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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

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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