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11:00 am- 1:00 pm Guilford

NAWRS Board of Directors Meeting Open to NAWRS Board members

1:00 pm- 5:00 pm Kent

NASTA Business Meeting Open to State and Local TANF Administrators

2:00 pm– 6:00 pm Maryland Ballroom

Registration

6:00 pm- 7:00 pm Guilford

Book Discussion with Brendan Kelly, NAWRS Board of Directors, Federal Liaison

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. A conversation on the intersection of science, poverty, ethics and Baltimore/Maryland

7:00 pm- 9:00 pm Watertable Ballroom

Welcome Reception

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REGISTRATION 7:30 am -3:30 pm Maryland Foyer

EXHIBITORS GALLERY 8:00 am -5:00 pm Maryland Foyer

Mathematica Policy Research

Maximus MDRC

Public Consulting Group Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse

Urban Institute Welfare Peer TA Network

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8:30 am - 8:55 am Maryland Ballroom (CDF) Opening Remarks

8:55 am - 9:15 am Maryland Ballroom

Tracy Wareing APHSA

Pathways Initiative

9:15 am - 9:45 am Maryland Ballroom

Keynote Address: Michael Laracy, Director of Policy Reform and Advocacy,

Annie E. Casey Foundation 9:45 am - 11:00 am Maryland Ballroom

Plenary #1 Research Academy

Mike Fishman MEF Associates

Improving Program Effectiveness: A New Paradigm for Program

Evaluation and Management

Don Winstead, Don Winstead Consulting

Jim Riccio, Low Wage Workers and

Communities, MDRC Stephen Bell,

Abt Associates 11:00 am - 11:15 am Break

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11:15 am -12:30 pm Gibson

Moving Welfare Recipients to Work: Findings from the Field

Sandra Cheatem-Dooley

Michigan Department of Human Services

Work Success: Where Jobs are Landed and Careers

are Launched

Suzy Beegle Dennis Favilla

Baltimore County Department of Social

Services

Helen Thatcher Utah Department of

Workforce Mary Beth

Vogel-Ferguson, University of Utah

Colorado Works/TANF Program Innovations –

How Colorado Got There and Some Results

Sarah Marsh Colorado Works

Colorado Department of Human Services

Homeland Understanding SNAP as a Social Safety Net: A Look at Caseload

Characteristics and Redemption Patterns

Paul Lefkowitz Public Consulting

Group

An Analysis of New York City Food Stamp Benefit

Redemption Patterns

Kevin Fellner New York City Human

Resources Administration

The SNAP‐UI Data Linkage Project: Recipient

Characteristics and Policy Implications

Theresa Anderson John A. Kirlin

Economic Research Service, USDA

Characteristics of Likely SNAP Eligible Families: Evidence from Texas

Administrative Records

Erik Scherpf Constance Newman Economic Research

Service, USDA

Kent 2011 National Welfare Survey Findings and 2012 Welfare Community of Practice (CoP) Conclusions and

Promising Practices

Julisa Cully, Institute for Community

Inclusion, UMASS Boston

Review of Partnerships and Collaboration

Suzanne Hopkins, Vermont Department for

Children and Families

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(Continued from previous page) Review of Internship Program & ESP

Mary Roberto Colorado Department of

Human Services

Review of TANF Goals in Service Delivery‐Data Sharing Challenges

Jody Ryan Institute for Community Inclusion, UMASS Boston

Watertable TANF EBT and the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012

Kevin Henson West Virginia

Department of Health & Human

Resources

Robert Ek,

APHSA, Discussant

California's ATM Deactivation Process

Timeline of EBT Policy

Elizabeth French JP Morgan

Scott Barnette Colorado Department of

Human Services Todd Bland California

Bard Shollenberger, Xerox

Federal Hill Examining the TANF Block Grant and State Maintenance of Effort

Spending: Is It Enough to Support Low-Income Families?

