Center for Families

Record Amount of Legislators Attend Family Impact Seminar

On November 17, a record amount of Indiana legislators, their staff, and key decision makers gathered at the Statehouse at the annual Family Impact Seminar. Speakers Jeanne Hogarth, program manager for consumer education and research at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., and Melissa Koide, deputy director for the Asset Building Program, New America Foundation, Washington, D.C., informed attendees of the financial burdens that Indiana families are currently facing, while also providing multiple policy options that have been beneficial to other states facing the same issues. 

Click here to review the 2008 Seminar Briefing Report.  

This year, Senator Sue Errington and Representatives Woody Burton and Sheila Klinker responded to Hogarth and Koide.

Click here to view the Seminar in its entirety. (Use Internet Explorer to view.)  

The Indiana Family Impact Seminars are sponsored by the Consortium of Family Organizations (COFO) who bring together experts to discuss the topics identified each year by the legislative advisory board. The Seminars are held to influence policy decisions made during each year’s legislative session.

Visit the Indiana Family Impact Seminar Web site by clicking here.  

Member of the Consortium of Family Organizations:
Indiana Council on Family Relations; Indiana Association of Family and Consumer Sciences; Family Service Council of Indiana; Indiana Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; Center for Families, Purdue University; The Institute for Family and Social Responsibility, Indiana University; Purdue University Extension, Consumer and Family Sciences; Indiana Division of Family and Consumer Sciences, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Ball State University; Indiana Extension Homemakers Association®; Indiana Youth Institute Howard, Indianapolis;

Members of the 2008 legislative advisory board:
Senators Jean Breaux, Indianapolis; John Broden, South Bend; Gary Dillon, Pierceton; Dennis Kruse, Auburn; Earline Rogers, Gary; Joseph Zakas, Granger; and Representatives John Day, Indianapolis; Bill Friend, Macy; Sheila Klinker, Lafayette; Kathy Kreag Richardson, Noblesville; Jeff Thompson, Lizton; and Peggy Welch, Bloomington.