Secretaries' Innovation Group
TANF Reauthorization
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 - Focus on Work and Accountability
Grant Collins, Executive Director, Fedcap
Lessons from Welfare-to-Work Experiments and Related Studies
Jim Riccio, Director, Manpower Demonstration Research Corp.
Child Welfare
Dr. Jim Payne, Public Consulting Group; and former Director, Indiana Department of Child Services
Doug Besharov, University of Maryland School of Public Policy; and first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
The Allegheny County Experience
Marc Cherna, Director, Dept. Human Services, Allegheny County
Rethinking Consent Decrees
John Bursch, Partner, Warner Norcross and Judd
Greg Povolny, CEO, MindShare Technology
Advanced Analytics to Improve Child Welfare Practice and Outcomes
Will Jones, Child Well Being Industry Consultant, SAS State and Local Government Practice
Substance Abuse
Dr. Kenneth Robinson, President, Correctional Counseling
Marriage and Child Support
Are We Still Married? Family Structure and Family Policy in the Emerging Age of the Unformed Family
David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values; and author of Fatherless America and The Future of Marriage
Innovation from Wyoming
Ray Fleming Dinneen, Executive Director, Climb Wyoming
Donna Nelson, Statewide Director of Operations, Climb Wyoming
Universal Engagement in Work
Michelle Beebe, Unemployment Insurance Director, Utah Department of Workforce Services
Disability State Demonstrations
PROMISE (Promoting the Readiness Of Minors In Supplemental Security IncomE)
Ellie Hartman, Promise Grant Project Manager, Wisconsin Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Expansion of Medicare under Obamacare
Evidence is Mounting: The Affordable Care Act Has Worsened Medicaid’s Structural Problems
Brian Blase, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Washington, DC Meeting November 2016
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