Showing events on February 8, 2019
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Creating Resilient Communities: Your Role
February 8, 2019 - 9:00am to 12:15pm
This workshop will introduce participants to the Adverse Childhood Experience study. By highlighting the impact of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress, participants will be able to identify how specific experiences impact the health and social behaviors of individuals.
Michigan ACE's Initiative seeks to share invaluable information about the implications of ACE's in our communities as well strategies for prevention and healing.
Toxic stress experiences by members of target groups will be discussed. Resiliency strategies that professionals and community members can utilize to positively improve outcomes for children and families will be explored.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Philanthropy and Evaluation
February 8, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
This mini-course will focus on issues of contemporary philanthropy and the ways in which both philanthropic entities and their grantees can evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of philanthropic investments.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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The Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Speaker Series presents: The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health
February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sarah Miller's research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health insurance coverage. In addition to her work on health economics, she is also a principal investigator in the Y Combinator Basic Income Randomized Controlled Trial. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicaid, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics, among other journals. She has also been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Economic Report of the President.
Miller is the Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.