Ed Zogby Pennsylvania

Department of Public Welfare

The Correlation of States’ Child Poverty Rates with

the Allocation of Their TANF Block Grants in the

21st Century

Gilbert Crouse ASPE

"How States Have Spent their Federal and State Funds Under TANF - and

what to do about it?"

Elizabeth Schott Center on Budget and

Policy Priorities

Five States’ Approaches to the TANF Block Grant

Heather Hahn The Urban Institute

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Maryland Ballroom

Plenary #2 TANF Waivers and Performance

Measures Lunch provided

LaDonna Pavetti, Discussant

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities

Brendan Kelly ACF/OPRE

Heather Hahn The Urban Institute

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm Break

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2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Watertable

Understanding the Caseload Characteristics, Benefit Receipt, and

Work Patterns of TANF Families

Manuel Moreno County of Los Angeles, Chief

Executive Office

Intergenerational Welfare Participation and Work

Patterns

Sarah Williamson University of Maryland

Poverty, Work, and Program Benefit Receipt

among Families with Children

Susan Hauan Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning

and Evaluation HHS

Single Mother Employment and Income

Trends 1990-2010

Danilo Trisi LaDonna Pavetti

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Gibson Lessons Learned from the Healthy Marriage and Responsible

Fatherhood Initiatives

Terrie Reed Alabama

Department of Human Resources

Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from

Responsible Fatherhood work: Overview of a new

Toolkit for Practitioners

Patrick Patterson, & Matt Crews

ICF International Edward Lawson

Fathers Incorporated

Stepping up or stepping back: Highly

disadvantaged parents' responses to Building

Strong Families

Andrew Clarkwest Mathematica Policy

Research, Inc.

Examining the Research Evidence on Responsible

Fatherhood Programs

Sarah Avellar Mathematica Policy

Research, Inc.

Homeland Strategies for Helping Vulnerable Children and Parents to Access

SSI/SSDI Benefits

Gayathri Sundar San Francisco

Human Services Agency

The Use of Longitudinal Data in SSI/SSDI Eligibility Screening for Foster Care

and Public Assistance Populations

Leigh Ann Newman Lucia Campriello

Public Consulting Group

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State Policy and Supplemental Security

Income for Children

Erica Harbatkin Michael Wiseman,

George Washington Institute of Public Policy

Federal Hill Assessing the Employment Outcomes and Career Pathways for TANF Recipients with Barriers to Work

Colleen Moskal Maximus

Short-term Outcomes for Welfare Clients with

Barriers to Work

Letitia Logan University of Maryland

Use of Assessment Strategies to Guide Career Paths of Temporary Cash Assistant

Recipients

Pamela E. Scott-Johnson Mercy Mugo Lynnett Gray

Morgan State University

Assessing the Impact of South Carolina's Family

Independence Program on Three Cohorts of TANF

Entrants

Qiduan Liu Cynthia Flynn

University of South Carolina

Kent Strategies for Engaging Employers and Social Enterprise Initiatives

Anthony Ong Public Consulting

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Platform to Employment: A Social Enterprise Putting

99ers Back to Work

Joseph Carbone

The WorkPlace

Employer Resource Networks, A Public/Private Venture

Helping Welfare Recipients Maintain Employment and Navigate the Public Benefit Cliff Effect to Advancement

and Sustainable Wages

James Vander Hulst Disruptive Innovation for

Social Change

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Break Sponsored by JP Morgan

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3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Watertable

RESEARCH ACADEMY SESSION #1 Michael Wiseman George

Washington Institute of Public

Policy

Why do we need a new paradigm? What should

the next generation of randomized control trials

look like?

