Federal Family Impact Seminar Reports
The Family Impact Seminar was established in 1976 to promote a family perspective in public policies and programs and to build capacity for family centered policymaking. From 1976 to 1998, Directors A. Sidney Johnson and Theodora Ooms engaged in a number of activities to achieve these aims. For example, the Family Impact Seminar conducted 14 field studies in collaboration with community organizations to assess the family impact of policies and programs, published 7 family impact analyses of federal legislation, and presented 42 seminars for federal policymakers in Washington, DC on a wide range of family issues. A 50- to 75- page background briefing report was prepared to accompany each seminar.
Family Impact Seminars
| Seminar |
Date |
Topic |
| FIS 1 |
November 1988 |
Young, Unwed Fathers and Welfare Reform |
| FIS 2 |
January 1989 |
Child Care Market: Supply, Demand, Price and Expenditures |
| FIS 3 |
February 1989 |
The Unique Health Needs of Adolescents: Implications for Health Care Insurance and Financing |
| FIS 4 |
March 1989 |
Quality in Child Care: What is it and How Can it Be Encouraged? |
| FIS 5 |
April 1989 |
Federal Child Care Policy: Current and Proposed |
| FIS 6 |
May 1989 |
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Programs: What Have We Learned? |
| FIS 7 |
July 1989 |
Integrated Approaches to Youths’ Health Problems: Federal, State and Community Roles |
| FIS 8 |
October 1989 |
Teenage Parenthood, Poverty, and Dependency: Do We Know How to Help? |
| FIS 9 |
November 1989 |
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment: Evolving Policy at Federal, State, and Local Levels |
| FIS 10 |
January 1990 |
The Crisis in Foster Care: New Directions for the 1990s |
| FIS 11 |
March 1990 |
Implementation of P.L. 99-457: Parent/Professional Partnership in Early Intervention |
| FIS 12 |
April 1990 |
Drugs, Mothers, Kids and Ways to Cope |
| FIS 13 |
May 1990 |
Implementing Child Care in the Family Support Act |
| FIS 14 |
June 1990 |
Keeping Troubled Families Together: Promising Programs and Statewide Reform |
| FIS 15 |
July 1990 |
Evolving State Policies on Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood: What More Can the Feds Do to Help? |
| FIS 16 |
September 1990 |
Parents’ Role in Teenage Health Problems: Allies or Adversaries? |
| FIS 17 |
November 1990 |
Encouraging Unwed Fathers to Be Responsible: Paternity Establishment, Child Support, and JOBS Strategies |
| FIS 18 |
January 1991 |
Child Care in the 101st Congress: What Was Achieved and How Will It Work? |
| FIS 19 |
March 1991 |
Teenage Mothers and the Family Support Act: What Works–“Carrots” or “Sticks”? |
| FIS 20 |
July 1991 |
Promoting Adolescent Health and Well-Being Through School-Linked, Multi-Service, Family-Friendly Program |
| FIS 21 |
September 1991 |
Coordination, Collaboration, Integration: Strategies for Serving Families More Effectively |
| FIS 22 |
October 1991 |
Family Resource, Support, and Parent Education Programs: The Power of a Preventive Approach |
| FIS 23 |
December 1991 |
Coordination, Collaboration, Integration: Strategies for Serving Families More Effectively |
| FIS 24 |
February 1992 |
Family-School Partnership: A Critical Component of School Reform |
| FIS 25 |
April 1992 |
Service Integration and Coordination at the Family/Client Level: Part Three: Is Case Management the Answer |
| FIS 26 |
July 1992 |
Families in Poverty: Patterns, Contexts, and Implications for Policy |
| FIS 27 |
September 1992 |
Latino Families, Poverty, and Welfare Reform |
| FIS 28 |
December 1992 |
Reducing Family Poverty: Tax-Based and Child Support Strategies |
| FIS 29 |
February 1993 |
Employment and Training Strategies to Reduce Family Poverty |
| FIS 30 |
June 1993 |
Training and Technical Assistance to Support Family-Centered, Integrated Services Reform |
| FIS 31 |
September 1993 |
Data Integration and Evaluation: Essential Components of Family-Centered Systems Reform |
| FIS 32 |
February 1994 |
Looking Ahead: The Promise of Head Start as a Comprehensive Family Support Program |
| FIS 33 |
April 1994 |
Head Start: A Key Partner in System Reform? |
| FIS 34 |
June 1994 |
Literacy and Welfare Reform: Are We Making the Connection? |
| FIS 35 |
November 1994 |
Children’s Mental Health Services: Policy Implications of the New Paradigm |
| FIS 36 |
June 1995 |
Disconnected Dads: Strategies for Promoting Responsible Fatherhood |
| FIS 37 |
September 1995 |
Housing Policy and Family Self-Sufficiency |
| FIS 38 |
December 1995 |
Comprehensive Community-Building Initiatives: A Strategy to Strengthen Family Capital |
| FIS 39 |
September 1996 |
Housing is Not Enough: Helping Homeless Families Achieve Self-Sufficiency |
| FIS 40 |
February 1997 |
Child Abuse Prevention: New Partnerships for Protecting Children and Supporting Families |
| FIS 41 |
October 1997 |
Immigrant Families and Welfare Reform |
| FIS 42 |
May 1998 |
Finding Families for Waiting Kids: The Challenge of Special Needs Adoption in the 90’s and Beyond |
Supplemental Reports
Toward an Inventory of Federal Program with Direct Impact on Families (Family Impact Seminar, 1978)
Interim Report of the Family Impact Seminar (Family Impact Seminar, 1978)
Recommendations to the White House Conference on Families (Family Impact Seminar, 1980)
A Strategy for Strengthening Families: Using Family Criteria in Policymaking and Evaluation (Theodora Ooms and Steven Preister, 1988)
From “Good Enough” to “Best Possible”: An Assessment Tool for the Child and Family Services Plan (Elena Cohen and Theodora Ooms, 1993)
Taking Families Seriously: Family Impact Analysis As An Essential Policy Tool (Theodora Ooms, 1995)
Where is the Family in Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families? (Family Impact Seminar, 1996)
Summary Report: Coming Together for Children and Families: How Cabinet-Level Collaboration is Changing State Policymaking (Family Impact Seminar, 1998)
Coming Together for Children and Families: How Cabinet-Level Collaboration is Changing State Policymaking (Family Impact Seminar, 1998)
Toward More Perfect Unions Putting Marriage on the Public Agenda (Family Impact Seminar, 1998)
Building Bridges Between Healthy Marriage Responsible Fatherhood and Domestic Violence Programs (Center for Law and Social Policy and National Conference of State Legislators, 2006)
