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Marilyn Armour of the Institute for Balanced and Restorative Justice will discuss the policy implications of moving toward a restorative justice model for juvenile and criminal justice systems.
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The Employees Retirement System of Texas is holding a series of forums addressing the future of state benefits. Dr. David Warner and Sherri Greenberg of the LBJ School will each be moderating Q&A sessions. In addition, Dr. Warner's students are contributing the ERS's interim study of state benefits.
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Panelists will illustrate the benefits of encouraging worksite lactation from policy and business perspectives and discuss best practices for mother-friendly worksites in Texas
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This wide-ranging, frequently funny documentary highlights the intersecting economic, social, and cultural forces that have helped replace mother's milk with formula produced by a billion dollar industry, and reveals the challenges and rewards for women who buck the trend.
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Two recently published books examine the Texas Juvenile Justice System and the state's role – past and present - as the caretaker of youth in state-operated children's homes and juvenile prisons. Sherry Matthews and William Bush write about the thorny problems and life within those institutions from the human and policy perspectives, and they bring to life an aspect of Texas society that isn't often discussed.
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CHASP Director Carolyn Heinrich discusses her research examining the adoption and diffusion of evidence-based pharmaceutical technologies developed to address addiction problems and how her findings are leading to further investigation about what actually works in implementing health care reform.
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CHASP presents the first film in its CHASP Reel Policy series.
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Join CHASP at the LBJ School on Friday, April 15, for a free health screening, including cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure checks.
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Professor Angela Evans discusses how to successfully engage in policy deliberations.

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Sponsored by the Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) and Social, Health, Economic, and Education Policymakers (SHEP)

The Center for Health and Social Policy and Social, Health, Economic, and Education Policymakers present LBJ School Senior Lecturer Michele Deitch, an expert on juvenile justice and criminal justice policy. She will discuss her national research on the prevalence and implications of trying juveniles as adults and incarcerating them in adult prisons and jails.

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the new health care law of the land. Please join us for presentations and discussion featuring expert panelists to provide state and federal perspectives about its impact on Texans.

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CHASP and the Center for Politics and Governance co-hosted "The 82nd Legislature: Preview of Hot Topics," featuring a panel discussion that focused on health and social issues, including immigration, human services, the state budget, and the impact of redistricting in Texas. The panelists were Eva DeLuna Castro, Senior Budget Analyst, Center for Public Policy Priorities; former state representative and current LBJ faculty member Sherri Greenberg, Interim Director, Center for Politics and Governance; Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, Chair, House Committee on Public Health; and Julia Rathgeber, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Lt. Governor.

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Drawing partly on insights gained as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow with the Senate Finance Committee, Dr. Miles will discuss the potential effects of national reforms on health care inequities, generally, and maternity care specifically.

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Dr. Cynthia Osborne discusses the effectiveness Office of the Attorney General's Parenting and Paternity Awareness (p.a.p.a.) Curriculum.

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Dr. Paul von Hippel discusses research suggesting that schools play an important role in reducing inequality among children.

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Did you know that four of the 10 most obese cities in the U.S. are in Texas? Join Dr. Adolfo Valadez, Assistant Commissioner for Prevention and Preparedness Services at the Department of State Health Services, as he discusses systemic changes that will impact the obesity epidemic in Texas.

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View the Department of State Health Services' "Texas! Bringing Healthy Back:Growing Community" video series.

Read the Strategic Plan for the Prevention of Obesity in Texas, 2005-2010

Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge, room C1.111, 12:15-2:15
Please join us as Vicki Spriggs, Executive Director of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC), provides an overview of the state agency that establishes standards and provides funds, training, and technical assistance for the 168 juvenile probation office in Texas, and insight into how the Texas Juvenile Justice System works.

Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge, room C1.111, 12:15-2:15, February 18, 2010
Every minute a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth (2005 estimates). Each year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal death. Please join us as Wilda Campbell discusses maternal health progress in Nepal as part of the efforts worldwide to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge, room C1.111, 12:15-2:15
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine released Emergency Medical Services at The Crossroads, reporting the state of EMS (ambulance) systems over the 40 years of their formal existence. CHASP will host EMS system expert Dave Williams to walk you through the development and evolution of modern ambulance systems and present his ideas about how EMS services are uniquely positioned at the crossroads of public health, public safety, and health care. He will also present often preventable issues that are placing lives and health at risk every day; especially in the case of a disaster or epidemic like H1N1.

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What is the process for responding to an emergent public health threat? How are immunizations developed and distributed? What is the public impact of this process? Join us for a panel discussion about managing the H1N1 Virus. Moderated by CHASP Professor Dr. Benedicte Callan, formerly of the OECD; our panel will feature Adolfo Valadez, Assistant Commissioner for Prevention and Preparedness Services at the Texas Department of State Health Services; Dr. Thomas Erlinger, Director of Research Administration, Infection Prevention and Epidemiology, Seton Hospital Network; Dr. Maria Croyle, UT Pharmacy professor and expert on vaccine development strategies; and Dr. Lauren Meyers, UT professor in Integrative Biology, and expert on the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.

