Family Impact Seminars
IGPA joins a national network of eighteen universities to offer the Family Impact Seminars in Illinois. Building on IGPA's existing programs, these new briefings will regularly contribute to knowledge-based dialogue around family policy issues.
The Family Impact Seminars provide evidence-based information to Illinois legislators on pressing family-policy issues that are currently on the legislative agenda. IGPA offers one Family Impact Seminar per legislative session in order to foster an ongoing dialogue about the critical public policy issues which have an impact on Illinois' families.
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars network is directed by Karen Bogenschneider of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here is an informational flyer (PDF 85k), regarding the Wisconsin-Madison program.
Founding partners for the seminars include the Institute for Juvenile Research in the Department of Psychiatry on the Chicago campus and the Department of Human and Community Development and the School of Social Work on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
