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The Center for Family Policy and Practice is a nonprofit, nonpartisan progressive think tank that provides new thinking around chronic social issues related to race, class, and gender. We advocate for social welfare policies that would benefit every member of low-income families.

 

 

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Who We Are >> Recent Events

2012  
January 29-31 CFFPP returns to New Orleans for ongoing technical assistance with domestic violence advocates and community service providers who are striving to meet the needs of low-income men and women
2011  
November 14-16 CFFPP attends the Office on Violence Against Women’s National Technical Assistance Providers Meeting in Washington, DC
November 8-11 CFFPP attends PolicyLink’s 2011 Equity Summit, “Healthy Communities, Strong Regions, A Prosperous America”
November 1-2 CFFPP attends the 2011 RAISE Texas Learning Forum and Summit
November CFFPP distributes copies of its latest publication on domestic violence, economic stability, and services for low-income communities, called “Safety and Services: Women of color speak about their communities”
October 27-28 CFFPP participates in the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative Planning Meeting
October 24-25 CFFPP continues work in New Orleans, providing technical assistance to domestic violence advocates and community service providers who are striving to meet the needs of low-income men and women
October 24-25 CFFPP provides a plenary presentation on child support and extremely low-income noncustodial parents at the Illinois Family Support Enforcement Association’s Annual Conference
October 20-21 CFFPP attends the 2011 SRABC Conference on “Closing the Wealth Gap: Building Family & Community Economic Success” and participates on a plenary panel discussing asset development barriers for noncustodial fathers
October 5-7 CFFPP attends the YWCA-Madison’s annual Racial Justice Summit, whose 2011 theme was “No Justice, No Peace: A Restorative Approach to Racial Justice,” featuring keynote presentations by Angela Davis and Fania Davis
October 5 CFFPP presents in Washington, DC at Safety and Services: Perspectives from Women of Color on Domestic Violence, Economic (In)stability, and Community, co-sponsored by CFFPP, the Center for American Progress, and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
September 27 CFFPP presents on the barriers child support policy creates for low-income noncustodial parents to the State and Regional Asset Building Coalitions of the Ford Foundation’s Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime Initiative
September 22 CFFPP submits written testimony on TANF to the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee
September 20-22 CFFPP participates in a meeting convened by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges on domestic violence and child support
September 15-16 CFFPP attends and participates in two MensWork events sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
July 13-14 CFFPP continues to participate in the Battered Women’s Justice Project’s national workgroup to identify and explain the context of domestic violence in custody cases
June 29 CFFPP Co-Director Jacquelyn Boggess discusses the issues of “ability to pay” and “right to counsel” in child support cases as a guest on “A Public Affair,” WORT 89.9 FM.
June 28 CFFPP provides training to the YWCA Madison on “Working with Low-Income Women of Color: The Context of Violence and Victimization”
June 22-23 CFFPP hosts a national meeting of fatherhood practitioners, service providers, and domestic violence advocates in Chicago
June 15-17 CFFPP returns to New Orleans to continue providing technical assistance and working with domestic violence advocates and community service providers who are striving to meet the needs of low-income men and women
May 30-June 1 CFFPP attends and presents at the second International Conference on Violence Against Women entitled “Complex Realities and New Issues in a Changing World” in Montreal, Canada
May 16-17 CFFPP holds its annual Board of Directors meeting in Madison, WI
April 20 CFFPP presents a keynote address on “Non-custodial Fathers and the Intersectionality of Poverty, Race, and Social Welfare Policy” at the Geminus Fatherhood Conference in Merrillville, IN
April 13-15 CFFPP attends and presents a plenary at the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan’s “Reverberations of Domestic Violence” conference in Ypsilanti, MI
April 6-7 CFFPP attends and participates on a panel of experts at the Insight Center’s “Color of Wealth Policy Summit” in Washington, DC
April CFFPP releases two reports on child support, non-custodial fathers, and debt, entitled “Child Support Basics” and “Low-Income Fathers and Child Support Debt”
March 23 CFFPP is present to listen to arguments before the US Supreme Court in the Turner v. Rogers case (regarding whether an indigent defendant has a constitutional right to appointed counsel at a civil contempt proceeding that results in his incarceration)
March 18 CFFPP presents a keynote address for the Irving Harris Foundation in Chicago
March 11 CFFPP attends the Institute for Research on Poverty’s “Employment Prospects for Lower Wage Workers: Easing the Implications of a Slow Recovery” conference in Madison
March 9 CFFPP provides training to the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s southeast region on “Advocacy for Low-Income African American Women: The Context Surrounding Violence and Victimization”
March 1-2 CFFPP meets with other Ford Foundation “Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime” grantees in New York
Feb. 28 CFFPP attends an Economic Policy Institute forum on “Understanding the Low Wages of Black Workers” in Washington, DC
February CFFPP disseminates a policy brief “In the Interest of Parents” on child support, ability to pay, and incarceration
Jan. 27 CFFPP Board of Directors meeting
Jan. 24-25 CFFPP attends and presents at the Minnesota Fathers & Families Network annual conference
Jan. 24-26 CFFPP attends the National Child Support Enforcement Association (NCSEA) Policy Forum Conference in Washington, DC
Jan. 24 CFFPP participates in a national workgroup meeting to identify and explain the context of domestic violence in custody cases
Jan. 10-12 CFFPP provides technical assistance and facilitates discussion among domestic violence advocates and community service providers aiming to meet the needs of men in New Orleans