NAWRS 2025 Workshop Presentations

Monday, August 4

Research Opportunities, Challenges, & Findings in 3 Early-Childhood Collective Impact Initiatives

Coordinating Benefits to Improve Efficiency and Family Experiences: Lessons from a Toolkit Pilot

Open-Source Microsimulation for Agile Welfare Policy Analysis: Introducing PolicyEngine

Using Pathways to Work to Transform Practice: An Interactive Workshop

Early Insights from Utilizing Consent-Based Income Verification to Improve Public Benefits Programs

Post-Exit Earnings of Wisconsin TANF Participants

Developing Enhanced SNAP Timeliness Lead Measures

From Data to Action: Efforts in Applying Survey Results to Affect Programmatic Change

Translating Research into Practice: A Case Study of WIOA Evaluation in Utah

Applied Family Policy Research Partnerships in Action: Examples from Wisconsin

Using Unemployment Insurance Data to Measure Workforce Outcomes

Tuesday, August 5

Advancing Family-Centered Child Support Services: Lessons from a Multi-State Initiative

Designing for Dignity: Public-Private Partnerships and AI for Human-Centered Benefits Delivery

Earnings with Impact: Increasing Dignity and Autonomy through Financial Empowerment

Poverty and Culture

Safety Net Investment and Infant Health Outcomes

Targeting Older Adult Enrollment Gaps in SNAP, SSI, and MSP using the Benefits Participation Maps

An Introduction to the Policy Rules Database R Package

Engage and Explore Sessions

Incorporating Evidence into Practice in Minnesota State Government

Improving TANF: Maryland’s Mixed-Methods Evaluation and Roadmap for Policy and Practice

Trauma-Informed Findings & Innovations from Maryland’s TANF Evaluation

Lessons from Using Staff Behavior Change Strategies to Implement Client Centered Approaches in TANF

Impact of SNAP and TANF on Self-Sufficiency in Virginia

Fix the Car First - A Tri-State Analysis of How Transportation Assistance Increases Employment in TANF

Emergency Assistance: Using Research to Drive Programmatic Change

Evaluating Tennessee’s TANF Opportunity Act: Implementation Research in a State Learning Laboratory

TANF Data Collaboratives: Building Data Analytics Capacity

TANF Recipients Report Diaper Insecurity and Negative Health Outcomes for Children and Parents

Building a Benefit Navigator to Tackle Administrative Burden and Fuel Economic Mobility

Unlocking Billions: Research-Driven Innovations to Expand EITC Access and Empower Families

Wisconsin’s Child Support Parent Advisory Group: Successes and Challenges

Partnering with Organized Labor to Build Career Pathways: Lessons Learned from an Innovative Grant

Describing and Sustaining Public Sector Data Use: Lessons Learned from State TANF Agencies

Highlights of the Social Services Block Grant from FY2023

Transforming the Human Services Workforce: One Transformation Leading to Many

Lessons Learned from Staff of Four Innovative Employment Programs

Building Practice/Research Collaborations

Before the Technology: How States Can Use Legacy System Data to Drive Smart Decisions