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Monday, July 31, 2000

Opening Session

Welfare Reform: Another Perspective on Unfinished Business & New
Challenges

Keynote Address: Dr. Ronald Haskins, Staff Director

Subcommittee on Human Resources

Ways and Means Committee, U.S.

House of Representatives

Keynote Address: Dr. Wendell Primus, Director for Income

Security, Center on Budget & Policy

Priorities, Washington, D.C.

Concurrent Session I

A: New Tools for a New Era

Using Business Intelligence Tools to Analyze Welfare Data: The Yellow Highlighters of the 21st
Century

Scott Gall and Roger Ward, Hamilton County Department of Human Services, Cincinnati, OH

Bringing it to the Desktop: Assessing Welfare Reform Performance Over the Web

Dean Duncan, Kimberly Flair, Rosemary Hallberg, Hye-Chung Monica Kum, Jordan Institute for
Families, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Suzanne Marshall,
Economic Independence Services, North Carolina Division of Social Services

Community Demographics Every Year for Strategic Planning: Uses of the American

Community Survey for Welfare Research

Cynthia M. Taeuber, Bureau of the Census and Jacob France Center, University of

Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, David Stevens, Jacob France Center and Julia Lane,

Urban Institute and Bureau of the Census

B: Children, Child Welfare & Welfare Reform

Assessing Child Well-Being and Welfare Reform

Laurie Deppman, Washington State Department of Health

Impact of Welfare Reform on Foster Care and Child Welfare: A Case Study

Kathleen Wells and Shenyang Guo, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case

Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

The Impacts of Welfare Reform on Child Maltreatment in Delaware

David J. Fein and Wang Lee, Abt Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland

C: Mental Health Issues in Low Income Families: Implications

for Welfare to Work Policy and Management

Prevalence of Depression in Low-income Women and Its Relation to Employment and

Welfare Receipt

Juliana Blome and Mary Clare Lennon, Research Forum on Children Families and the New
Federalism, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), New York, New York

Treatment of Depression and Health Insurance Status: Implications for Welfare to Work

Kevin English and Mary Clare Lennon, Research Forum, NCCP, New York, NY

Services for Families with Parental Mental Health, Substance Abuse or Domestic Violence:

Emerging Program and Policy Strategies

Jane Knitzer, NCCP, New York, New York

Discussant: Frederica Kramer, Senior Consultant, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

Moderator: Barbara Blum

D: Special Populations

Transitions from AFDC to SSI Prior to Welfare Reform

David Wittenburg, David Stapleton, Michael Fishman and Gina Livermore, The Lewin Group, Falls
Church, Virginia

Understanding the TANF Child-Only Caseload: Policies, Composition and Characteristics in Three
States

Mary Farrell and Michael Fishman, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, Virginia

E: Client Sanctions Under TANF

State Implementation of Client Sanctions Under TANF

Steven Zerebecki and Scott Hutchison, DHHS Office of Inspector General, Office of Evaluation &
Inspections, San Francisco, CA

Welfare Reform: State Sanction Policies and Number of Families Affected

Clarita Mrena and Patricia Elston, U.S. General Accounting Office, San Francisco

San Bernardino County's Sanctioned Homecall Project

Brian Pickering and Kathy Watkins, County of San Bernardino Human Services System

F: Potpourri

Tracking Progress towards Self-Sufficiency: A Proposed Measure and Initial Report of CalWORKs
Recipient Status during the Early Stages of Welfare Reform

Rex S. Green and Richard Speiglman, Public Health Institute, Cupertino, California

Barriers to Self-Sufficiency across Racial and Ethnic Groups: The Status of Current and Former
Welfare Recipients

Delia Olufokunbi, Ph.D.,Caliber Associates, Fairfax, VA and Roger A. Boothroyd, Ph.D.,Dep't of
Mental Health Law & Policy, Florida Mental Health Institute, University

of South Florida

A Survey of the Impact of Welfare Reform on Homeless Shelters in Missouri

Larry W. Kreuger, Ph.D. School of Social Work, University of Missouri-Columbia and

John J. Stretch, Ph.D., School of Social Services, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO

Luncheon Address

How are Families on the ReservationDr. Eddie Brown

Faring Under Welfare Reform?

Concurrent Session II

A: Child Support: The Rest of the Story

The Effect of Child Support on Welfare Exits and Reentries

Chien-Chung Huang, James P. Kunz and Irwin Garfinkel, School of Social Work, Columbia
University, New York, New York

Improving the Well-Being of Children by Focusing on Low Income Non-Custodial Parents

in Maryland

Wendell Primus, Ph.D., Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.

Gaining Access to One's Children: Findings from an Evaluation of a Visitation Program

for Noncustodial Parents

Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D., Families First, Atlanta, Georgia

B: Housing-Based Employment Programs: Exploiting the Housing/Welfare

Connection to Promote Self-Sufficiency

Success in the New Welfare Environment: An Assessment of Approaches to Work in

HUD's Employment and Training Initiatives

Michael Fishman and Karen Gardiner, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA

Designing a Family-Centered, Housing-Based Employment Program for Welfare Families

Frederica D. Kramer, Welfare Information Network, Washington, DC

Discussant: Stephen Yank, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning, Development & Research,
U.S. Dep't of Housing & Urban Development, Washington, D.C.