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Child support can be one of the most important sources of income in assisting single parent households to escape from poverty. Many non-Custodial Parents are unable to meet their financial obligations, however, due to unemployment or underemployment. CHASP will host Dr. Daniel Schroeder of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources to present findings from his evaluation of the NCP Choices Program that provides employment services linked to enhanced child support monitoring to low-income non-custodial parents (NCPs) who have fallen behind on their child support payments.

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Who owns the genes that are in bio-banks? How should they be used? Please join us as Dr. Benedicte Callan discusses how the advent of the sequencing of the human genome and the identification of the function of thousands of genes has sparked international debate about how this information should be accessed and exploited. Download Presentation (powerpoint).

Clinical Education Centrer at Brackenridge, room C1.111, 12:15-2:15
Dr. Rebeca Wong, Director of the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization Collaborating Center on Aging and Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, will discuss her latest research that examines the health of migrants returning to Mexico from the U.S. and their abiity to access and afford health care as they live out their old age. Download Presentation.

J.J. Pickle Research Center, Commons Conference Center
CHASP and the LBJ School are collaborating with the University of Texas, Brookings Institution and several other organizations to host this half-day symposium that focuses on various perspectives for improving health care in Texas. For additional information, visit the event page.

Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge, room C1.111, 12:15-2:15
Did you know that spending for health and human services in Texas accounts for about a third of the entire state budget? Join CHASP as we host a panel of policy experts to discuss critical health and human services legislation from the 81st Texas Legislature. Featured speakers Eva De Luna Castro, Senior Budget Analyst, Center for Public Policy Priorities; Stephen Palmer, Texas Health Care Policy Council, Office of Gov. Rick Perry; and Heather Vasek, Long-Term Care expert with Delisi Communications, will provide different perspectives of the impact of a few critical laws affecting health and human services.

Hosted by CHASP and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and organized in part by LBJ professor Jacqueline Angel, the Conference Series on Aging in the Americas (CAA) is aimed at increasing knowledge through research about people of Mexican descent and identifying and fostering emerging scholars in the field during a time when the topic is quickly arising as a crucial policy and national budget issue.

Based on past conference attendance by scholars and students from all over the United States and Mexico, the CAA series is certain to draw a dynamic and multidisciplinary group in the conferences planned for 2007 and 2008.  Specifically, the conferences will focus two main areas that will contribute to the development of innovative research and social policies with respect to healthful aging in the population of people of Mexican descent:  Psychosocial and Behavioral Health and Epidemiology of Disability and Healthy Life Expectancy.  The conferences will consist of six plenary speakers and two keynotes. The speakers for the conference are leaders in their respective fields with extensive experience studying people of Mexican origin.  Each conference will conclude with a consensus building session on next steps and reviewing key issues raised during the conference.
For additional information about the CAA series and to read conference materials, visit the conference website:  http://www.prc.utexas.edu/caa/.

CHASP is hosting "Practice What We Teach: A Conference of Graduate Student Work in Education" at the Thompson Conference Center Auditorium. This event will be co-hosted by the Texas Center for Education Policy, the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, the UT School of Education, the Charles A. Dana Center, and the University Council for Educational Administration. Students will present their research in education and hold question and answer sessions. Read More >

Did you know that adolescents in detention and correctional facilities are about 10 times more likely to suffer from psychosis than the general adolescent population? Join us as Steve Spencer, Director of Behavioral Health at the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, talks about policies for addressing mental health problems among young offenders.

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Join us as panelists Jodie Smith of Texans Care for Children; Kalese Hammonds of the Texas Public Policy Foundation; and Texas Representative Patrick Rose, Chair of the House Committee on Human Services, share their perspectives about how to address some of the issues facing Texas children, such as poverty and limited access to health care. Panelists will outline their legislative priorities for the 81st Texas Legislative Session. Read More >

Karl Urban and Nora Douglas of Texas Adult Protective Services Program, which helps provide a safety net for the elderly and adults with disabilities, will provide a brief history of the program reformation that began in 2004, a progress report about how well the program is working now, and some recommendations for the future.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs' Center for Health and Social Policy and the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law will welcome Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum on Oct. 30 for a conversation titled "From the American People: Health and U.S. Foreign Policy" as part of the Elspeth Rostow Distinguished Lecture Series for Public Policy Leadership. Read more >

Director of Friends of the Global Fight (against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria), Natasha Bilimoria will discuss worldwide efforts to address public health issues. Learn More >

CHASP and FamilyConnections are co-hosting a Post-Partum Depression Summit. The event will be from 8:00-4:00 at the Thompson Conference Center Auditorium. Break-out sessions for discussion will follow.

