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| 5/21/2009 | An Economic Recovery Update: How States Can Use Economic Recovery Funds to Help Child Care |  |  | | How are states using their economic recovery funds to help boost support for child care?
To strategize about how to best utilize the economic recovery funds, the National Women’s Law Center and the CLASP are hosting a conference call.
Speakers:
Bruce Liggett, Executive Director, Arizona Child Care Association
Sessy Nyman, Vice President of Public Policy & Government Affairs, Illinois Action for Children
Sheila Hansen, Policy Director, Child and Family Policy Center
Patty Siegel, Executive Director, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network
Clare S. Richie, Senior Policy Analyst, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
Evelyn Keating, President, Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children
| | | | 4/14/2009 | Identifying Opportunities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Improve Outcomes for Black Men and Boys | | | | Black men and boys face disproportionately negative life outcomes in many domains, particularly education, employment and justice. This audio conference will identify opportunities in the ARRA to provide education, training, and supportive services in a targeted manner to black men and boys.
Sponsored by CLASP and the 2025 Campaign for Black Men and Boys
Speakers:
Gregory Hodge, Co-Chair, City of Oakland, Workforce Investment Board
James A. Williams, Ed.D., Buffalo Public Schools, NY
Terence Mitchell, M.Ed., Illinois Department of Health & Human Services, and Coordinator, Illinois Taskforce on the Condition of the African American Male
| | | | 3/25/2009 | Making the Connection: New Opportunities to Serve Older Youth | | | | Even before the economic downturn, youth in our economically distressed urban and rural communities were hurting. This audio conference will identify opportunities in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to serve older youth and will outline approaches states and local communities should consider to improve youth outcomes.
Speakers:
Mala Thakur, Executive Director, National Youth Employment Coalition
Sally Prouty, Executive Director, The Corps Network
Don Spangler, Policy Advisor, Philadelphia Youth Network
| | | | 3/18/2009 | Making the Employment Connection: New Opportunities to Develop Transitional Jobs Programs | | | | This audio conference will highlight Transitional Jobs programs to help individuals with barriers to employment enter and succeed in the labor market, and will feature new opportunities created through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to develop and expand such programs. It is co-sponsored by the National Transitional Jobs Network.
Speakers:
David A. Hansell, Commissioner, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)
Amy Rynell, Director of the Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty and the National Transitional Jobs Network
Elizabeth Lower-Basch, Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy
| | | | 3/11/2009 | Rebuilding the Safety Net: State and Local Opportunities in Income Support | | | | This audio conference features opportunities for improvements in income support programs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund both provide additional funds for states – but only if they take action to expand program access. The expansion in tax credits for low-income workers also provides opportunities for community tax assistance providers.
Speakers:
Elizabeth Appley, Women’s Policy Group, Georgia
Elizabeth Lower-Basch, CLASP
Stacey Cox, Community Action Agency of New Mexico
| | | | 3/4/2009 | Workforce Development: New Opportunities for Creating Pathways to Good Jobs and Sustainable Employment | | | | This audio conference highlights opportunities created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for addressing the needs of low-skill workers under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and linking training to job creation and retention efforts.
Speakers:
Sandi Vito, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
Carrie Thomas, Associate Director, Chicago Jobs Council
Jason Walsh, National Policy Director, Green For All
| | | | 2/25/2009 | Child Care and Early Education: Opportunities to Serve More Low-Income, Working Families | | | | The audio conference discusses the opportunity for states and local communities to serve more low-income working families and to make long-term investments in quality programs through new investments in child care and early education in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA).
Speakers:
Danielle Ewen, Director of Child Care and Early Education, CLASP
Helen Blank, Director of Leadership and Public Policy, National Women’s Law Center
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