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Acknowledgments
This report would not have been possible without the cooperation of staff in the welfare departments of all fifty states and the District of Columbia, who provided detailed information on each state’s time limit policy as well as quantitative data on the number of families affected by time limits. Elaine Ryan and the American Public Human Services Association played a key role by coordinating state reviews of the survey instrument and facilitating contact with the states.
Special thanks are owed to the five states that agreed to participate in the site visit component of the project. Central office and local staff in those states patiently and candidly discussed their experiences with time limits, as did representatives of local advocacy groups. There is not enough space to mention everyone who contributed, but we gratefully acknowledge the assistance rendered in the following states by:
Georgia: Juanita Blount-Clark and Sandra Mack of the Georgia Department of Human Resources; Nancy Baer, Marie Elder, and Marcia Culbreath of the Fulton County Department of Family and Children Services.
Massachusetts: Todd Maio, Margaret O’Brien, Jules Godes, Jack Coravan, Korin Christianson, Matthew Kanan, Maryalice Burke, Rosalie Cuticchia, and Michael Quinn, of the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.
Louisiana: Ann Williamson, Alma Keller, Jan Reynolds, and Dan Truman, of the Louisiana Department of Social Services.
South Carolina: Linda Martin, Marilyn Edelhoch, Alyce Player, and Lisa Carlyle, of the South Carolina Department of Social Services; Mamie Johnson of the Charleston County Department of Social Services; and LaVaughn Nesmith of the Orangeburg County Department of Social Services.
New York City: Seth Diamond, Pat Smith, Swati Desai, Mark Hoover, Delroy Lin-ton, and Margaret Youngblood of the New York City Human Resources Administration.
Staff in Connecticut, Florida, and Ohio also reviewed the draft report because those states were also included in the discussion of time-limit implementation (by virtue of their participation in other MDRC studies). Thanks to Mark Heuschkel (Connecticut), Jennifer Lange (Miami, Florida), and Jim Rohn (Cuyahoga County, Ohio).
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conceived and funded the project. Staff in ACF and the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) drafted the state survey, reviewed the draft report, and provided ongoing support and assistance. Special thanks to ACF staff Howard Rolston, Karl Koerper, Ann Burek, and the project officer, Michael Dubinsky. In ASPE, thanks to Don Winstead and Elizabeth Lower-Basch.
Several researchers whose work is cited in Chapters 5 and 6 reviewed a draft of those chapters and offered useful comments. Thanks to David Fein and Erik Beecroft (Abt Associates), Anne Gordon (Mathematica Policy Research), Mary Jane Taylor (University of Utah), Gloria Nagle (Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance), and Claudia Colton (Case Western Reserve University). Phil Richardson of MAXIMUS not only reviewed a draft but also provided unpublished data to help line up the results in Chapter 6. We are grateful for his help.
At MDRC, Gordon Berlin, David Butler, Tom Brock, and Charles Michalopoulos provided valuable comments on a draft of the report. Eric Rhodes participated in several of the site visits, drafted some of the state profiles in Appendix B, and helped prepare background materials for the state survey. Sue Scrivener led the South Carolina site visit, and Richard Hendra reanalyzed data from the Connecticut and Florida evaluations for Chapters 5 and 6. Tara Cullen and Melissa Velez assisted with fact checking. Bob Weber edited the report, and Stephanie Cowell did the word processing.
At The Lewin Group, we recognize with special gratitude the work of Mark Nowak, Stephanie Laud, Plamen Nikolov, and Anh Nguyen. Without their efforts the analysis and presentation of the survey findings would not have been possible. Michael Fishman reviewed a draft of the report and offered helpful comments.
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