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| “Welfare-to-Work” (February 23, 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m) | |||
| How has welfare reform affected children’s lives in terms of access to quality health care and childcare? While many children remain on waiting lists for subsidized care, parents are formed to quilt together a patchwork of care options (family, drop-in child care where available, kids left in cars, etc). Should families with young children be exempted from welfare time limits and if so, what would be the economic impact of those exemptions? | |||
| "Guest Bios and Links" | |||
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| Harriet Ludwig |
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| Harriet Ludwig has reported on civil rights, education, health and social services for newspapers, both mainstream and alternative, for more than 50 years. She also mentors a young welfare mother with three children and has monitored the Gainesville-area welfare reform program since it began in 1996. She chaired the Social Policy Committee of the Alachua County/Gainesville League of Women Voters, which conducted several workshops on the impact of welfare reform on women and children. Among the numerous awards she has received for my writing and social action, she is most proud of the Child Advocacy Award for Intergenerational Leadership from the Florida Center for Children and Youth, 1997, and the National Public Citizen of the Year Award from the National Association of Social Workers, 2000. Harriet currently reports for MOON Magazine, an alternative newspaper published in Gainesville, and writes op-ed pieces for the Gainesville Sun. She doesn't mind sharing that she is 75 years old with five adult children, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren and she doesn't intend to retire - ever! | |||
| Edward L. Jennings, Jr. |
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 Edward
L. Jennings, Jr. is Florida House District 23 Representative.
A democrat, Jennings' committee memberships include the House Education
Innovation, Information Technology and Transportation and Economic
Development Appropriations committees. He holds leadership and/or
advisory positions with several Alachua County organizations including
Heritage 100, Leadership 2000, East Gainesville Development Task Force,
and Healthy Communities Initiative. For a complete listing of Rep.
Jennings involvements, see [ Sunshine
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| Mark Williams |
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| Mark Williams supervises all Economic Self-Sufficiency Services for the Department of Children and Families eleven-county district 3, based in Gainesville. Previously, he worked in the alcohol, drug abuse and mental health program office. His specialized training includes graduate education in guidance and counseling from the University of Houston. Mr. Williams is a certified behavior analyst. | |||
| Alexandra Harris |
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| Alexandra Harris is in her seventh year as a Community Employment Specialist for Santa Fe Community College which is part of the Welfare Transition Program in Alachua County. She teaches "From Welfare to Well-Being Workshops" in her own unique way, and says 90% of those who complete her workshops find jobs. She has been a single mother of two for thirteen years and says that much of what she teaches are concepts that she practices in my own life. Alexandra has also done some planning for the opening of SPARC'S Transition House - developing programs to transition women and children from domestic violence to violence-free living. | |||
| Doris Martin |
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| Doris Martin is the Customer Services Team Leader for Child Care Resources (www.ccresources.org). She has held this position for ten years and assists those who have been deemed eligible for subsidized care find childcare. She is the proud mother of one son and is active in her son's School Advisory Committee (SAC) and the PTA. Doris also manages a youth basketball team. | |||
| Dr. Courts |
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Dr.
Courts has been in the dental profession for more than 20 years, having
devoted most of that time to promoting the dental health of children.
 He is an associate professor and chair of pediatric dentistry at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. Before Dr. Courts joined the UF faculty in 1980, he was in private practice part time and a part-time assistant professor in the department of pedodontics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned a doctorate in immunology and microbiology in 1980 from UNC, where he also did his residency training in pediatric dentistry and earned a doctor of dental science degree in 1975. Dr. Courts has balanced being an administrator, professor, clinician and researcher while serving on numerous college of and university committees, many of which he has chaired. Dr. Courts is very involved in promoting the dental health of underserved children. He was influential in reviving an event now called the Gordon Mattison Health Fair, which is scheduled to become annual. He also worked hard to make sure children's dental care was included in the services offered at the Shands Eastside Community Practice. This center, built in an area of Gainesville that has been neglected, serves as a state and national model of community in action to provide health-care services to underserved areas. He is a member of many professional organizations including the American Dental Association, the International Association of Dental Research, the American Society of Dentistry for Children, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the Florida Dental Association. He has served on numerous professional committees and is a fellow in the American College of Dentists and a reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Courts is a member of the Statewide Dental Coordinating Council, which aims to boost the dental care of Florida's children. Dr. Courts contributions to pediatric dentistry include his discovery that when a child loses a tooth through accidental injury, commercial milk is the best of various liquid solutions for storing the tooth in a condition ideal for reimplantation. His research also looks at the role a common antibody called IgA (found in salvia) plays in susceptibility to oral disease. His current research interests have focused on the diagnosis prevention and treatment of early childhood caries, a severe form of dental decay that begins soon after teeth come into the mouth. With other UF researchers, Dr. Courts developed teaching modules on periodontal disease in children, common oral habits, behavioral management of the child patient and oral indications of systemic diseases. More recently he developed guidelines for dentists to help prevent dental phobia that stems from childhood anxiety. His love of computer technology led him to develop database software that currently is being used by several state dental examiners. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 book chapters, journal articles or abstracts. |
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