Patricia A. Ebener

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Senior Researcher
Santa Monica Office

Education

B.A. in sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Overview

Research Focus

Selected Publications

Patricia Ebener and Beau Kilmer, Barriers to Treatment Entry: Case Studies of Applicants Approved for Admission, RAND, 2003

Patricia Ebener and Beau Kilmer, Linking Drug Users with Treatment: Admissions Counselors Describe the Barriers, RAND, 2003

Patricia Ebener and Jacob Klerman, Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1999 All-County Implementation Survey, RAND, 2001

Patricia Ebener with Jacob Klerman, et. al., Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKS in the Second Year, RAND, 2001

James N. Dertouzos and Patricia A.. Ebener, A Profile of San Bernardino County CalWORKs Caseload, RAND, 2000

Neal Halfon, Patricia A.. Ebener, Narayan Sastry, Phinney Ahn, Lauren Cherman, John Hernandez, Don Wong, Roberta Wyn, California Health Report, RAND, 2000

K. Jack Riley, Patricia Ebener, James Chiesa, Susan Turner, and Jeanne Ringel, Drug Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: Will Proposition 36 Treat or Create Problems? RAND, 2000

James N. Dertouzos, Eric V. Larson, Patricia Ebener, The Economic Cost and Implications of High-Technology Hardware Theft, RAND, 1999

Publications

Enhancing Quality Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS): A Novel Application of Translational Research Methods - 2013

Evaluating the Impact of Getting to Outcomes—Underage Drinking on Prevention Capacity and Alcohol Merchant Attitudes and Selling Behaviors - 2013

Intervening with Practitioners to Improve the Quality of Prevention: One-Year Findings Form a Randomized Trial of Assets-Getting to Outcomes - 2013

The Carrot and the Stick: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influences on Responsible Merchant Practices to Reduce Underage Drinking - 2013

Employing Continuous Quality Improvement in Community-Based Substance Abuse Programs - 2012

Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention - 2012

The Premises Is the Premise: Understanding Off- and On-Premises Alcohol Sales Outlets to Improve Environmental Alcohol Prevention Strategies - 2011

Promoting Evidence-Based Practices: The Adoption of a Prevention Support System in Community Settings - 2009

Subjective Prior Distributions for Modeling Longitudinal Continuous Outcomes with Non-Ignorable Dropout - 2009

Technical Assistance as a Prevention Capacity-Building Tool: A Demonstration Using the Getting to Outcomes Framework - 2009

Do Dimensions of Therapeutic Community Treatment Predict Retention and Outcomes? - 2008

The Getting to Outcomes Demonstration and Evaluation: an Illustration of the Prevention Support System - 2008

Are Prisoner Characteristics Associated with Therapeutic Community Treatment Process? - 2007

Getting To Outcomes™: 10 Steps for Achieving Results-Based Accountability - 2007

Measuring Changes in Client-Level Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community (TC) with the Dimensions of Change Instrument (DCI) - 2007

Pattern-Mixture Models for Addressing Nonignorable Nonresponse in Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Studies - 2007

Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes Among Adolescent Residential Clients - 2007

A Collaboration Between Researchers and Practitioners to Improve Care for Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment - 2006

Getting To Outcomes™: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention - 2006

The Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument - 2006

Developing a Community Science Research Agenda for Building Community Capacity for Effective Preventive Interventions - 2005

Research-practice Partners Assess Their First Joint Project - 2005

Getting to Outcomes: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Preventive Interventions - 2004

How Important Are Client Characteristics to Understanding Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community? - 2004

Prevalence and Characteristics of Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment - 2004

Trauma Exposure and Retention in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment - 2004

An Evaluation of Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Juvenile Probationers at Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles - 2003

An Evaluation of Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Juvenile Probationers at Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles - 2003

Barriers to Treatment Entry: Case Studies of Applicants Approved for Admission - 2003

