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Presenters: Tom Kaplan, Ph.D., representing the Institute for Poverty Research at University of Wisconsin; Deborah Tootle, Ph.D., representing the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University; Jocelyn B. Richgels, Ph.D., representing the Rural Policy Research Institute, administered jointly by Iowa State University, University of Missouri and University of Nebraska; Rich Huddleston, Ph.D., Executive Director, ARK Advocates for Children and Families.
The purpose of this session is to further the knowledge of federally supported Poverty Centers and the resources available to scholars through the Centers, by listening to and interacting with a panel of leader-representatives from each of the Centers.
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars aims to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge and researchers with policy knowledge. The Institute provides nonpartisan, solution-oriented research and a family impact perspective on issues being debated in state legislatures. We provide technical assistance to and facilitate dialogue among professionals conducting Family Impact Seminars in 27 sites across the country.
This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite much contrary evidence, the authors propose there is a way of doing public policy in a more reflective manner, and that a hunger for evidence and objectivity does exist.
