Communications and Development Associate

Eve Wentworth

Communications and Development Associate

Ms. Wentworth has provided technical writing and editing services for a number of complex technical reports and policy manuals; these include the child welfare policy manual for the State of New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services, the final reports for a series of evaluations of specialty court and Department of Corrections projects in Alaska, an assessment of services for sexually abused children for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, and a number of reports for Maine Medical Center’s Department of Vocational Services. During a statewide performance audit of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in 2008, Ms. Wentworth provided administrative, data support and editorial services, including scheduling interviews and making follow-up calls with study personnel and survey respondents, providing extensive data entry support for this large-scale audit, conducting a literature search, and editing of the final technical report.

Ms. Wentworth routinely interviews key stakeholders in support of quarterly reporting for the Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network (CESN), a multi-agency workgroup that tracks substance abuse trends as part of the firm’s SPF SIG grant evaluation. She has helped to facilitate and record feedback from focus groups for projects involving consumers with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders for the Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), youth in transition for the Maine Medical Center, and drug court participants for an ongoing evaluation of Maine’s adult drug courts. Ms. Wentworth has performed case reviews and evaluations for a variety of projects, including those conducted of various specialty court projects for the Maine Judicial Branch and the child abuse hotline for New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services. In 2008, she was part of the field team which performed on-site case reviews to ensure eligibility determinations were correctly made for Georgia’s Title IV-E Program Improvement Plan.

Ms. Wentworth completed coursework in Journalism and Sociology at the University of Maine at Orono, Cultural Studies at the University of London and East London University, UK, and business and writing at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a data analyst in the health insurance industry, spent more than a decade coordinating AIDS clinical trials research at the Harvard School of Public Health, and has worked as a freelance technical writer and editor for over twenty years. She is a Notary Public for the State of Maine.

Grant Writing

From Kanas Grant Writer, Reviewer, Evaluator Proposal – August 2013

Eve Wentworth

Since joining Hornby Zeller Associates, Inc. in 2005, Eve Wentworth has provided administrative support and research assistance to project teams throughout the organization. In addition to serving as primary administrative contact for HZA’s Maine office, she performs analysis, technical writing, editing and quality assurance for a wide range of projects. Ms. Wentworth has provided technical writing and editing services for a number of complex technical reports and policy manuals; these include the final reports for a series of evaluations of specialty court and Department of Corrections projects in Alaska, an assessment of services for sexually abused children for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, and a number of reports for Maine Medical Center’s Department of Vocational Services, Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the State of Maine Judicial Branch as well as grant proposals, such as those written for a number of Maine state agencies. During a statewide performance audit of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in 2008, Ms. Wentworth provided administrative, data support and editorial services, including scheduling interviews and making follow-up calls with study personnel and survey respondents, providing extensive data entry support for this large-scale audit, conducting a literature search, and editing of the final technical report.

Ms. Wentworth has helped to facilitate and record feedback from focus groups for projects involving consumers with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders for the Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), youth in transition for the Maine Medical Center, and drug court participants for an ongoing evaluation of Maine’s adult drug courts. Ms. Wentworth has performed case reviews and evaluations for a variety of projects, including those conducted for various specialty court projects for the Maine Judicial Branch and the child abuse hotline for New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services. For a project which HZA is now embarking on to support Colorado’s Department of Human Services’ administrative cost claiming process, Ms. Wentworth will finalize all training and resource materials, including online web-training applications for that State’s random moment sampling process.

She is often called upon to develop the checklists for proposals which HZA submits for its own behalf as well as for those it prepares for its clients to submit. Ms. Wentworth uses the checklists to ensure the proposals are complete and satisfy the prescribed requirements of the Request for Proposals, i.e., the detailed instructions, while finalizing the proposals for submission.

Needs Assessment

From Rhode Island Victims’ Services Programs Needs Assessment & Gap Analysis Proposal – March 2016

Eve Wentworth, Editorial and Graphic Design Services

Ms. Wentworth routinely interviews key stakeholders and has helped to facilitate and record feedback from focus groups for employees of Maine’s Office of Children and Families as part of an organizational assessment, and drug court participants for an evaluation of Maine’s adult and family drug courts. Ms. Wentworth has performed case reviews and evaluations for a variety of projects, including those conducted of various specialty court projects for the Maine Judicial Branch. Ms. Wentworth completed coursework in Journalism and Sociology at the University of Maine at Orono, Cultural Studies at the University of London and East London University, UK, and business and writing at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a data analyst in the health insurance industry, spent more than a decade coordinating AIDS clinical trials research at the Harvard School of Public Health, and has worked as a freelance technical writer, editor, and graphic designer for over twenty-five years. She is a Notary Public for the State of Maine.