Rick Hendra MDRC

Kinsey Dinan New York City Human

Resources Administration Erik Beecroft

Virginia Department of Social Services

Kent Improving Access to Public Assistance Benefits for Low-Income

Individuals and Families

Judy Kennedy Kansas

Department for Children & Families

Public Housing Assistance and Disconnection from

TANF and Work

Andrea Hetling Rutgers University

Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-

Based Tools and Outreach

Emily Sama-Miller Mathematica Policy

Research

21st Century Benefits Systems

Elizabeth Lower-Basch CLASP

Federal Hill Strategic Planning and Performance Management Strategies Designed to

Improve Program Outcomes

Doug Howard Maximus

Using Business Intelligence (BI) to plan, manage and

improve program outcomes

Swati Desai Rockefeller Institute of Government; Urban

Institute

Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS)

2010-2013 Strategic Plan Development and

Strategic Planning Process

Sophia Lee Los Angeles County

Department of Public Social Services

Washington WorkFirst Redesign Efforts

Using Data Across Service

Systems – Linking

Babs Roberts Washington State

Department of Social and Health Services

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Promising Child Welfare Practices: Lessons Learned from the Research

and the Field

Linda Hughes Oklahoma

Department of Human Services

The Predictive Validity of the California Family Risk

Assessment and Implications for Child

Welfare Service Resource Allocation

Will Johnson California State University

at East Bay

Molly McGrath Tierney Baltimore City

Department of Social Services

Birth Match: The Timely Use of Administrative Data

to Protect Newborns

Terry Shaw Richard Barth

University of Maryland School of Social Work

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REGISTRATION 7:30 am -3:30 pm Maryland Foyer

EXHIBITORS GALLERY 8:00 am -5:00 pm Maryland Foyer

Mathematica Policy Research

Maximus MDRC

Public Consulting Group Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse

Urban Institute Welfare Peer TA Network

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9:00 am- 9:15 am Maryland Ballroom (CDF) Announcements

9:15 am -10:30 am Maryland Ballroom

Plenary #2 – The Social Safety Net in 2012 and Recommendations for

Improvement

Michael Wiseman George Washington

Institute of Public Policy

Ron Haskins Brookings Institute LaDonna Pavetti

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities Thomas Gais

Rockefeller Institute of Government

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BREAKOUT SESSION #4

10:45 am – 12:00 pm Homeland

Who Needs Help and Who Gets It: Understanding Poor Families and the

Responsiveness of the Social Safety Net

Regan Vaughan Catholic Charities

Policy and Poverty in New York City: Latest Findings from

the CEO Poverty Measure

Mark Levitan New York City Center for Economic Opportunity

TANF Caseload during the Economic Downturn, 2007

to 2011

Ife Finch Center on Budget and

Policy Priorities

The Safety Net in Recession and Recovery

Elizabeth Lower-Basch CLASP

Watertable Workshop: Conducting Research with Administrative Data at the U.S. Census

Bureau: an Overview of Available Data, with Examples from Current Projects

Clyde Johnson Baltimore City Department of Social Services

Types of Administrative Data Files Available through the

U.S. Census Bureau's Research Data Centers

Michael Berning U.S. Census Bureau

EITC Estimates in the CPS AEC Simulations of After-Tax Income,

Hispanic population

Kathleen Short U.S. Census Bureau

An Evaluation of the Reporting of SNAP Dynamics

in 2008 SIPP

Graton Gathright U.S. Census Bureau

Kent Behavioral Economic Nudges to Social Programs: An Introduction to

Behavioral Mapping

Zana Devitto Riverside County Department of

Public Social Services

A Brief Introduction to Behavioral Economics and Its Previous Applications in Public

Policy and Administration Emerging Lessons from: - The National Domestic

Violence Hotline - Illinois' TANF program

- Maine's child care quality rating system

- Texas' child support program

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Peter Baird MDRC

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10:45 am – 12:00 pm Federal Hill

