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