Presentations

Shanks, T., & Jones, D. (2010, November). Shaping policy for low-income families. Professor/practitioner discussion at the University of Michigan School of Social Work’s 90th Anniversary Kick-off, Ann Arbor, MI.

Benn, R., & Shanks, T. (2010, October). Reduce your stress-Improve your life! Hosted by the U of M Health System’s Women’s Health Program, Minority Health Research Program and Program for Multicultural Health, Ann Arbor District Library Mallets Creek Branch, Ann Arbor, MI.

Shanks, T., Aratani, Y., & Robinson, C. (2010, September). Assets, debt, and their developmental consequences for children and youth. CFED 2010 Assets Learning Conference, Washington, D.C.

Shanks, T. R., & Thomason, E. (2010, November). Personal and economic constraints in a pre-school child savings program: Insights from the SEED impact assessment. Paper for the panel, Asset Accounts in Early Childhood: Findings from the Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship, and Downpayment (SEED) Initiative at the 32nd Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference, Boston, MA.

Shanks, T. (2010, August). Assets, household SES, and child well-being over time. Poster presentation at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 2010 Scholars Summer Workshop, Bethesda, MD.

Williams Shanks, T. R., & Destin, M. (2010, June). How trajectories of educational expectations reflect economic inequality. CDS-III and TA New Results Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI.

Romich, J., Shanks, T., Lehman, G., & Reid, C. (2010, January). Personal finance, private risk, profit-taking, and public policy: Toward a research agenda in social welfare and economics. Society for Social Work and Research Roundtable Discussion, San Francisco, CA.

Williams Shanks, T. R., Adams, D., Johnson, T., & Nicoll, K. (2010, January). College savings accounts for low-income children: Early evidence from the SEED demonstration. Paper presentation as part of the panel, Building Assets for Low-Income Children and Youth: Emerging Research and Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice, Society for Social Work and Research, San Francisco, CA.

Saunders, D. G. (2010, November). Finding out what's going on: How to assess motives, impacts, danger levels, and violence typologies in cases of intimate partner violence. Workshop at the Conference "When She Hits Him" at the Annual Meeting of the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan, Pontiac, MI.

Saunders, D. G. (2010, October). Keeping children safe and helping them heal from the wounds of domestic violence. Workshop at the Conference, "Working to End Domestic Violence in Our Community: Challenges, Complexities, and Innovative Practices", Midland County Domestic & Sexual Violence Coordinating Council, Midland, MI.