and Children’s Development Policy Area, she manages day-to-day activities such as the development, maintenance, and monitoring of work plans, staffing and deployment, expenditures, and budgets for all policy-area projects. She also communicates with partners and funders and supports the development of new projects and strategic plans. Before joining MDRC, Page was the project manager of the David Rockefeller Fellows Program, a civic leadership program at the Partnership for New York City designed to enable a new generation of private-sector leaders to deepen their understanding of the public needs of New York City, and to take an active role in shaping its future. She had her start in public-policy research as a research assistant at Abt Associates, Inc. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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MDRC Publications
ReportOctober, 2006An evaluation of a retention and advancement program for recently employed welfare recipients shows modest increases in employment and large reductions in welfare receipt during the first two years of follow-up.
ReportNovember, 2005An 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.
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Other Publications
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Projects
Child First is a comprehensive, home-based, therapeutic intervention that targets young children and families with multiple risks and connects them with the services they need to support healthy child development. An earlier randomized controlled trial of Child First in one location showed that the program improved children’s social-emotional skills and language...
JoAnn Hsueh, Sharon Huang, Sharon Rowser, Meghan McCormick, Michelle Maier, Rebecca Unterman, Desiree Principe Alderson, Barbara Condliffe, Jocelyn Page, Amena Sengal, Sonia Drohojowska, Ilana Blum, Marissa Strassberger, Marie-Andrée Somers, Noemi Altman, Alexandra Bernardi, Mirjana Pralica, Mervett HefyanWith broad support across the political spectrum, states and localities throughout the country are expanding preschool programs for low-income children. While the public will is strong and the experience to date is encouraging, there is a need for firmer evidence on the most cost-effective ways to produce lasting impacts for children, especially when programs operate...
Shira Kolnik Mattera, Sharon Huang, Seth Muzzy, Jocelyn Page, Samantha Wulfsohn, Marissa Strassberger, Amena Sengal, Mirjana PralicaThe High 5s project is part of the Robin Hood Early Childhood Research Initiative, a partnership between MDRC and the Robin Hood Foundation focused on improving the life trajectories of low-income children in New York City. The Initiative’s first project, Making Pre-K Count ( MPC ), was designed to improve pre-k math instruction using the Building Blocks ...
Barbara S. Goldman, Sharon Huang, Shira Kolnik Mattera, Michelle Maier, Seth Muzzy, Jocelyn Page, Electra Small, Samantha Wulfsohn, Marissa Strassberger, Amena Sengal, Mirjana PralicaMaking Pre-K Count is the result of a partnership between MDRC and the Robin Hood Foundation whose goal is to build evidence about ways to improve the life trajectories of children living in poverty in New York City. The partnership’s first project focuses on improving preschool children’s math skills.
Why math? Recent research suggests that early...
James A. Riccio, Gilda Azurdia, Edith Yang, Donna Wharton-Fields, Nandita Verma, Caroline Schultz, Jocelyn Page, Frieda Molina, Cynthia Miller, Richard Hendra, Barbara S. Goldman, Stephen Freedman, Jared Smith, Mark van Dok, Natasha Piatnitskaia, Sharon Rowser, Betsy L. Tessler, Stephanie RubinoThe Social Innovation Fund ( SIF ) , an initiative enacted under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, deploys millions of dollars in public-private funds to expand effective solutions in three issue areas: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development and school support. This work seeks to create a catalog of proven approaches that can be replicated...
Richard Hendra, Cynthia Miller, Susan Scrivener, Stephen Freedman, Frieda Molina, Jocelyn Page, David Navarro, Barbara S. Goldman, Dan Bloom, John Martinez, Mark van Dok, Alexandra Pennington, Erika Lundquist, Edith YangThe federal welfare overhaul of 1996 ushered in myriad policy changes aimed at getting low-income parents off public assistance and into employment. These changes — especially cash welfare’s transformation from an entitlement into a time-limited benefit contingent on work participation — have intensified the need to help low-income families become economically self-...
JoAnn Hsueh, Virginia Knox, Desiree Principe Alderson, Barbara S. Goldman, Erika Lundquist, Charles Michalopoulos, Jocelyn Page, Sharon Rowser, Electra Small, Helen Lee, Kristen Faucetta , Meghan McCormick, Noemi AltmanThe Supporting Healthy Marriage project is the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples. Supported by the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ), the project is motivated by research that indicates that married adults...