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MDRC is evaluating innovative strategies to improve preventive and routine health care services, health-related behavior, and health outcomes for low-income people, adults with multiple chronic conditions, and families with young children.

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Impacts of Home Visiting During the Pandemic

Home visiting programs, which improve children’s development and strengthen caregivers’ and families’ well-being, faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines a program that provided psychotherapeutic, parent-child services during the pandemic and the effects of delivering those services online or in a hybrid format at that time.

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Costs of Evidence-Based Early Childhood Home Visiting

Home visiting programs aim to support the healthy development of infants and toddlers in families with low incomes. This report presents the findings from a study that estimated the cost of providing home visiting services.

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The Accelerated Benefits Demonstration and Evaluation Project

Impacts on Health and Employment at Twelve Months

This demonstration tested the effects of earlier access to health care coverage and related services for new Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries. After one year, the program increased health care use, reduced reported unmet medical needs, and modestly improved health and functioning. It also increased job prep and search activities but did not raise employment levels.

Final Report on the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Coordinated Care Pilot Program

Managing Health Care for Medicaid Recipients with Disabilities

This program aimed to improve the quality of health care while reducing Medicaid costs by helping individuals use appropriate care that would reduce hospital admissions and emergency department visits. Like a similar pilot run by Colorado Access, which is described in a separate report, it had little effect on health care use.

Improving Contraceptive Options Now

This infographic describes the Improving Contraceptive Options Now (ICON) demonstration, which is assisting primary care health clinics to better serve patients’ family planning needs by offering women a broader range of effective contraceptive options, including long-acting reversible contraception.

Applied Behavioral Coalition (ABC) Focus Area: Child Care and Early Education High School Two-Generation Programs Corrections and Reentry Health Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Children and Schools Intervention: Transitional Jobs/Subsidized Employment, Case Management, Career & Technical Education, Behavioral Interventions, Employment Services	Bridging Access to Benefits and Care (BABC) Focus Area: Health Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Case Management Locations: New York	HomePath Focus Area: Health Housing/Community Initiatives Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Coordinated Care/Care Management
Child First Focus Area: Health Two-Generation Programs Population: Families Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Home Visiting Locations: Connecticut, North Carolina	The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation, Long-Term Follow-Up Focus Area: Health Two-Generation Programs Population: Families Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Home Visiting	Improving Contraceptive Options Now (ICON) Focus Area: Health Population: Young Adults Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Counseling/Advising
Children’s Institute, Inc. Focus Area: Health Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Population: Young Adults Intervention: Counseling/Advising Locations: California	The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE)-Strong Start Focus Area: Health Family Relationships Population: Families Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Home Visiting Locations: California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin	Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) Focus Area: Health Two-Generation Programs Population: Families Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Home Visiting
Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation Focus Area: Health Two-Generation Programs Population: Families Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Home Visiting

Childhood Asthma Scan Focus Area: Health Population: Children and Schools Families Populations with Low Incomes	Accelerated Benefits Demonstration Focus Area: Disability Health Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Coordinated Care/Care Management	Coordinated Care for High-Cost Medicaid Recipients with Disabilities Focus Area: Health Disability Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Coordinated Care/Care Management, Telephonic Services Locations: Colorado, New York
TANF/SSI Disability Transition Project Focus Area: Disability Health Welfare Reform Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Case Management, Employment Services	Using Financial Incentives to Encourage Weight Loss Focus Area: Health Financial Incentives Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Counseling/Advising, Financial Incentives Locations: California, New York	Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Focus Area: Child Care and Early Education Two-Generation Programs Corrections and Reentry Health Population: Populations with Barriers to Employment Intervention: Telephonic Services, Transitional Jobs/Subsidized Employment, Case Management, Employment Services Locations: Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
California Works for Better Health Focus Area: Housing/Community Initiatives Health Population: Populations with Low Incomes Intervention: Employment Services Locations: California

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