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Please join us for an upcoming Dec. 3rd Webinar: Understanding and Improving Healthcare Systems for Indigenous Peoples. We'll speak with a panel of experts working towards solutions for healthcare disparities: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/und...

📣 There is still time to register for today's webinar: Engaging and Serving Young Fathers, with Tova Walsh, Raheem Brooks, Justin Harty, and Avery Hennigar. Please register to attend the live event or to receive a link to the recording if you can't make it today: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/eng...

🎉 Congratulations to Alison Berube, winner of #2025APPAM Poster Award on "Geographic Variation in Child Support Debt: The Role of Neighborhood Contexts and Mobility." Alison is an IRP Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in Consumer Behavior & Family Economics at UW–Madison. Great work, Alison!

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out Trisha Chanda, a Graduate Research Fellow with IRP at UW-Madison, presenting: “Implications of Consumer Debt for Families Served by Child Support.” Sat 11/15, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Property: Hyatt Regency Seattle, Floor: 7th Floor, Room: 706.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Christal Hamilton, University of Connecticut School of Public Policy, presenting: “Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Policies on Young Adult Hardship.” Sat 11/15, 1:45 to 3:15 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Room: 707.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Elizabeth Rivera, Montclair State University, presenting: “Gentrification, Segregation, and Stratified Opportunity in Urban Schooling.” Sat 11/15, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 5th Flr, Rm 503.

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar Maretta McDonald, Virgina Tech, presenting: “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Examination of Administrative Leniency in SNAP and Child Support Enforcement.” Sat 11/15, 3:30-5pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Flr, Rm 706.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar @khmusen.bsky.social, Dept of Econ at Columbia University, presenting: “Fostering a Gentler Flight from the Nest: Effects of Foster Care Reform on Labor Market Outcomes.” Sat 11/15, 8:30 to 10:00 am, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Rm 707.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Meredith Dost of the Better Government Lab, presenting: “Reducing Administrative Burden through Universal Free Lunch: Effects on Student Outcomes and Political Support for Schools.” Sat 11/15, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Hyatt Regency, Rm 601.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Elizabeth Tong, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington, presenting: “Neighborhood Institutions in Big Data: Exploring Cell-Phone Mobility Data.” 11/15, 10:15 to 11:45 am, Hyatt Regency, 7th Flr, Rm 709

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Clay Fannin, UW-Madison, presenting: “Effects of WIC Physical Presence Requirements on Benefit Redemption: Evidence from Remote Services during COVID-19.” Sat 11/15, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 6th Floor, Room: 603.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Hanna Han, Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, presenting: “All SROs are not created equal: Heterogeneity in school policing.” Sat 11/15, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Property: Hyatt Regency Seattle, Floor: 5th Floor, Rm 503

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Alison Berube, UW-Madison School of Human Ecology, presenting: “Poster #53 - Geographic Variation in Child Support Debt: The Role of Neighborhood Contexts and Mobility.” Sat 11/15, 12:00 to 1:30 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Regency Ballroom.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar @olayusuff.bsky.social, Georgia State University, presenting: “Health Effects of Local and Geographic Access to Mental Health Treatment Facilities.” Sat 11/15, 8:30 to 10:00 am, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 5th Floor, Rm 512

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar @kimbhiguera.bsky.social, California Polytechnic State University, presenting: “Poster #128 - The Uptake of WIC amongst Linguistically Isolated Latinx Households.” Sat 11/15, 12:00 to 1:30 pm, Property: Hyatt Regency, 7th Floor, Regency Ballroom.

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar Anna Walther, UW-Madison’s School of Social Work, presenting: “Expert intermediaries: Family Resource Center staff approaches to resource navigation for low-income families.” 11/15, 8:30-10am, Grand Hyatt, 1st Flr, EA Amphitheater.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar @mattunrath.bsky.social, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, presenting: “Unlocking the Front Door: Reducing Compliance Costs and Improving SNAP Retention through Pre-Population.” 11/15, 3:30-5:00 pm, Grand Hyatt,1st Floor, Rm: Princess 2.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Yoona Kim of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, presenting this paper: “Income Imputation and Child Support Outcomes.” Fri 11/14, 1:45 to 3:15 pm, Property: Hyatt Regency Seattle, Floor: 7th Floor, Room: 706

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out Trisha Chanda, a Graduate Research Fellow w/ IRP at the UW-Madison, presenting: “Who Supports Children Post-Separation? An Analysis of Income Sources by Custody Type in 7 Countries.” 11/14, 1:45-3:15 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Rm 706.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Alberto Ortega, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, presenting: “Reading Wars: May the Phonics Be With You.” Fri 11/14, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Grand Hyatt Seattle, 1st Floor/Lobby Level, Rm Princess 1.

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social, University of California, Berkeley, presenting: “Normative Sexual Citizens: Administrative Burden, Citizen-State Interactions, and Transgender People in the US.” 11/14, 8:30-10am, Grand Hyatt Seattle, EA Amphitheater

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar @courtneemelton.bsky.social of the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis, presenting this paper: “The political geography of workers' rights preemption in the South.” Fri 11/14, 1:45 to 3:15 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Rm 703

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar Joaquin Rubalcaba, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, presenting: “The Difference a Day Makes: Can Changes to US Criminal Misdemeanor Sentencing Influence Deportation and Crime?” 11/14, 1:45-3:15 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, Rm 608

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar Kathryn Taber of UW-Madison’s Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, presenting: “Patterns of Parental Wellbeing Following Child Welfare System Contact: NSCAW Data.” Fri 11/14, 8:30-10:00 am, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 7th Floor, Room: 707

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Heather Little of the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presenting this paper: “Guaranteed Admission at UW–Madison.” Fri 11/14, 10:15 to 11:45am, Property: Grand Hyatt Seattle, Floor: 1st Floor/Lobby Level, Room: Leonesa 3

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Grace Landrum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, presenting: “Invisible” Needs and Hypervisible Families.” Fri 11/14, 8:30 to 10:00am, Property: Hyatt Regency Seattle, Floor: 6th Floor, Room: 603 – Skagit.

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Jamie Koenig of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, presenting this paper: “How Do SSI Recipients Deal With Debt?” Fri 11/14, 8:30 to 10:00am, Property: Hyatt Regency Seattle, Floor: 6th Floor, Room: 601 – Hoh.

Attending #2025APPAM? Join us tonight 11/13, 7-9pm for our annual networking and socializing reception! Location: Grand Hyatt Seattle, Princessa Ballroom

If you are at #2025APPAM, check out IRP scholar Katie Pullom of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, presenting: “The Effects of Safety Net Program Participation on Achievement Measures.” Fri 11/14, 3:30-5:00 pm, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 6th Floor, Room: 601

Attending #2025APPAM? Check out IRP scholar @energymorgan.bsky.social of the UW-Madison’s La Follette School, presenting: “Designing effective and equitable policies for natural gas phaseout in buildings.” Fri 11/14, 8:30-10am, Hyatt Regency Seattle, 5th Floor, Rm 507 – Sauk.