Susan Zief

Biographic Data

ID5763771
NAMESusan Zief
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMEZief
SIGNATUREZIEF S
AFFILIATIONSMathematica Policy Research
ORCID0000-0002-9897-414X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • How accurately can we predict repeat teen pregnancy based on social ecological factors

    Jessica F Harding, Betsy Keating et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Cited by: 1

    Many factors at the individual, relationship, family, and community or environmental levels could predict repeat teen pregnancies or births, but research on certain factors is limited. In addition, few studies have examined whether these factors can accurately predict whether teen mothers will have a repeat pregnancy. This study examined theoretically selected predictors of repeat teen pregnancy among 945 pregnant and parenting teens ( M age = 17…

  • Roadmap for Effective School-Based Practices to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth

    Open AccessSubuhi Asheer, Susan Zief et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    Staff and funders interested in improving outcomes for young parents in school could use the experience of New Heights and the key practices that were critical to its success as a guide: (1) ensure that the program is well defined but can be tailored to the needs of schools and students, (2) engage community partners to bring services to participants, (3) hire and train the right staff who are committed to "do whatever it takes," (4) actively cul…

  • Implementing Case Management with Positive Youth Development to Empower Young Mothers in California

    Open AccessSubuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    Integrating the PYD framework into case management systems may foster youth self-sufficiency and resiliency. However, the rigid structure of the program was often challenging to implement in practice. Organizations interested in implementing prescribed case management approaches should consider allowing opportunities for flexibility in implementation and providing more detailed preservice training to prepare staff for real-world implementation

  • Putting Rigorous Evidence Within Reach

    Open AccessSusan Zief, John Deke et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    The New Heights evaluation is a concrete example of how a small program with a modest evaluation budget can obtain evidence of impact. Collaborative relationships between researchers and program staff can enable these informative studies to flourish

  • Impacts of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced with Content on Healthy Birth Spacing

    Open AccessSusan Zief, John Deke et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    These findings are primarily favorable and consistent with the program content and goals. Smaller than anticipated sample sizes due to recruitment challenges increased the chances for random error to affect the ability to detect statistically significant differences on many of our other outcomes; Bayesian posterior probabilities can therefore aid in interpreting the impact estimates. More research of this promising model is warranted

  • Supporting Expectant and Parenting Teens

    Open AccessJessica F Harding, Susan Zief et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    Until recently, federal programs had not explicitly focused on improving the outcomes of highly vulnerable teen parents. Established in 2010, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund (PAF) aims to improve the health, social, educational, and economic outcomes for expectant and parenting teens and young adults, their children, and their families, through providing grants to states and tribes. This article introduces the Maternal and Child Health Journal supp…

  • Meeting the Multifaceted Needs of Expectant and Parenting Young Families Through the Pregnancy Assistance Fund

    Open AccessArt Margolis, Amy Margolis et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

    Expectant and parenting teens and young adults in the PAF program demonstrated success in meeting their educational goals and preventing repeat unintended pregnancies. In addition, the staff who implemented the PAF programs learned many lessons for how to enhance programs and services to have the best outcomes for expectant and parenting young families, including creating partnerships to meet the multifaceted needs of teen parents and using evide…

  • Challenges and Lessons Learned From Providing Large-Scale Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Adolescent Pregnancy Evidence Base

    Jean Knab, Russell Cole et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Cited by: 2References: 6

    The lessons learned from these challenges laid the groundwork for a second a round of evaluation TA with a second cohort of TPP grantees that began in summer 2015

  • A Framework for Evaluation Technical Assistance

    Susan Zief, Susan Goerlich Zief et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Cited by: 4References: 2

    The primary goal of the evaluation technical assistance (TA) was to help the grantees and their evaluators produce rigorous evidence of program effectiveness that would meet the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) evidence review standards

  • Establishing an Evaluation Technical Assistance Contract to Support Studies in Meeting the US Department of Health and Human Services Evidence Standards

    Russell Cole, Russell P Cole et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Cited by: 2References: 4

    This article highlights the results of the Office of Adolescent Healthâ€TMs (OAH) substantial investment in rigorous evaluations of teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs