Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives: Promotional Indicators Forum

A Summary of a Meeting Attended by Grantees of the Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives Project and the STATES Initiative/Family Support America Project

Saint Paul, February 3 & 4, 2000

The host for the meeting was the Minnesota KIDS Initiative. Janel Harris of the Minnesota Department of Health is the KIDS Initiative Principal Investigator and Beth Haney, now of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, was the Project Consultant. The Advancing States Child Indicator Initiatives project is supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Martha Moorehouse is the Project Officer. Harold Richman of Chapin Hallis the Principal Investigator for the Advancing States' Child Indicator Initiatives project and Mairéad Reidy is the Project Director. The STATES Initiative/Family Support America project is an initiative of Family Support America (formerly the Family Resource Coalition of America) and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. David Diehl, Gail Koser, and Rob Rosenkrantz are the primary staff supporting the Cross-State Work Team on Promotional Indicators, a group that has been working on this issue for some time.

The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago prepared this summary. This paper is downloadable from the Chapin Hall web site.

Chapin Hall Working Paper CS-61
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