Getting SSI/SSDI Beneficiaries Back to Work: Lessons Learned from

Employment-Based Demonstrations for Individuals with Disabilities

David Dlugolecki, New York State

Office of Temporary and

Disability Assistance

Using Interim Evaluation Findings to Inform

Formative Feedback and Target Technical

Assistance: Lessons from the Youth Transition

Demonstration Project

John Martinez MDRC

Getting SSI/SSDI Beneficiaries Back to

Work: Lessons Learned from Employment-Based

Demonstrations for Individuals with Disabilities

Jade Ann Gingerich Maryland Department of

Disabilities

Creating Work Incentives for SSDI Beneficiaries:

Findings from the Initial Implementation of the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)

Denise Hoffman Mathematica Policy

Research

Gibson Food Assistance and Dietary Choices Among SNAP Recipients

Stephanie Hawkins,

MD Department of Human Resources

SNAP and Diet Quality: An Instrumental Variables

Approach

Michele Ver Ploeg Economic Research

Service USDA

NYC SNAP Participants and the Epidemic of

Obesity: What Difference Could a Sugary Beverage

Restriction Make?

Kinsey Dinan New York City Human

Resources Administration

Building a Base of Evidence for a Promising

School‐Based Nutrition Education Program that Fits

the New SNAP‐Ed Guidance

Lisa Walker University of Chicago

Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner University of Chicago

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12:00 pm – 1:45 pm Maryland Ballroom Lunch on your own

Brown Bag discussion with Donna Pavetti and Liz Schott

(12:30 – 1:30 PM)

Brown Bag Discussion: Running a Better Work Program

(With or Without Waivers)

BREAKOUT SESSION #5 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm Watertable

Policies, Procedures, and Practices Designed to Increase the TANF Work

Participation Rate

Jamie Haskel University of Maryland

A Study of TANF Work Participation

Elizabeth Laird Mathematica Policy

Research

Evolution of State TANF Policies in a post‐DRA

post‐Recession Context: Evidence from the

Welfare Rules Database

David Kassabian Urban Institute

A state perspective on engagement

Xochitl Esparza Oregon

Gibson How Data Are Informing Interventions and Improving Assistance to

Homeless TANF Families

Discussant: Seth Diamond, New York City Department of

Homeless Services

Using Data Across Service Systems – Linking

Homeless Management Information systems and

TANF Programs

Babs Roberts, Washington State

Department of Social and Health Services

New Approaches to Emergency Assistance: Evidence for Rapid Re-

housing

Sharon McDonald National Alliance to End

Homelessness

Using Data Across Service Systems: Linking

Homelessness Management Information Systems (HMIS) and TANF

Programs

Helen Thatcher Utah Department of Workforce Services

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Subsidized Employment Programs: Lessons Learned from the ARRA

Initiative

Deborah Joffe Public Consulting

Group

Evaluation of the ARRA‐funded Subsidized

Jobs Program in NYC: Were Private Sector Jobs better than Public Sector Jobs?

Angela Sheehan Kevin Fellner

NYC Human Resources Administration

Melissa Young Transitional Jobs Network

Getting to 10,000 Jobs: The Los Angeles County TANF

Emergency Contingency Fund Subsidized Employment

Program

Michael Bono Los Angeles County

Department of Public Social Services

Federal Hill Using Research and Evidence to Design Next Generation Anti-Poverty

Programs

Discussant: Thomas Gais

Rockefeller Institute for Government

Social Innovation Fund Overview

Sinead Keegan Mayor's Fund to

Advance New York City

Family Rewards Allegra Blackburn‐Dwyer New York City Center for Economic Opportunity

Project Rise Carson Hicks New York City Center for Economic Opportunity

WorkAdvance Rick Hendra MDRC

Homeland The TSDTP Pilots: Strategies to Better Serve TANF Clients with Disabilities

John Martinez MDRC

TANF-SSI Disability Transition Project: Families Achieving Success Today

Tausha Drain Michigan Department of

Human Services TANF/SSI Disability

Transition Project Boyd Brown

Goodwill/Easter Seals Minnesota

Rada Mosley Los Angeles Department of Public Social Services

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3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Break sponsored by The Jacob France Institute, Merrick School of Business University of Baltimore

BREAKOUT SESSION #6 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Watertable

RESEARCH ACADEMY #2

Facilitated small group process:

What kinds of questions can I answer using small-scale random assignment

studies?

