Secretaries' Innovation Group
Washington, DC Meeting July 2017
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Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis
The Our Broken Escalator: Gathering Systemic Troubles In 21st Century America
Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
Update on Consent Decree Reform Efforts
Maura Corrigan, Child Welfare, Former Michigan Human Services Director, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, & AEI Scholar
Developing a SIG Child Welfare Proposal for State Flexibility
Don Winstead, SIG Consultant
The Five Myths of Welfare Reform
Are We Still Married? Family Structure and Family Policy in the Emerging Age of the Unformed Family
Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Food Stamp Reform
Jason Turner, Executive Director, Secretaries' Innovation Group
Implementing Policies to Assure that the Mentally Ill are on their Medication
Eliminating Barriers to the Treatment of Severe Mental Illness
John Snook, Executive Director, Treatment Advocacy Center
Reducing Fraudulent Duplicate Payments
The National Accuracy Clearinghouse (NAC): Creating a Health and Human Services Clearinghouse
Kevin McCabe, Senior Director of Sales, LexisNexis
Richard Grape, Market Planner, LexisNexis
Joel Savell, Director of Business Development, LexisNexis
Why Do Federal Job Training Programs Fail to Have Larger Impacts on Employment and Wages Than They Do?
Jacob Alex Klerman, Senior Fellow, Abt
Fraud Prevention Using Biometric Techniques for Positive Identification
Mark DiFraia, Senior Director of Market Development, MorphoTrust USA
Jason Conley, Executive Director, Identification Technical Association (IdTA)
Marijuana and Employee Productivity
Cannabis: What We Know and What Keeps Us Up at Night
Dr. Susan Weiss, Director, Division of Extramural Research, Office of Science Policy, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
Marijuana and Employee Productivity
Jeffrey Zinsmeister, Executive Vice President, Smart Approaches to Marijuana & Senior Fellow, University of Florida Drug Policy Institute
The Positive Health Effects of Work: Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed Despite Medical Conditions
Loss of Livelihood Is a Devastating Health Outcome
Dr. Jennifer Christian, Webility Corporation
The Future of Government Programs is to Pay for Outcomes, Not Process: From Concept to Action
Maximizing Impact Through Outcomes Contracting
Caroline Whistler, CEO, Third Sector Capital Partners
John Grossman, Managing Director & General Counsel, Third Sector Capital Partners
Public Impact Initiative / Options for Outcomes-Based Funding
Jeff Shumway, Vice President of Advisory Services, Social Finance
Navjeet Bal, Vice President & General Counsel, Social Finance
Six Sigma or Lean May Not Be the Best Systems for Government Management Improvement: The Theory of Constraints (TOC) May Be More Adaptable
Theory of Constraints: 1O1
Kristen Cox, Executive Director, Utah Governor's Office Management and Budget
Criminal Justice - Substance Abuse and Work
Overview of Swift Certain Fair—Principles, Practices, and Innovations
Sandy F. Mullins, JD, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University
BetaGov: Innovate with Us
Jonathon Stewart, Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management & Chief of Staff, Litmus, New York University
From Career Academies to Apprenticeships: Doing the Hard Work of Integrating Work and Learning to Provide Meaningful Advancement Opportunities
Improving Youth Labor Market Prospects: Long-Term Findings From an Evaluation of Career Academies
James Kemple, Research Alliance for New York City Schools, New York University
Proposal for Legislative Action: The SIG Reform of Unemployment Compensation
Proposals to Empower States
Douglas J. Holmes, President, UWC – Strategic Services on Unemployment & Workers’ Compensation