The Center for Health and Social Policy, in collaboration with Raising Texas, is featuring a presentation by Dr. Walter Gilliam, Director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, on his national research on preschool expulsion rates in state-funded programs. Read More >

CHASP will host “Medicare: Past, Present and Future,” a conference featuring nationally renowned Medicare experts, including Mark McClellan, former Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services Director, and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag.  Sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the conference is one event in a series to commemorate the centennial birthday of Lyndon Johnson. Read More >

Anne Baddour of Texas Appleseed (http://www.texasappleseed.net/), Woody Widrow of RAISE Texas (http://www.covenantcapital.org/html/publicpolicy/idanetwork.html) and Don Baylor of the Center for Public Policy Priorities (http://www.cppp.org/) gave a presentation, "From Benefits to Bootstraps: Asset-Building as a Poverty Reduction Strategy," on March 28.

Cheryl Perry, Professor and Regional Dean, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, and Eduardo Sanchez, Director, Institute for Health Policy, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, talked about the new regional campus, founded in 2007, as well as the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living and the Institute for Health Policy. Dr. Perry also discussed CATCH (a Coordinated Approach To Child Health), a project funded in all Travis County elementary schools to address childhood fitness and nutrition.

Dr. Cynthia Osborne of the LBJ School questioned the efficacy of state and federal policies intended to promote marriage as a means to protect children in her presentation, "To Wed or Not to Wed: Should the US Promote Marriage?" on January 25.

On November 30, 2007, a panel of education research experts discussed how their research has impacted education policy and practice. Panelists featured were:

• Dr. Celeste Alexander, Department of Educational Administration
  "Houston Schools for a New Society: A Study of High School Restructuring"
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• Dr. Ed Fuller, University Council for Educational Administration
  "Principal Turnover and the Effect on Teacher Turnover and Student Achievement"
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• Dr. Chris King, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
  "Education and Work After High School: First Look at the Central Texas Class of 2006"
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• Dr. Pam Paek, Research Associate, Charles A. Dana Center
  "Perspectives of mathematics achievement: implications for educational policy and practices at the local, state, and national level"
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• Dr. Michelle Young, Executive Director, University Council for Educational Leadership
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On October 26, Eva De Luna Castro, Senior Budget Analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities (http://www.cppp.org/) presented “On the Razor’s Edge: Texas Families and Economic Insecurity.”

In August 2007, CHASP co-hosted an important conference, "The First Nine Months of Fatherhood," a national conference on emerging research and practice on the prenatal contributions of fathers.

The center proudly co-hosted the university's inaugural conference on Gender, Globalization and Governance, held at the Law School on April 12-13, 2007. The conference considered the role of state and other governance models in crafting gender policy, contributing to debates about how international and national policymakers negotiate the changing global order.

On March 30, 2007, LBJ Professor David Warner and the students in his policy research project on options for providing Medicare coverage for US Retirees in Mexico hosted a conference to present their findings from site visits to several retirement communities in Mexico and a survey of approximately 1000 retirees.

On March 23 CHASP featured a panel presentation and discussion about measurements of success of delivery and coordination of mental health care services.  The panel included LBJ professor Pat Wong, director of a policy research project to evaluate the transformation of Texas’ mental health system (http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/students/view_course.php?cid=395); Judy Willgren, director of the Raising Texas (http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/si/oecc/oecc_home.html) initiative to coordinate services for children statewide; and David Marcotte, (http://www.umbc.edu/pubpol/Bios/DaveMarcotte.html) Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland – Baltimore County, and expert in the evaluation of social services systems.

On February 8, Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, presented “Medicaid Makeover,” (http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/webcasts/movie/51/) outlining his ideas for innovative strategies that would make Medicaid more cost effective and efficient when delivering critical health care to millions of low-income Americans.

CHASP hosted a panel on December 8 to discuss legislation likely to be considered during Texas’ 80th Legislative Session, which convened in January 2007.  Guests on the panel included Amy Herzog, Senate Health and Human Services Committee Director; Troy Alexander, Senior Policy Analyst for Health and Human Services for House Speaker Tom Craddick; Eva DeLuna Castro, Senior Budget Analyst, Center for Public Policy Priorities; Dan Finch, Director of Legislative Affairs, Texas Medical Association; and Jennifer Banda, director of advocacy and public policy, Texas Hospital Association.

On November 3, Dr. Ken Shine, Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for the University of Texas System, and senior advisor of the Task Force for Access to Health Care in Texas that produced Code Red: The Critical Condition of Health in Texas, presented “Code Red: Improving the Health of Texans,” focusing on options for addressing Texas’ high uninsured rate and the use of Electronic Health Records to improve access to care and patient safety. 

Kicking off the series was DeAnn Friedholm, with her September 29 presentation, “The New South Africa: Transforming Social and Health Services for Today’s Needs.” Ms. Friedholm gave a broad overview of critical health and human services issues in South Africa and then focused on her work with the government to restructure the social grants/services system to meet new challenges.