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	Wednesday, August 2, 2000 Concurrent Session VII A: Work, Well-Being and Supports to Self Sufficiency Health and Well-Being in Oklahoma: A Long-Term Analysis of Welfare Reform Kenneth Kickham, Robert Bentley, Nury Effendi and Angela Harnden, Oklahoma Department of Human Services The Effects of Programs with Financial Work Incentives on Parents and Children Gordon Berlin, Dan Bloom, Lisa Gennetian, Virginia Knox, Charles Michalopoulos, Cynthia Miller, Pamela Morris, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., NY, NY B: Special Populations, Special Needs Employing "Hard to Serve" Welfare Recipients: Lessons from the Disability Field Michael Fishman and Karen Gardiner, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, Virginia Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Families Caring for Children with Special Needs Barbara LeRoy, Ph.D. and Donna M. Johnson, M.Ed., Developmental Disabilities Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan State Welfare-to-Work Policies for People with Disabilities: Implementation Challenges and Considerations Terri S. Thompson, Pamela Holcomb and Kelly Mikelson, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
	C: Spatial Issues in Welfare Reform Small Area Analysis: Determining "Uninsurance Rates" for Local Areas Across Florida William Lazarus, Ph.D., Lazarus Associates, Tampa, FL, Marilynn Evert, Health Management Associates, Tallahassee, FL, Brady Foust, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and Ben Hitt, Independent Consultant The Spatial Context of Welfare Reform Aracelis Holguin and Sanjeev Sridharan, Caliber Associates, Fairfax, Virginia The Role of the Economy and Welfare Policies in Shaping Welfare Caseloads: The California Experience Sandra Catlin, Ph.D., and Vicky Albert, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas D: TANF Caseloads: Myths, Realities and Assumptions TANF Caseload Dynamics: Are Commonly Held Assumptions Correct? Marilyn Edelhoch, Quidan Liu and Linda Martin, South Carolina Department of Social Services,Columbia, South Carolina The Hard-to-Serve Have Been Left Behind: Myth or Reality? Pamela Caudill, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Welfare Caseload Dynamics, Employment and Earnings in Illinois: 1991-99 Bong Joo Lee, Ph.D. and Robert M. Goerge, Ph.D., Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
	E: Preparing for Welfare Reform Reauthorization: Using Welfare Data and Research to Help Inform Congress Craig Abbey, Christine Devere, Gene Falk and Thomas Gabe, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research Service This panel will discuss how available data and research on the effects of the 1996 welfare reform law are likely to inform Congress as it begins its consideration of reauthorizing welfare reform. All four presesnters are from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan agency that provides information and research exclusively to Congress.
	Concurrent Session VIII A: Producing Public Use Data Files for Administrative and Survey Data: Plans and Issues The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) has required public use files from states and counties receiving grants to study outcomes for families leaving or diverted from welfare (awarded in 9/98 and 9/99). To provide guidance to the grantees in producing and documenting such files, a Work Group of grantee and research community representatives, discussed these issues over several months. This roundtable will present the deliberations of the Work Group as to how to make these data useful to potential users, proposed plans regarding content and documentation, confidentiality issues, and pilot efforts at implementing the guidance. The presenters will offer opportunities for audience comment Tammy Ouellette, Macro International, Technical Assistance contractor Helene Jennings, Macro International, Technical Assistance contractor Robert Dana, Macro International, Technical Assistance contractor Shon Kraley, Washington State Department of Health and Human Services, Olympia, WA B: Methodological Potpourri Estimating Policy Impacts for the Federal Caseload Reduction Credit Report **********Slide Presentation********** David Wagner and Mary C. Bozza Wise, Regional Economic Studies Institute, Towson University, Towson, Maryland Linking Administrative Data and Survey Data to Assess Client Service Use and Outcomes Gerard "Rod" Barber, Ph.D., Tangerine-Ann Holt, Ph.D., Bob Daugherty, MSSW and Jan Spang, MSW, Kent School of Social Work and Urban Research Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
				C: Welfare Reform in Georgia: Impacts, Profiles and Assessment Organizational Assessment and Personnel-Related Effects Stephen E. Condrey and Michele Ross, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia The Remaining TANF Recipients: A Research Based Profile Ed Risler, Larry Nackerud and Christopher Larrison, School of Social Work, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Children and Welfare Reform: Comparing Well-Being in a Sample of Working and Welfare Poor Children in Georgia Fred P. Brooks, School of Social Work, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
	D: National Employment, Retention & Advancement Evaluation: Roundtable This roundtable will focus on employment retention and advancement strategies for TANF clients underway at the state level and efforts to evaluate the interventions. To help build knowledge about how best to help welfare recipients sustain employment and advance in the labor market, ACF issued planning grants to13 states. The Employment Retention & Advancement Project (ERA) is to help states implement and refine their strategies and to empirically evaluate the strategies. The panel will begin with presentations from the evaluators. Representatives from one or two states will describe the evaluation process at the ground level. Finally, an ACF representative will describe the agency's interest in the evaluations, as well as how to help states understand and apply lessons suggested by the research findings. Michael Fishman, The Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA Barbara Goldman, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY Burt Barnow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Baltimore, MD Representatives from two ERA states Representative from the Administration for Children and Families, USDHHS
					E: Welfare Reform: Implementation, Management & Governance Implementation and Governance in Welfare-to-Work Programs Carolyn J. Hill, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Implementing Welfare Reform in a County-Based System: New Jersey's "Work First" Program Linda C. Rosenberg, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ and Richard Roper, The Roper Group, Newark, NJ Who Is Minding the Store? Devolution in Welfare Reform Marilyn Klotz, Kathryn V. Byers, Gaamaa Hishigsuren and Paul Kirby, Institute for Family and Social Responsibility, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana F: Rural Welfare to Work Strategies This workshop will provide an overview of rural issues associated with welfare-to-work (WTW) efforts. Presentations will be made by three states who have received rural WTW grants from ACF-DHHS and have been involved in creative WTW strategies focused on rural populations/ areas. Information about common challenges and issues will also be provided. Ellen Marks, Macro International Jen Beck, Department of Humans Services, Des Moines, Iowa Bill Brister, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi Ila Schneibel, Department of Human Services, St. Paul, Minnesota