National Association of Counties * Washington, D.C.            Vol. 31, No. 9 * May 10, 1999

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CONFERENCES

• Don’t miss "Working With America’s Youth" July 25–28, in Minneapolis. This multidisciplinary training conference will feature skill-building workshops, proven program models and timely resources exhibits. The conference is designed for professionals and volunteers who are committed to serving youth and their families.
  For more information, call Rhoda Baker at the National Center for Youth Services at 918/585-2986.
  

PUBLICATIONS

• "Uncle Sam’s Telecommunications Directory" is an easy-to-use guide to U.S. government offices (and embassies as well) in Washington and the various federal regions. Among the comfortable features are: a loose-leaf format, large easy–to–read print, a variety of communication modes including physical address, telephone, fax, TTY, Internet, and e-mail, arranged within agency by division, bureau, etc.
  Available on CD or hard copy.
  To order your copy send $195 plus $5 S/H to InfoSearch, Ltd. 1110 Fidler Lane, Ste. 1519, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
  
  
• The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) just released its conference report titled "Society and Information Infrastructure: The Next Generation." The report offers insight into how society is using information technology as well as emerging societal and technological trends that will change our lives in the 21st century.
  For a copy of the report, call 202/482-2048 or visit the NTIA Web site www.ntia.doc.gov.
  
  
• Mathematica Policy Research’s most recent publications are now available in electronic form on their Web site at www.mathematica-mpr.com. Printed copies are also available. To order, contact Publications, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., P.O. Box 2393, Princeton, NJ 08543-2393; phone: 609/275-2350, e-mail: library-nj@mathematica-mpr.com.
  • "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Iowa’s Family Investment Program: Two-Year Results." (Executive summary and full report available.) Assesses the costs and benefits of Iowa’s welfare reform from a range of perspectives.
  http://www.Mathematica-MPR.COM/iowareports.htm
  • "Iowa’s Family Investment Program: Two-Year Impacts." (Executive summary and full report available.) Looks at the first two years after welfare reform in Iowa, examining impacts on employment, earnings, FIP participation and benefits, food stamp participation rates and benefit amounts. http://www.Mathematica-MPR.COM/iowareports.htm
  • "What Will the States Do When Jobs Are Not Plentiful? Policy and
  Implementation Challenges." Paper prepared for the Welfare Reform and the Macro-Economy Conference organized by the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
  http://www.jcpr.org/pavetti.html
  •"Employment Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs: Is
  Targeting Possible?" Provides useful information to program operators
  and policymakers on labor force attachment of welfare recipients. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/EMP-EXP.PDF
  • "Moving Teenage Parents in Self-Sufficiency: Lessons from Recent
  Demonstrations." Synthesizes findings from three demonstrations to help
  states and local agencies develop and implement policies for teenage
  parents. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/tpd/synthes/index.htm
  • "Emergency Unemployment Compensation: The 1990s Experience." Reviews the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which paid federally funded extended benefits to UI recipients from 1991 to 1994. http://www.Mathematica-MPR.COM/emertoc.htm
  
  

OTHER RESOURCES

• The Bollinger Foundation, a foundation created by the Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED), is accepting nominations for financial grants for the education and support of children who have lost a parent in families where either the mother or father worked in the field of public housing, community development or economic development.
  Send all nominations to the Bollinger Foundation, c/o CUED, 1730 K Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006. For more information, call Jeff Finkle at 202/223-4735 or visit CUED’s Web site: www.cued.org/bollinger/.
  
  
• "Where Do We Go From Here? Smart Growth and Choices for Change" is the first in a four-part exhibition series examining alternatives to current patterns of development, which recently opened at the National Building Museum. The exhibition, co-sponsored by the Urban Institute, provides an overview of the causes of sprawl and the ways smart growth can help development as it preserves community character, protects the environment, and encourages stable local economies. The exhibit will run through Sept. 7. The museum is open Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
  For more information call 202/272-2448 or visit their Web site: www.nbm.org.