Linking Drug Users With Treatment: Admissions Counselors Describe the Barriers - 2003

Implementing CaLWORKS: The Need for Added Capacity - 2001

Implementing CalWORKs: The Problem of Noncompliance - 2001

Implementing CalWORKs: The Timing of Job Club - 2001

Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1999 All-County Implementation Survey - 2001

Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKs in the Second Year - 2001

A Profile of San Bernardino County CalWORKs Caseload - 2000

California Health Report - 2000

Drug Offenders and the Criminal Justice System: Will Proposition 36 Treat or Create Problems? - 2000

RAND Statewide CalWORKs Evaluation Welfare Reform in California: Design of the Impact Analysis - 2000

The Economic Costs and Implications of High-Technology Hardware Theft - 1999

Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey - 1999

Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey, Appendix - 1999

Drug Policies and Harms: A Conceptual Framework - 1998

Employment of TANF Participants in San Bernardino County: A Profile of the Counties Caseload and Implications for CalWorks Service Delivery - 1998

An Experimental Evaluation of the Phoenix Repeat Offender Program - 1996

Describing DAWN's dominion - 1996

Drug-abusing Homeless Clients in California's Substance Abuse Treatment System - 1996

Building a Data and Analysis Infrastructure to Support Substance Abuse Policy Decisionmaking: A Strategic Plan - 1995

Compendium of Existing Surveys and Data Sets on Alcohol and Other Drug Use and Consequences in California - 1994

Impact of Substance Abuse Problems in California: How Do Counties Vary? - 1994

Improving Data and Analysis to Support National Drug Abuse Policy — Main Report - 1994

Patterns of drug use - 1994

Prevalence and Impact of Alcohol and Drugs: California Versus the Nation - 1994

Prevalence of Alcohol and Drug Use in California's Household Population, 1988-1991: Analysis of the California Subsample from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse - 1994

Federal Databases for Use in Drug Policy Research: A Catalogue for Data Users - 1993

Improving Data and Analysis to Support National Substance Abuse Policy - 1993

Private Dispute Resolution in the Banking Industry - 1993

Substance Abuse Problems and Programs in Newark: A Needs Assessment for Newark's Fighting Back Initiative - 1993

Cocaine: The First Decade - 1992

Accidental Injury Compensation in the United States - 1991

Compensation for Accidental Injuries: Research Design and Methods - 1991

Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States: Executive Summary - 1991

Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States - 1991

Criminal Justice Policies and Outcomes Database User's Manual - 1991

Predicting Criminal Justice Outcomes: What Matters? - 1991

Aviation Accident Litigation - 1989

Litigant Perceptions of Legal Procedures: What Do Litigants Want From the Tort System? - 1989

The Perception of Justice: Tort Litigants' Views of Trial, Court-Annexed Arbitration, and Judicial Settlement Conferences - 1989

Alternative Adjudication: An Evaluation of the New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program - 1988

Aviation Accident Litigation Survey: Data Collection Forms - 1988

Costs and Compensation Paid in Aviation Accident Litigation - 1988

Executive Summaries of the Aviation Accident Study - 1988

The Legal and Economic Consequences of Wrongful Termination - 1988

The New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program: Alternative Adjudication? - 1988

Wrongful Termination: What are the Consequences of Recent Legal Changes? - 1988

Asbestos in the Courts: The Challenge of Mass Toxic Torts - 1985

Court-Annexed Arbitration: The National Picture - 1985

Managing the Unmanageable: A History of Civil Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court - 1984

Variation in Asbestos Litigation Compensation and Expenses - 1984

Codebook for Self-Report Data from the 1978 RAND Survey of Prison and Jail Inmates - 1983

Costs of Asbestos Litigation - 1983

Survey of Prison and Jail Inmates: Background and Method - 1982

Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory - 1981

Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory: Executive Summary - 1981

Quality of Prisoner Self-Reports: Arrest and Conviction Response Errors - 1981