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Julie Atkins is a Research Associate
at the Cutler Institute for Child and Family Policy. She has been with the Muskie
School since 1999. In addition to working on the Child Care and
Children with Special Needs project, Julie is currently working on the VAWA
Measuring Effectiveness Initiative. This project focuses on the
identification of performance measures for all programs funded by the
Violence Against Women Office in order to develop reporting instruments and
collect, input and analyze data from grantees for annual reports to
Congress.
Phone: 207-780-5872, Fax: 207-780-5817
E-Mail: jatkins@usm.maine.edu
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Mary Joseph is an
Project Assistant at the Muskie School of Public Service, Cutler Institute
for Child and Family Policy. She currently works on projects in the early
care and education field including Child Care and Children with Special
Needs, and Promoting School Readiness for Children in the Child Welfare System. She also works on the
Colorado Department of Human Services / USM Project. Mary has worked at the University of Southern Maine since March 2000.
Phone: 207-780-5854, Fax:207-780-5817
E-Mail: mjoseph@usm.maine.edu
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Angie Herrick Bordeaux is a Research Analyst at the Cutler Institute
for Child and Family Policy. In addition to the Child Care and Children
with Special Needs project, she works on the Colorado Child
Welfare/Education Curriculum for Case Workers and Supervisors.
Funded by the State of Colorado, Department of Human Services, Office of
Child and Family Services, Division of Child Welfare Services,
the goal of this project is to research,
develop, deliver, and disseminate a train the trainer curriculum for the
State of Colorado child welfare caseworker supervisors which will enable
them to address the educational needs of the children they serve. The
training will increase their understanding of various laws and acts
affecting their coordination with the education system on their client’s
behalf. Angie has worked at the Muskie
School since September 2000. She graduated from the University of Southern
Maine in 2000 with a B.A. in Geography and Anthropology and is currently
working towards her Masters degree in Leadership Studies.
Phone: 207-780-5822, Fax: 207-780-5817
E-Mail:
abordeaux@usm.maine.edu
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Lisa Morris, Co-Principal Investigator and Assistant
Research Professor
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Dr. Lisa Morris is an Assistant Research Professor at the
Muskie School and a Research Associate at the Institute for Child and Family
Policy. Dr. Morris is also a faculty associate with the Center for Social
Development at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She holds
master's degrees in Urban Planning and Public Policy and social work, both
from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She teaches courses in the Public
Policy Analysis curriculum here at Muskie including "Race and Gender,
Politics and Public Policy" and "Applied Policy Analysis". Dr. Morris'
research areas include: family and work; working poverty and welfare reform;
contingent work arrangements and low-skill labor markets; welfare, labor and
work policy; and race and gender in the labor market. Before Lisa came to
Muskie, she was an Assistant Professor at the George Warren Brown School of
Social Work, at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she
taught courses in social policy analysis, gender, race, and poverty, and
political, economic, and social institutions. As a doctoral student and
research associate at the Jordan Institute for Families, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Morris worked on a longitudinal study examining
the impact welfare reform using administrative data from a number of North
Carolina agency file systems. Her welfare reform research in North Carolina
has been funded by grants from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington,
DC as well as grants (with Dr. Dennis Orthner) from the North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services,
Raleigh, NC.
Phone: 207-780-5876, Fax: 207-780-5817
E-Mail:
lmorris@usm.maine.edu
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Helen Ward, Project Director, Co-Principal Investigator and Research Associate
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Helen Ward, J.D., is a Research
Associate at the Cutler Institute for Child and Family Policy. Helen's work in
child and family policy has focused primarily on early care and education;
the implications of welfare policies for families and children; and the
coordination of services for children with special needs. She is
particularly interested in using research to affect decision making by
policy makers at the state level. She joined the Institute in 2000 after
working as a consultant conducting research, policy analysis and evaluation
work on children’s issues. For over thirteen years, Helen served as
Deputy Director for Program at the Connecticut Association for Human
Services (CAHS) and authored a number of publications, including a report on
low birth weight and infant mortality and a comprehensive study of
Connecticut’s child care system. At the Institute she is Project Director
for Muskie’s involvement in an effort at the Ford Foundation to address the
needs of children of the working poor. This work has involved conducting a
series of parent focus groups in Virginia and authoring the report, A
Little Help to Help Us Along, writing a manual for Ford grantees and
others on how to do focus groups of low income
parents and serving on the Learning Team established by Ford to provide
resources and support to those grantees. In addition to the Ford project and
the Child Care and Children with Special Needs project, Helen is the Project
Director for the Colorado Child Welfare/Education Curriculum for Case
Workers and Supervisors, funded by the State of Colorado, Department of
Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services, Division of Child
Welfare Services.
The goal of this project is to research,
develop, deliver, and disseminate a train the trainer curriculum for the
State of Colorado child welfare caseworker supervisors which will enable
them to address the educational needs of the children they serve. The
training will increase their understanding of various laws and acts
affecting their coordination with the education system on their client’s behalf.
Helen earned her college degree from
Oberlin College and her law degree from the Antioch School of Law.
Phone: 207-780-5831, Fax: 207-780-5817
E-Mail:
hward@usm.maine.edu
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