Secretaries' Innovation Group
Washington, DC Meeting November 2018
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White House and Washington post election agenda
Did we win the War on Poverty?
Richard Burkhauser, White House Council of Economic Advisors
Executive Order Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility
ACF and TANF
Up … Not Off: Moving from Medicaid to Self-Sufficiency
Steve Wagner, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children & Families
Clarence Carter, Director, Office of Family Assistance
Ways and Means
H.R. 5861: Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Bill Packet
H.R. 5861: Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2018 Helping More Americans Enter and
Remain in the Workforce Section by Section Summary
Competitive federal program launch SIPPRA
Overview of $100mm SIPPRA Federal Funding Opportunity for State & Local Governments
Kristel Kurtz,Third Sector
Brian Beachkofski, Third Sector
Update on Marijuana Legalization
The Current Landscape
Garth VanMeter, Vice-President of Federal Affairs, SAM
When and how to fight spurious studies from the poverty industry
Kansas Model for Welfare Reform
Steve Greene, Kansas Department of Children and Families
Spend less on “mental health” and more on serious mental illness
DJ Jaffee, Executive Director, Mental Illness Policy Org. & Author
How states Can Help Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI) Get Treatment
Remarks to the National Association of Medicaid Directors
Job Corps
Tom Deuschle, Department of Labor
RESEA
Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program
Gay Gilbert, Administrator, Unemployment Insurance, Department of Labor
Child Welfare
Family First Prevention Services Act: Implementation Considerations
Judge Jim Payne, PCG