The Aspen Institute will host a half-day session on January 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. as part of the five-year anniversary celebration of the UpSkill America initiative. Speakers from the business community, policy makers, researchers, and upskilling program graduates will discuss lessons learned from the Upskill America initiative, identify innovative approaches for upskilling, review common challenges to implement upskilling initiatives, and explore the future of this initiative. Registration for this free event is available on the Aspen Institute website.

The National Skills Coalition will convene its annual Skills Summit from February 3 to February 5, 2020 in Washington, D.C. The Skills Summit will include networking opportunities with workforce leaders, updates on federal workforce policy from both agency and Capitol Hill perspectives, as well as interactive policy development sessions on the future of work that covers digital literacy, business engagement, and reemployment. Registration for the summit is available on the National Skills Coalition website.

Despite decreasing child poverty rates over the last 50 years, 9.7 million U.S. children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. The Center for Poverty Research, University of California-Davis, will host a live presentation on January 16, 2020 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. PT at the Center’s Sacramento location to discuss a report from the National Academy of Sciences on child poverty. During this presentation, a University of California-Irvine professor will highlight causal evidence on the consequences of poverty on children’s development and research on anti-poverty programs’ impact on children. He will also review poverty reduction and employment changes for various policy approaches aimed at reducing child poverty by half over the next decade.

The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison will host a live presentation on December 5, 2019 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET to discuss research findings about the impact of removing children from families under investigation for abuse or neglect. The presentation will cover findings of home removal for young children under the age of 6 and the measurable gains in test scores and reductions in grade repetition for young girls. The presentation will also reflect the long-term impacts that home removal has on the social and emotional well-being of both boys and girls. The research is drawn from a review of two decades of child protective service records in Rhode Island.

The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host a presentation by Sarah Halpern Meekin, Associate Professor, School of Human Ecology, as part of the Institute’s Poverty Seminar Series on October 31, 2019 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET. The discussion will cover her research on the definition of social poverty and need for social capital among low-income families.

The Social Enterprise Alliance will hold its annual summit in Chicago from September 9 to September 11, 2019. The conference will include social enterprise leaders, funders, and champions and cover topics on capital, impact, marketing, and marketplaces, as well as offer networking opportunities among social enterprises from across the country.

The National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics will hold its bi-annual workshop on July 28 to July 31, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This workshop will feature examples of rigorous research methods used to evaluate programs and highlight opportunities to use administrative data for decision making. Additionally, there will be presentations on child support, early childhood education, child care, foster care, substance abuse, trauma-informed services, coaching, reentry service coordination, behavior interventions, workforce programs including SNAP E&T, career pathways, and other topics.

The Aspen Institute will host an in-person and livestream event on June 13, 2019 in Washington, D.C. from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. ET to discuss the challenges of providing quality jobs and the policies and practices involved. Speakers include Aspen Institute Job Quality Fellows, who are drawn from the business, community development, and workforce and policy development arenas, as well as an Urban Institute researcher.

The Administration for Children and Families will hold the annual National Fatherhood Summit from June 4 to June 6, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Speakers in general and breakout sessions will highlight research findings, share promising practices, and discuss the role of fathers in families, communities, and society at large.

On April 2, 2019, the Urban Institute and Forum for Youth Investment will convene a panel in Washington, D.C. to present how federal, state, and local government officials use evidence to improve program and policy processes. Further, the discussion will cover how evidence-based approaches can be used in the implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act.