Michigan Family Impact Seminar #8
Across the Challenging Terrain: Welfare Reform and Adolescents
November 4, 2003
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Featured Speakers
Martha Zaslow, Vice President for Research, Child Trends
Welfare Reform’s Impact on Adolescents: Early Warning Signs
Jerrold Brandell, Professor at the School of Social Work, Wayne State University
Adolescent Outcomes and Welfare Reform: Psychological Dynamics and Empirical Results
Jane Zehnder-Merrell, Director of Kids Count in Michigan, Senior Planning/Research Associate at the Michigan League for Human Services
Adolescents and Welfare Reform in Michigan
Additional Chapters/Materials
Overview, by Deborah Smith
Adolescents in Detroit: Their Own Perceptions of How Welfare and Poverty Affects Their Lives, by Eileen Trzcinski
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