C: Welfare Reform: Regional & Rural Variations

The Interaction of Welfare-Use and Employment Dynamics in Rural and Agricultural California
Counties

Henry Brady, Ph.D., Fredric Gey and Mary Sprague, Survey Research Center, University of
California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Is Welfare to Work Working: Local Officeholders' Perspectives on Rural Welfare Reform

Barry L. Tadlock, Ph.D., Benjamin Pearson-Nelson, Ann Tickamyer, Debra Henderson and Julie
White, Rural Welfare Reform Project, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Accounting for Regional Variations in Wage Rates

Jeff Wallace, Ph.D., Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Center for Manpower

Studies, Memphis, Tennessee

D: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Implementation

under Title XIX and Title XXI: An Overview

Transitioning Children from Title XIX to Title XXI: Assessing Which Strategies Really Work

Elizabeth G. Serow, Ph.D., MPH, The Lawton & Rhea Chiles Center, University of South
Florida, Tallahassee; Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., Institute for Child Health Policy, University of
Florida-Gainesville; and Sarah Sherraden, RN, MSN, Florida KidCare Outreach, Florida Dep't of
Health, Tallahassee, Florida

HCFA's SCHIP Evaluation

Margo Rosenbach, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

Charting New Courses for Children's Health Insurance: States' Early Implementation
Experiences Under SCHIP

Ian Hill, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

E: Issues in Out-of-Home Placement

Placement Stability for Children in Foster Care: An Eight Year Longitudinal Analysis

Daniel Webster, Ph.D., Barbara Needell, School of Social Welfare, University of California at
Berkeley and Richard P. Barth, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

A Strategy to Predict the Future: Children in Need of Out of Home Placement

Roger Ward, Hamilton County Department of Human Services, Cincinnati, OH and

Bill Haffey, SPSS

Data Collection Issues and Preliminary Results from the Evaluation of the Illinois

Subsidized Guardianship Demonstration

George Gabel, Westat, Rockville, Maryland

F: Small N's, Big Insights?

A Qualitative Examination of Shifting Dependency Targets of Former Rural Welfare Mothers

Suzie T. Cashwell, Ph.D., Division of Social Work, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia and C.
Aaron McNeece, Ph.D., Institute for Health and Human Services Research, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida

Health Effects of Welfare Reform in an Urban Setting

Usha Ranji & Margie Schaps, Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, Chicago, IL

Evaluation of the Health School Meals Initiative in Texas Private Schools and Residential

Child Care Institutions

Mahassen Ahmad, Ph.D., Texas Department of Human Services

Concurrent Session III

A: Welfare Reform: Reports on Outcomes

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Families

Mary E. Summers, RN, Ph.D., Center for Health and Human Services, College

of Health & Human Services, Joan Dworkin, MSW, Ph.D., and Candelaria Perez-Davidson,
Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento

Assessing Work First: What Challenges Face Long-term Welfare Recipients? Report 2

from the Assessing Work First series

Alice Liu and Anjali Srivastava, Legal Services of New Jersey, Edison, New Jersey

B: Work And Then What?

How Does the Industry of Employment Affect Earnings Growth and Job Retention? An

Analysis of a Work-First Approach to Welfare Reform

Wang Lee and Erik Beecroft, Abt Associates, Bethesda, Maryland

Employment Retention: TANF Entry and Exit Cohorts and Factors Affecting Wage

Levels and Job Stability

Dean Duncan, Michelle Dylan and Kim Flair, Jordan Institute for Families, School of

Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Helping TANF Recipients Stay Employed: Evidence from the GAPS Initiative

Robert G. Wood and Diane Paulsell, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ

C: Methods Seminar

Introduction to Event History Analysis: Survival Curves, Kaplan-Meier Estimates and Cox
Regression Models

Barbara Needell, MSW, Ph.D, and Daniel Webster, MSW, Ph.D.,Center for Social Services
Research, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California

D: Welfare Reform: Urban Outcomes and Issues

Before and After Welfare Reform: The Condition of New York City's Families

Marcia K. Meyers, Wendy Nadich, Irwin Garfinkel, Chris Herbst, with Laura Peck, School of
Social Work, Columbia University, New York, New York

Can Welfare Reform Make a Difference in a Large Urban Setting? Findings from the Los
Angeles Jobs-First GAIN Evaluation

Stephen Freedman, Lisa Gennetian, Jean Knab, David Navarro, Manpower

Demonstration Research Corp., New York, New York

The Role of Public Transit in Moving Persons from Welfare to Work: The Case of

Portland, Oregon

Thomas W. Sanchez, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University, Portland,

Oregon

E: Advancing States' Child Indicators Initiatives

This panel brings together state policy-makers and administrators who are participating in the USDHHS/ASPE
project, Advancing Child Indicators Initiatives. The overall aims are to promote state efforts to develop and
monitor indicators of the health and well-being of children as welfare reform and other policy changes occur;
and help institutionalize the use of indicator data in state and local policy work. Representatives from the 14
participating states will discuss their work and progress over the past two years. Emphasis will be placed on the
strategic use of indicators to measure progress, influence policy change, communicate change, and
institutionalize and maintain state investments in early care and childhood at the state and local level.

Mairead Reidy, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago

Janice Treakle, Maryland Department of Education

Claudia Shanley, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Elizabeth Tobin Tyler, Rhode Island Kidscount

Chris Johnson, Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University

F: Potpourri on Vulnerable Populations

Overview of HCFA Research Activities on Medical Assistance and Vulnerable Populations

David Baugh and Penny Pine, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, MD

Health Conditions, Utilization and Expenditures of Children in Foster Care

Margo Rosenbach, Ph.D., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Laura Feig Radel, MPP, Office
of the Ass't Secretary for Planning and Evalution, U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Services,
Washington, D.C.