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Putting Rigorous Evidence Within Reach: Lessons Learned from the New Heights Evaluation by Zief, Susan, Deke, John, Neild, Ruth

“…Purpose This article uses an evaluation of New Heights, a school-based program for pregnant and parenting teens in the District of Columbia Public Schools, to…”
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The Impact of Making Proud Choices! on Youth's Sexual Health Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors by Cole, Russell, Neelan, Theresa Schulte, Langan, Andrew, Keating, Betsy, Walzer, Jennifer, Asheer, Subuhi, Zief, Susan

“…To estimate the effect of the Making Proud Choices! (MPC) curriculum, one of the most popular evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention curricula being…”
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The Impact of Brief Interventions With Condom Demonstrations on Youth: A Systematic Review by Neelan, Theresa, Knab, Jean, Forrester, Emily J., Chesnut, Kelsey, Kelly, Kevin, Zief, Susan

“…This review examined whether there is evidence that brief interventions with condom demonstration lessons have impacts on behavioral and nonbehavioral outcomes…”
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How Accurately Can We Predict Repeat Teen Pregnancy Based on Social Ecological Factors? by Harding, Jessica F., Keating, Betsy, Walzer, Jennifer, Xing, Fei, Zief, Susan, Gao, Jessica

“…Many factors at the individual, relationship, family, and community or environmental levels could predict repeat teen pregnancies or births, but research on…”
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Roadmap for Effective School-Based Practices to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth: Lessons from the New Heights Program in Washington, DC by Asheer, Subuhi, Zief, Susan, Neild, Ruth

“…Introduction New Heights is a voluntary school-based program that provides a well-defined system of supports for expectant and parenting students in…”
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Implementing Case Management with Positive Youth Development to Empower Young Mothers in California by Asheer, Subuhi, Keating, Betsy, Crowley, Jacqueline, Zief, Susan

“…Objectives With funding from the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Division (MCAH) of California redesigned its existing…”
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A Systematic Review of Programs to Promote Aspects of Teen Parents’ Self-sufficiency: Supporting Educational Outcomes and Healthy Birth Spacing by Harding, Jessica F., Knab, Jean, Zief, Susan, Kelly, Kevin, McCallum, Diana

“…Introduction Expectant and parenting teens experience many challenges to achieving self-sufficiency and promoting their children’s healthy development. Teen…”
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Supporting Expectant and Parenting Teens: New Evidence to Inform Future Programming and Research by Harding, Jessica F., Zief, Susan, Farb, Amy, Margolis, Amy

“…Until recently, federal programs had not explicitly focused on improving the outcomes of highly vulnerable teen parents. Established in 2010, the Pregnancy…”
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Impacts of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced with Content on Healthy Birth Spacing by Zief, Susan, Deke, John, Burkander, Paul, Langan, Andrew, Asheer, Subuhi

“…Objectives This study sought to determine the impact of Healthy Families Healthy Futures (HFHF) enhanced with Steps to Success (STS). HFHF is a structured home…”
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Challenges and Lessons Learned From Providing Large-Scale Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Adolescent Pregnancy Evidence Base by Knab, Jean, Cole, Russell P, Zief, Susan Goerlich

“…This is the third editorial in a series of related opinion pieces. The first editorial provided a description of the Office of Adolescent Health's (OAH)…”
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A Framework for Evaluation Technical Assistance by Zief, Susan Goerlich, Knab, Jean, Cole, Russell P

“…The primary goal of the evaluation technical assistance (TA) was to help the grantees and their evaluators produce rigorous evidence of program effectiveness…”
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Establishing an Evaluation Technical Assistance Contract to Support Studies in Meeting the US Department of Health and Human Services Evidence Standards by Cole, Russell P, Zief, Susan Goerlich, Knab, Jean

“…This special issue highlights the results of the Office of Adolescent Health's (OAH) substantial investment in rigorous evaluations of teen pregnancy…”
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Meeting the Multifaceted Needs of Expectant and Parenting Young Families Through the Pregnancy Assistance Fund by Margolis, Amy, Rice, Tara, Banikya-Leaseburg, Mousumi, Person, Ann E., Clary, Elizabeth, Zief, Susan, Adamek, Katie, Harding, Jessica F.

“…Introduction The Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) program funds states and tribes to provide a wide range of services to improve health, social, educational,…”
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Impacts of After‐School Programs on Student Outcomes by Zief, Susan Goerlich, Lauver, Sherri, Maynard, Rebecca A.

“…This Campbell systematic review sought to answer the following questions with the available high quality experimental studies of programs that combined…”
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PROTOCOL: Impacts of after‐school programs on student outcomes by Zief, Susan Goerlich, Lauver, Sherri, Maynard, Rebecca A.

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A mixed -methods study of the impacts and processes of an after -school program for urban elementary youth by Zief, Susan Goerlich

“…The amount of after-school programming in the United States has grown tremendously in the last decade as increasing numbers of working parents require…”
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