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Tuesday, August 1, 2000

Plenary Session

Welfare Reform: Other Perspectives on Unfinished Business and New Challenges

Jack Tweedie, National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, Colorado

Susan Golonka, National Governor's Association, Washington, D.C.

Elaine Ryan, American Public Human Services Association, Washington, D.C.

Concurrent Session IV

A: TANF Leavers' Studies: The Continuing Story

When Families Leave TANF Behind: TANF Leavers in Illinois

David Gruenenfelder, Bureau of Program Design & Evaluation, Division of Transitional Services,
Illinois Department of Human Services, Steve Anderson, George Julnes and Tony Halter, University
of Illinois

Use of Community-Based Emergency Assistance by Kansas City Welfare Leavers

Nancy Dunton and Jane Mosely, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

State of Wisconsin Welfare Closure Study: A Study of All AFDC and W-2 Closures

Chuck Brassington and Paul Saeman, Division of Economic Support, Wisconsin Department of
Workforce Development, Madison, Wisconsin

B: Administrative Data: More Than Meets the Eye

Harnessing the Power of Data: State TANF Agencies' Use of Administrative Data for

Policy and Program Management

Gary Cyphers and Kathleen Kinsella, Human Services Research and Information Center, American
Public Human Services Association, Washington, D.C.

The Role of Data Mining in Examining Administrative Databases

Richard E. Mantovani, Ph.D., Macro International, Inc., Calverton, Maryland

Administrative Data: Confidentiality and Access Issues

Henry Brady, Susan Grand, Anne Powell, Ph.D. and Werner Schink, Survey Research Center,
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California

C: Work, Work and More Work

Helping Welfare Recipients Attain Longer-Term Employment Stability and Earnings Growth:
Findings from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies

Stephen Freedman and Charles Michalopoulos, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
(MDRC), New York, New York

Understanding the World of Work: Using a Large-scale Participative Research Process to Identify
Critical Employment Skills & Build Employer Involvement in Welfare Reform

Dent C. Davis, Institute for Work and Learning, Knoxville, Tennessee

From Welfare to Work: Job Retention Among Low-Skill Workers

David Wagner, Regional Economic Studies Institute, Towson University, Towson, MD

D: Child Welfare Practice: Measurement and Evaluation

Performance Measurement in Child Welfare: Getting Managers to Use Data Effectively

Beth Grismer Moore, Hamilton County Department of Human Services, Cincinnati, OH

Making a Case for Reviewing the Case Record: Benefits and Challenges to Reviewing Child Welfare
Case Records for Research and Program Evaluation

Ingrid Graf, Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

Self-Evaluation as a Management Tool

Nancy Lasky and Donna Johnston, Community Partnership for Protecting Children,

Louisville, KY

E: Health and Nutrition

Selected Health Outcomes for Poor Women in Four U.S. Cities Prior to Welfare Reform

Denise F. Polit, Humanalysis, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., John M. Martinez, Manpower Demonstration Research
Corporation, New York, N.Y. and Andrew S. London, Dep't of Sociology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

The Effect of WIC Receipt on Health of Low Income Children

Bong Joo Lee, Lucy Mackey-Bilaver and Robert Goerge, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Barriers and Enhancements to Participation in Medicaid and the Food Stamp Program Under Welfare Reform:
A Review of Recent Work

M. Robin Dion and LaDonna Pavetti, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ

F: Work and Family Issues

Income Mobility after Welfare Reform

Colleen M. Heflin, Sheldon Danziger and Nathaniel Anderson, Poverty Research and Training Center, University of Michigan

Making the Transition to Self Sufficiency in Wisconsin

John Tapogna and Tara Witt, ECONorthwest, Portland, Oregon and Vicky Selkowe,

Institute for Wisconsin's Future, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Changes in Leave Usage by Recent Mothers & Fathers Post-FMLA: Evidence from the SIPP

Jane Waldfogel and Wen-Jui Han, Columbia University, New York, New York and

Katherin Ross, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

Concurrent Session V

A: Taking the Temperature of Time Limits

Latest Findings from Studies of Time-Limited Welfare Programs

Barbara Goldman, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, New York

Looking Beyond Mean Impacts to See Who Gains and Who Loses with Time-Limited

Welfare: Evidence from the Indiana Welfare Reform Evaluation

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

The Challenges in Conducting a Survey of Recipients Facing Time Limits

Helen Anne Sweeney, Bureau of Research & Evaluation, Ohio Dep't of Human Services

Columbus, Ohio

B: Innovations in Date Storage, Analysis & Use

A Stock-Flow Analysis of the Welfare Caseload: Insights from California Economic Conditions

Jacob Klerman and Steven Haider, RAND, Santa Monica, California

Assessing the Impact of Continuous Eligibility Changes on Medicaid: Using Administrative Date to
Quickly Assess a Policy Change

Dean Duncan, Michelle Dylan and Nan Sook Park, Jordan Institute for Families, School

of Social Work, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.

C: More on Leavers, but with a Twist...