Performance Evaluation/Outcome Measurement

From Florida Operational Process Improvement Review, Florida Abuse Hotline Proposal – April 2010

Eve Wentworth, Program and Administrative Support

Since joining Hornby Zeller Associates, Inc. in 2005, Eve Wentworth has provided administrative support and research assistance to project teams throughout the organization. In addition to serving as primary administrative contact for HZA’s Maine office, she performs analysis, technical writing, editing and quality assurance for a wide range of projects. Ms. Wentworth has performed case reviews and evaluations for projects, including those conducted for specialty courts in Maine and the review of the child abuse Hotline in New Jersey. In 2008, she was part of the field team which performed on-site case reviews of IV-E eligibility determinations in Georgia. Ms. Wentworth completed coursework in Journalism and Sociology at the University of Maine at Orono, Cultural Studies at the University of London and East London University, UK, and business and writing at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a data analyst in the health insurance industry and spent more than a decade coordinating AIDS clinical trials research at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Program Design/Implementation

From Minnesota NYTD Implementation Proposal – June 2010

Ms. Wentworth will provide research support to all of the team members.

From Iowa NYTD Baseline and Follow-up Population Data Collection Proposal – March 2010

Eve Wentworth, Administrative Support

Ms. Wentworth interviewed key stakeholders in support of quarterly reporting for the Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network (CESN), a multi-agency workgroup that tracks substance abuse trends as part of the firm’s SPF SIG grant evaluation in Maine. Ms. Wentworth has performed case reviews and evaluations for a variety of projects, including those conducted of various specialty court projects for the Maine Judicial Branch and the child abuse hotline for New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services, where she listened to calls to the state’s hotline to ensure policy requirements were met and call-taker actions were appropriate and professional. In 2008, she was part of the field team which performed on-site case reviews to ensure eligibility determinations were correctly made and documentation was available to support federally eligible determinations as part of Georgia’s Title IV-E Program Improvement Plan action plan. Where automated tools were not used to collect data documenting time caseworkers have available for casework, Ms. Wentworth conducted telephone interviews with child welfare staff for a number of workload studies.

Program Evaluation

From Vermont Children and Families Community Response Pilot Project Evaluator Proposal – December 2017

Eve Wentworth

Since joining Hornby Zeller Associates, Inc. in 2005, Ms. Wentworth has provided analysis, technical writing, editing, design and quality assurance services for a wide range of projects. In addition to her work producing final reports and related materials, Ms. Wentworth frequently works with the firm’s information technology and data teams to assist in the development, design and testing of web-based surveys and data collection tools, end-user interfaces, web content and related products. As a Communications and Development Associate, Ms. Wentworth has provided technical writing, editing, and graphic design services for a number of complex technical reports and related materials. These include the Maine Statewide Human Trafficking Needs Assessment report, the Mississippi Department of Human Services Evaluation of the Healthy Homes Mississippi Fatherhood Initiative, Maine’s THRIVE evaluation, materials related to the Trauma Informed Agency Assessment (TIAA) for KidsPeace, evaluations of Home Visiting programs in Maine and West Virginia, and the final reports for a series of evaluations of specialty court and Department of Corrections projects in Alaska and Maine.

Ms. Wentworth completed coursework in Journalism and Sociology at the University of Maine, Cultural Studies at the University of London and East London University, UK, and business and writing at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a data analyst in the health insurance industry, spent more than a decade coordinating AIDS pharmaceutical clinical trials research at the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, served as managing editor and copy chief of RESCUE, a national-circulation magazine, and has worked as a freelance technical writer, editor, illustrator and graphic designer for over twenty-five years.

From SAMHSA IDIQ Proposal – December 2016

Editor: Eve Wentworth

Since joining Hornby Zeller Associates, Inc. in 2005, Eve Wentworth has provided analysis, technical writing, editing and quality assurance services for a wide range of projects. In addition to her work producing final reports and related materials, Ms. Wentworth frequently works with the firm’s information technology and data teams to assist in the development, design and testing of web-based surveys and data collection tools, end-user interfaces, web content and related products. As a Communications and Development Associate, Ms. Wentworth has provided technical writing, editing, and graphic design services for a number of complex technical reports and related materials; these include the Maine Statewide Human Trafficking Needs Assessment report, the Mississippi Department of Human Services Evaluation of the Healthy Homes Mississippi Fatherhood Initiative, Maine’s THRIVE evaluation, materials related to the Trauma Informed Agency Assessment (TIAA) for KidsPeace, evaluations of Home Visiting programs in Maine and West Virginia, and the final reports for a series of evaluations of specialty court and Department of Corrections projects in Alaska and Maine. Ms. Wentworth completed coursework in Journalism and Sociology at the University of Maine at Orono, Cultural Studies at the University of London and East London University, UK, and business and writing at the Harvard Extension School. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a data analyst in the health insurance industry, spent more than a decade coordinating AIDS clinical trials research at the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, served as managing editor and copy chief of RESCUE, a national-circulation magazine, and has worked as a freelance technical writer, editor, illustrator and graphic designer for over twenty-five years.