Family Impact Seminars were created to better connect research and policy in an effort to promote a family perspective in policymaking. The model includes developing a partnership with key state legislators to join with university faculty in identifying family related state-level problems, possible policy solutions, and political feasibility. This partnership culminates in a topic specific annual seminar, with briefing reports and discussion sessions, and serves as a resource for state policymakers by providing them with access to nonpartisan, solution-oriented research on a current policy issue that they are actively debating, such as education, health care, mental health care, and child care. The Virginia Family Impact Seminars are housed in the Center for Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Pictures from the Fall 2008 Virginia Seminar
Virginia Family Impact Seminars Co-directors:
Dr. Janet R. Hutchinson |
Dr. Mary Secret |
Dr. Ann Nichols-Casebolt acasebol@vcu.edu |