Information from 2003—6th Annual Conference
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2003 Conference Agenda
| May 28, 2003 Promoting and Strengthening Healthy Marriages and Families through TANF |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome |
| 9:15 a.m. | Opening
Plenary Roundtable: Marriage and Family Research and the Future
of Welfare Evaluations Scott Stanley (University of Denver) Robert Rector (The Heritage Foundation) Isabel Sawhill (The Brookings Institution) Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University) |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions 1: Attitudes of Low-Income Families Regarding Marriage -Marriage in Oklahoma: A Statewide Survey on Marriage and
Divorce -Marriage Attitudes,
Expectations and Living Arrangements of Low-Income Families 2: Union Formation and Welfare Reform - Strengthening
Families with Children Born Out-Of-Wedlock Conceptual Framework - Union
Formation and Dissolution in Fragile Families 3: Family Structure and the Well-being of Children
and their Parents - Married and
Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Wellbeing 4: The Effects of Changes in Family Structure on
Children -The Effects of Changes in Parental Union Status on Child
Well-being - Children’s Wellbeing and Cohabitation 5: Public Policy and Program Incentives and Disincentives
for Marriage - Program Supports for Married and Two-Parent Families - The Effect of Welfare Beliefs on Family Formation Decisions |
| 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon Plenary: The Role of Research and Evaluation
in Strengthening and Promoting Healthy Marriages |
| 2:00 p.m. | Repeat of Concurrent Breakout Sessions (see above) |
| 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Plenary: Why Marriage Matters |
| May 29, 2003 Supporting the Employment, Earnings and Well-being of Low-Income Families |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Plenary: Federal, State and Local Perspectives on Excellence in Evaluation Cynthia Fagnoni,
U.S. General Accounting Office |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions 1: TANF Implementation and Its Effects on American
Indian Tribes - Welfare to Work: Monitoring Welfare Reform Outcomes for
Indian Families with Children 2: Analyzing TANF Stayers and Leavers - How Have Former Welfare Recipients fared in the Wake of
PRWORA? Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics - Steps Toward Self-Sufficiency: Characteristics and Work
Participation of TANF Recipients in 1999 3: TANF Application and Intake Diversion Under Welfare
Reform - A Study of the TANF Application Process - Who is Coming
On Welfare and Why: SCDSS’ Survey of Newly-Approved
Cases 4: Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Employing
the Hard-to-Employ - Treating Depression
in Disadvantaged Medical Patients - Barriers to Employment Among Women on TANF with a substance
abuse problem 5: Work Supports to Secure and Retain Employment - Utilizing the Workforce Development System to Support Employment
Retention and Advancement - Delivering Services to Low-Income Working Families: Policy
and Program Options |
| 12:15 p.m. | Luncheon Plenary: A Perspective on Food Assistance
Programs and Healthy Eating Douglas Besharov American Enterprise Institute and the University of Maryland |
| 1:30 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45 p.m. | Repeat of Concurrent Breakout Sessions (see above) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 p.m. | Afternoon Plenary: The Effects of Welfare Reform
on the Income of Families with Children |
| May 30, 2003 Special Topics and Research Methods |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Concurrent Breakout Sessions: 1. Welfare Reform and Child and Youth Well-Being - The Effects
of Welfare Reform on Teen Parents 2. Tools for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Faith-Based
Organizations in Welfare Service Delivery - Planning and Evaluating Faith-Based Interventions: A Framework
to Close the Theory-Practice Divide - Evaluating the Compassion Capital Fund 3. Child Care and Child Wellbeing - Care
in the Home: A Description of Family Child Care and the Experiences
of the Families and Children That Use It 4. Food Assistance and Welfare Reform - Improving Access
to Food Stamps for Low-Income Working Households - Persistence and Change in the Food Security of Families
with Children: 1997-1999 |
| 10:15 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. | Plenary: Emerging Methods in Evaluating Welfare
Reform - Using Instrumental
Variables Analysis to Learn More from Social Policy Experiments |
| 11:45 a.m. | Closing Remarks Richard Larson Maryland Department of Human Resources and the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics |