Materials from 2010 Symposium - Improving Outcomes for Youth in Transition: A Vision for the Next Decade

Materials from 2010 Symposium - Improving Outcomes for Youth in Transition: A Vision for the Next Decade

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9:10 - 10:30 Research Trends: Youth Aging Out Continue to Face Challenges

What Midwest Evaluation Data Tell Us about Youth as Young Adults 

Mark Courtney, director of research and development, Partners for Our Children, University of Washington

Presentation by Mark Courtney

Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth-2010

Issue Briefs: 

 
Aging Out: Where the Numbers Are Headed and Why 

Fred Wulczyn, research fellow, Chapin Hall, University of Chicago

Presentation by Fred Wulczyn

Ten Lessons Learned in the Ten Years Since Chafee

Madelyn Freundlich, consultant, Excal Consulting

10:45 - 12:15 Findings from the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative:

Hopeful Solutions in the States

Moderator:

Leonard Burton, chief operating officer, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative

Presentation by Leonard Burton

Kate Hanley, director of Adoption and Permanency Services, Michigan Department of

Human Services

Marty Zanghi, director of the Youth and Community Engagement Program at the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine

Diane Zambito, executive director, Connected by 25, Tampa

Mary Nelson, former administrator, division of child and family services, Iowa Department of Human Services

Jeremy Long and Danielle Brunetta, Opportunity PassportTM participants

 1:15 -2:00 Youth-Led Planning for Permanence and Preparation for Adulthood

    Moderator:

Sharon Lowe, trustee, Casey Family Programs and Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, and president & chief executive officer, A Second Chance Inc..

Dianna Walters, former Opportunity PassportTM participant

Transition Planning with Adolescents.Executive Summary

    2:00 - 2:45 State Opportunities in Tough Times: What States Can Do Right Now

    Moderator:

    Judy Meltzer, deputy director, Center for the Study of Social Policy

    Jim Beougher, director, Office of Child and Family Services, Maine Department of Health and Human Services

  • State of Maine - Improving Outcomes for Youth

    • Jamey Bell, executive director, Connecticut Voices for Children

Lisa Guillette, executive director, Rhode Island Foster Parents Association

    3:00 - 3:45 Seizing Federal Policy Opportunities

    Moderator:

    Rob Geen, director of child welfare policy, research, and communications, Annie E. Casey Foundation

    Diedra Henry-Spires, professional staff for human services and income policy,

    Senate Finance Committee

    Becky Shipp, health policy adviser, Senate Finance Committee

    Sonja Nesbit, deputy staff director, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family

    Support, House Ways and Means Committee

    Kathleen Strottman, executive director, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute

    3:45 - 4:00 A Call to Action

    Gary Stangler, executive director, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative

    Frank Farrow, director, Center for the Study of Social Policy

     

     

     

     

     

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