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Sponsor: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE)
Timing: Biannual
Description: OPRE sponsors the RECS, during which family self-sufficiency and poverty researchers, State and local administrators, practitioners and program operators and Federal officials and policymakers have the opportunity to network with peers and discuss cutting-edge research on social welfare programs and policies. 
The 2018 RECS conference was held May-June 2018. The SSRC Library includes links to relevant presentation videos. Examples include:
  • Building the Evidence on Community College-led Training Strategies: Findings from the TAACCCT Evaluation
  • Integrated Intake and Case Management: The Power of Integrated Data Systems
  • Job Characteristics and the Well-being of Low-Income Adults and Families
  • Coaching in Employment Programs: Reflections from Three Practitioners
  • Homeless Families’ Experiences with Public Benefit Programs, Employment, and Family Transitions
  • Parents and Children Together: Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Six Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs
  • Serving the Hardest to Employ: Evidence from Evaluations of Subsidized Employment Programs
  • The Responsiveness of the Safety Net to the Changing Geography of Poverty
The 2016 RECS conference was held June 2016. The SSRC Library includes links to relevant presentation videos. Examples include:
  • Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency: What We Learned and What's Next
  • Building Research Capacity in Human Services Agencies
  • Exploring Strategies for Serving Reentering Fathers
  • The Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts and Special Topics on the Special Service Needs of Homeless Families
  • Improving the Efficiency of Delivering Work Supports for Low-Income Families: Findings from the Work Support Strategies Evaluation
  • Poor, Unemployed, and Without Cash Assistance: Characteristics, Circumstances, and Survival Strategies of Disconnected Families
  • Rapid-Cycle Testing: Lessons from the Private Sector
  • Reducing Economic Hardship: Encouraging Asset Development among Low-Income Individuals and Families
  • Replication Studies of Evidence-Based Programs and Policies
  • Severe Deprivation: What We Know and Don’t Know about Deep Poverty in the United States
  • Stability-Instability of Low-Income Hispanics?: Findings from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children
  • The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Federal Interagency Coordination, State Implementation, and Research Opportunities
The 17th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference (WREC) was held in May 2014. The SSRC Library includes links to relevant presentations. Examples include:
  • Exploring Policy Options to Promote Economic Mobility
  • Examining New Initiatives to Promote Skill-Building among Low-Income Individuals
Sponsor: National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics (NAWRS)
Timing: Annual
Description: The NAWRS annual conference promotes the exchange of ideas on how research and statistical analysis can contribute to the development and administration of effective human services programs. 
The 2015 Annual Workshop took place in August 2015. The SSRC Library includes links to the relevant presentations. Examples include:
  • Work-Family Supports for Low-Income Families: Key Research Findings and Policy Trends
  • Growth and Diversity of Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers
The 2014 Annual Workshop took place in August 2014. The SSRC Library includes links to the relevant presentations. Examples include:
  • Common and Promising Industries among Employed Welfare Leavers
  • Behavioral Interventions for Labor Programs
The 2013 Annual Workshop took place in August 2013. The SSRC Library includes links to the relevant presentations. Examples include:
  • The State Earned Income Tax Credit and Savings Behavior
  • Building Smarter State and Local Social Policy with Improved Poverty Measurement