LaDonna Pavetti Center on Budget &

Policy Priorities

Homeland Building the Financial Assets and Literacy of TANF Recipients and Other Low-Income Populations

Jane Delage Minnesota

Department of Human Services

Outcomes of Financial Education for Low‐Income

Participants

Lindsay Nelson Spalding University,

Stacy Deck Spalding University

School of Social Work Strategies to encourage

movement along Asset Continuum

Sara Johnson Baltimore CASH

Campaign The Assets for

Independence Program: Background & Evaluation

Design

Sam Elkin MEF Associates

Kent Exploring the Relationships between TANF, Child Care, and Employment

Letitia Logan University of Maryland

The CCDF Program: Subsidized Child Care for TANF Families and Other

Low Income Families

Sarah Minton Christin Durham Linda Giannarelli

The Urban Institute When Working Mothers

Take CCDF Childcare Subsidies: Do They Earn

More?

Wladimir Zanoni University of Chicago

Data Mining in Los Angeles County: A New

Way to Improve TANF Child Care Program

Integrity

Michael Bono Los Angeles County

Department of Public Social Services

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The Intersection of Research, Public Policy, and Practice: Emerging Trends in Family Homelessness from New York City

Sheri Studebaker Riverside County Department of

Public Social Services

Boomerang Homeless Families: Aggressive

Rehousing Policies in New York City

Ralph da Costa Nunez Institute for Children

Poverty and Homelessness

A New Path: An Immediate Plan to

Reduce Family Homelessness: Emerging

Trends from New York City

Dona Anderson Institute for Children

Poverty and Homelessness

How to Integrate the “New Path” Service Model

into the New York City Shelter System and

Replicate it in Homeless Services throughout the

Country

Aurora Zepeda Homes for the Homeless

Federal Hill Who Cares? Formal and informal kinship care in the context of child-

only TANF support

Peggy Butcher Oklahoma

Department of Human Services

The Diversity of Child-only TANF Cases: Take-up and Case Dynamics among Non-Parent Caregiver,

Ineligible Immigrant Parent, and SSI-parent

Child-Only Cases

Richard Speiglman Child and Family Policy

Institute of California

Non-Parent Caregiver TANF: Is It, and Should It Be, a Replacement for

Foster Care?

Jane Mauldon University of California-

Berkeley

Stepping Up for Kids: What Government and

Communities Should do to Support Kinship Families

Policy Recommendations

Jennifer Miller ChildFocus

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3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Maryland Ballroom (CDF)

Work and Job Search Requirements in Unemployment Insurance,

Disability, and Food Stamps: Lessons from Europe

Swati Desai Rockefeller Institute for

Government

Work and Job Search Requirements in

Unemployment Insurance, Disability, and Food

Stamps: Lessons from Europe

Douglas Besharov University of Maryland

Jason Turner Secretary’s Human Services Innovation

Group Matt Weidinger

US House Committee on Ways and Means

6:30 PM Spirit Cruises dock, Inner Harbor Dinner and conversation aboard a harbor cruise. We’re continuing an Annual Workshop tradition by gathering conference participants in a distinctive local setting to talk about your work in the past year and share your plans for the future. The boat departs promptly at 7:00 am and returns at 10:00. Please plan to board at 6:30 to avoid missing this event. Open to attendees registered for the full Workshop and those pre- registered as guests.