Barriers in the Transition from Welfare to Work: A Closer Look at the Issues Using Administrative and
Survey Data in Ohio

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Jill Cicarelli, MSW, Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University

Former Clients of South Carolina's Welfare Program: Somewhat Different Pictures in Survey and
Administrative Data

Donald M. Klos, Ph.D., Public Services Research Laboratory/Consultant, South Carolina Department of
Social Services, Columbia, South Carolina

Cross-State Comparison of Findings from Leavers' Studies

Julia B. Isaacs, Division of Data and Technical Analysis, Office of the Ass't Secretary for Planning &
Evaluation, U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.

D: How Are Families Doing? Leavers Studies in Two States

Arizona's Cash Assistance Exit Study: Process and Findings

Mark F. McCain, Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phoenix, Arizona

Food Stamp Leavers in Arizona: How Are They Coping?

Greg Mills, Abt Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts

How Food Stamp Leavers are Faring: Evidence from Illinois

Phil Gleason and Anu Rangarajan, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ

E: Child Care

Head Start, TANF and Child Care Needs Assessments

Emily Melnick, Joe Penkrot and Ianna Kachoris, Office of Evaluation & Inspections, Office of Inspector
General, U.S. Dep't of Health and Human Services, Chicago, Illinois

Parents' Perceptions: Child Care and Subsidy Use in Illinois

Patricia Berndt, MSW, Bureau of Program Design and Evaluation, Illinois Department

of Human Services, Springfield, Illinois

Wisconsin Works (W-2) and Family Day Care Homes in Central Wisconsin: Quality Child Care and
Challenges of Providers

Oluyomi Ogunnaike, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI

F: Final Results: Evaluation of Five State Health Reform

Demonstrations

Building a Newer Mousetrap: The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Expansions in 1115
Demonstrations

Leighton Ku, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.

Consequences of Inadequate Administrative Data on Survey Response Rates and
Health

Policy Issues

Ann Ciemnecki, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ

Expansion of Health Insurance Coverage in Hawaii and Tennessee

Lorenzo Moreno, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, NJ

SSI Enrollees' Experiences in TennCare

Judith Woolridge, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton NJ

Concurrent Session VI

A: Clients' Views on the New Welfare Era

Supporting the Move from Welfare to Work: What Women Say

Sue Pearlmutter, Ph.D., Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio and Elizabeth E. Bartle, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, California
State University at Northridge, Northridge, California

Moving Forward or Falling Back: Chicago Women Talk about Their Experiences After Leaving
Welfare

Steve Anderson and Anthony Halter, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, Illinois

Getting Smart About Welfare: Policy Research on the Impact of Welfare Reform on Low Income
Women Enrolled in College

Leslie R. Wolfe, Ph.D., and Jennifer Tucker, Center for Women Policy Studies,

Washington, D.C.

B: Beginning at the Beginning: Approaches to Assessment

Charting the Path to Employment: A Study of State TANF Agencies' Client Assessment Policies
and Practices

Gary Cyphers and Scott Brawley, MSW, Human Services Research and Information Center,
American Public Human Services Association, Washington, DC

Transforming the Role of the Welfare System to Identify and Address Client's Chronic

Barriers to Employment

Alicia Meckstroth, Amy Johnson, LaDonna Pavetti, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.,
Princeton, New Jersey

Working to Address Barriers to Self-Sufficiency: Lessons from the Families in Transition
Program

Kendra Lodewick & Rebecca London, Ph.D.,Berkeley Policy Associates, Oakland, CA

C: TANF: Leavers, Stayers & The Eligibility Context

TANF Leavers and Stayers: Recent Evidence from New Jersey

Anu Rangarajan and Robert G. Wood, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ

How Has TANF Changed the Number and Types of Families Eligible for Cash Aid? A
Microsimulation Analysis

Linda Giannarelli and Don Alderson, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

D: Family Literacy and School Performance

The National Center for Family Literacy: Family Independence Initiative

Judith A. Alamprese and Fumiyo Tao, Abt Associates, Bethesda, Maryland

Family Literacy Program Serving Welfare Recipients: What Was Learned from Six Years of
Evaluation?

Olga Ebert, Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

Enhancing School Performance of Children of TANF Mothers

Dennis K. Orthner, Ph.D. and Patty Cook, MSW, Jordan Institute for Families, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

E: Non-Experimental Evaluations of TANF Programs

- An Update

Evaluation of Ohio Works First - An Update

Richard Mantovani, Macro International, Calverton, MD and Helen Anne Sweeney, Bureau of Research
& Evaluation, Ohio Dep't of Human Services, Columbus, Ohio

New Hampshire Welfare Reform Evaluation - An Update

Michelle Solloway, Health Management & Policy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and
Roberta Bourque, New Hampshire Dep't of Health & Human Services

Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Minnesota's WorkFIRST and Statewide MFIP Programs: An Update

Robert Bleimann, MAXIMUS, McLean, VA and Gus P. Avenido, Minnesota Dep't of Human Services,
St. Paul, MN

Discussant: Michael Wiseman, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

F: Intermediaries, Community Organizations and

Welfare Reform

The Role of Intermediaries in Linking TANF Recipients with Jobs

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle K. Derr, Jacquelyn Anderson, Carole Trippe and Sidnee Paschal, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc., Washington, D.C.

Community Innovations in Welfare Avoidance: Preliminary Findings from Reform Initiatives in Texas

Miguel Ferguson, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Texas, Austin, Texas