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Maryland Foyer

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Mathematica Policy Research

Maximus MDRC

Public Consulting Group Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse

Urban Institute Welfare Peer TA Network

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9:00 am- 9:15 am Maryland Ballroom (CDF) Announcements

BREAKOUT SESSION #7 ROUNDTABLES 9:15 am -10:30 am Watertable C

Using the Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse (SSRC) to Share Information and Research on

Promising Strategies and Programs

Jeanette Hercik Yvette Lamb

ICF International Timothy Baker

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Speaker, SSRC Technical Working Group

Kent Roundtable Discussion: How should the success of TANF Be measured?

Deborah Joffe, Paul Lefkowitz,

Public Consulting Group

Watertable A Recognize your Clients? Utilizing the Online Work Readiness Assessment

Tool to Better Understand Your Caseload and Inform Decision

Making

Christina Techico Alyson Freedman Daylan Beamon ICF International

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Lessons from the Federal Interagency Re‐entry Council: Working Together to Build Safer and Healthier Communities

Linda Mellgren, ASPE, HHS Ronald Ashford, US Housing & Urban Development John Linton, US Department of Education Thomas Murphy, Juvenile Justice, DOJ Adrienne Noti, Child Support, HHS

Maryland Ballroom How Legislation on Drug Testing Requirements for TANF Impacts

Programs and Clients

Kristen Joyce ASPE, HHS

Steve McCulloch Maryland Department of

Legislative Services

Watertable B Roundtable Discussion on TANF and WIA Integration: Successes and

Challenges

Anthony Ong Regina Serrano

Public Consulting Group

Homeland Improving TANF Recipients’ Access to Education and Training Through

Career Pathways and Other Initiatives

Brendan Kelly, Administration for Children

and Families

10:30 am -10:45 am Break Sponsored by MDRC

BREAKOUT SESSION #7 ROUNDTABLES

10:45 am -12:00 pm Watertable A&B

RESEARCH ACADEMY #3 Brendan Kelly Administration for

Children & Families

How do I actually conduct random

assignment experiments? How do we build state and local capacity to move toward a new

paradigm?

Mike Fishman MEF Associates Karen Gardiner ABT Associates

Homeland Labor Market Analysis: Tools for Identifying High Growth Jobs in States and Local Communities

Levetta Love Colorado

Department of Human Services

Collecting and Leveraging Labor Market Information to Increase

Work Readiness of Vulnerable Populations

Akua Gyabaah ICF International

Sources and Uses of Labor Market Data

Demetra Nightingale, US Department of Labor

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Public Health Initiatives for Vulnerable Populations: What Works and What

Doesn’t?

Arlene Steinbacher Essex County

Division of Employment &

Training

A Promising Practice: Oklahoma's Success in

Delivering An Evidence‐Based Program in the State Correctional

Facilities

Zohre Salehezadeh, Zachary Root

Oklahoma Department of Human Services

Successful Primary Care Programs in Public

Housing: Improving and Sustaining Quality

Healthcare Outcomes

Lloyd Webb Institute of Public Health

Astril Webb North American Management

Homelessness Is Traumatic: Abuse, Victimization and

Trauma Histories of Homeless Men

Stacy Deck Phyllis Platt

Spalding University School of Social Work

Kent Food Insecurity and Eating Patterns Among Low-Income Children and

Families: Research Findings from the SNAP Program

Robin Register North Carolina Department of

Health & Human Services

Food Insecurity across the First Five Years: Triggers of

Onset and Exit

Alison Jacknowitz American University

Food Assistance and Children's Eating Patterns,

Food Insecurity, and Overweight: The Influence

of Local Food Prices

Taryn Morrissey American University

Food Insecurity after Leaving SNAP: Why Does It Get Worse, and What Does It Tell Us about the Program's Effectiveness

Mark Nord Economic Research

Service, USDA

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Maryland Ballroom

Plenary #4: Can Bipartisan, Research-Driven Welfare Reform Exist? Richard Larson, Maryland Department of Human Resources

Lunch provided

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3:00 pm – 5:00 pm NAWRS Board of Directors Meeting Open to NAWRS Board members