Conference Program

8:30 a.m. Welcoming Ceremony

The Honorable Philip Bredesen, Mayor, Nashville, TN

The Honorable Ned McWherter, Governor, TN

Deb Smulyan, Progressive Foundation

Kathleen Sylvester, Progressive Foundation

8:40 a.m. Opening Remarks

Vice President Al Gore

9:10 a.m Roundtable One: "How Do We Listen to Families?"

Dr. Janet K. Belsky, author &faculty member, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Dr. Lorraine C. Blackman, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Social Work, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, author & member, Child Development Unit, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

Emil and Coralee Holloway, Nashville, TN

Dr. Gloria Johnson-Powell, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA

Sara L. Lewis, Executive Director, Free The Children, Inc., Memphis, TN

Richard Louv, author & columnist, San Diego, CA

Anne L. Peretz, President, The Family Center, Inc., Cambridge., MA

April Powell-Willingham, attorney & author, Pacific Palisades, CA

Derrick White and Shirley White-Horton, Memphis, TN

10:45 a.m. Roundtable Two: "How Do We Transcend Barriers?"

Special Guests:

The Honorable Carol Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy

The Honorable Donna Shalala, Secretary, United States Department Of Health and Human Services

Eddie Adair, Deputy Director, Memphis Police Department, Memphis, TN

Ana Armendarez, President & CEO, Glendale Youth Center, Glendale, AZ

Barbara Clinton, Director, Vanderbilt University Center for Health Services, Nashville, TN

Dr. James Comer, Director, School Development Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

DeWitt Ezell, Chairman, United Way "Success by Six" Initiative, Nashville, TN

Dr. Henry W. Foster, Jr., Dean & Vice President, Health Services, Meharry School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Toby Herr, Founder & Director, Project Match, Chicago, IL

Eileen Locke, Project Director, Head Start & Parent-Child Center, Chattanooga, TN

Myron Oglesby-Pitts, Principal, Caldwell Early Childhood Center, Nashville, TN

Sue Simcox, charter member, Mother-to-Mother Ministry, Decatur, IL

Joyce Strom, Executive Director, Massachusetts Societyfor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Boston, MA

12:30 p.m. Lunch

Main Concourse

2:00 p.m. Roundtable Three: "How Do We Provide Incentives for Success and How Do We Measure Success?"

Special Guests:

Tipper Gore, child/family advocate

The Honorable Carol Rasco, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy

Dr. Marty Beyer, author & child advocate, McLean, VA

Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen, Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Sidney L. Gardner, Director, Center for Collaboration for Children, California State University, Fullerton, CA

Dr. Irving Lazar, Professor Emeritus Cornell University, Senior Research Associate, Vanderbilt Institute/public Policy Studies, Nashville, TN

Sally Leiderman, Project Director, The Children's Initiative, Bala Cynwyd, PA

John McKnight, Director of Community Studies, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Sarah Shuptrine, President & Executive Director, Southern Institute on Children and Families, Columbia, SC

Dr. Richard Weissbourd, Research Fellow, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

3:10 p.m. Roundtable Four: "How Do We Empower Families?. . .

A Vision of the Future"

The Honorable Charles H. Bruner, Executive Director Child & Family Policy Center, Des Moines, IA

The Honorable Thomas J. Downey, President, Thomas J. Downey & Associates, Washington, DC

Lynn Fallin, Deputy Director, Department Of Human Services, Honolulu, HI

The Honorable Donald M. Fraser, Mayor of Minneapolis, MN

Tipper Gore, child/family advocate

Dr. Maxine Hayes Division Director, Parent-Child Health Services, Olympia, WA

Grantland Johnson, County Supervisor, Sacramento, CA

Karen Kurz-Riemer, Director, Action for Children., St. Paul, MN

Vincent Lane, Director, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago, IL

The Honorable Bill Purcell, House Majority Leader, Tennessee General Assembly, Nashville, TN

Evelyn C. Robertson, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, Nashville, TN

The Honorable Andy Shookhoff, juvenile Court Judge, Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County, Nashville, TN

4:40 p.m. Closing Remarks

Vice President Al Gore

5:00 p.m. Adjourn

PROGRESSIVE FOUNDATION

The Progressive Foundation is an independent center in Washington, D.C. for public policy research and innovation. It works to fashion a new agenda for progressive reform based on individual liberty, equal opportunity, civic responsibility and non-bureaucratic governance.

Its substantive work revolves around some of the most difficult challenges facing America in the 1990s: restoring public confidence in our political system and governmental institutions; stimulating job growth to ensure expanding opportunities for working Americans; striking a new balance between the rights and responsibilities of citizenship; and maintaining civic unity as Americans build the world's foremost multiethnic democracy.

The Foundation explores public controversies over cultural questions -- race, ethnicity, gender, religion, morality, and civic education -- that are often ignored in conventional political discourse.

The Progressive Foundation is a private, non-partisan institute organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and as such is a non-profit, tax-exempt institution according to the Internal Revenue Code.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Nancy Granese

Dr. Seymour Martin Lipset

Will Marshall

The Progressive Foundation wishes to thank the following FAMILY RE-UNION II. REINVENTING FAMILY POLICY supporters whose generous contributions helped make this event and our activities throughout the year possible:

Bill Budinger, Chairman & CEO, Rodel, Inc.

The Carlisle Foundation ,Framingham, Massachusetts

The Augusta Clark Trust

Thomas F. Daly and Trudy Daly ,Briarcliff, New York

Hamilton C. Forman, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Barbara R. Jordan ,Wayland, Massachusetts

Lucy Rosenberry McCarthy ,Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carol and David Pensky ,Potomac, Maryland

Madeline M. and Edward Redstone ,Concord, Massachusetts

Senator and Mrs. Tom F. Taft ,Greenville, South Carolina

The Progressive Foundation wishes to thank all of the members of the Tennessee Steering Committee and its supporters who donated time, energy,

expertise, and professional and financial resources to make FAMILY RE-UNION II: REINVENTING FAMILY POLICY a success.

TENNESSEE STEERING COMMITTEE

Chair

Elliott Moore, Hospital Alliance of Tennessee

Karen Edwards, Executive Director, Select Committee on Children & Youth, Tennessee General Assembly

Irving Lazar, Professor Emeritus Cornell University, Senior Research Associate, Vanderbilt Institute/Public Policy Studies, Nashville, TN

Sara Lewis, Executive Director, Free The Children, Memphis, TN

Karen Noel, LCSW, Family Therapist

Kathy Wood-Dobbins, Executive Director, Tennessee Primary Care Association

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Martin Amacher, Executive Director, Family & Children's Services, Nashville, TN

Nancy Amidei, Assistant Director for Policy & Practice Research University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle, WA

Joseph Baum, Crisis Director for American Biodyne, Inc., Tampa, FL

Marty Beyer, Author & Child Advocate, McLean, VA

Lorraine Blackman, Assistant Professor, Indiana School of Social Work, Indianapolis, IN

Charles Gentry, Executive Director, Child & Family Services, Knoxville, TN

Lance Laurence, Private Practice, Clinical Psychology, Knoxville, TN

Lisa McInturf, Director, Tennessee Voices for Children, Nashville, TN

Alma Clayton-Pederson, Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Gloria Johnson-Powell, MD, Professor, Child Psychiatrist Harvard Medical School ,Director, Camille Coshj Ambulatory Care Center, Boston, MA

Representative Bill Purcell, House Majority Leader, Chair, Select Committee on Children & Youth , House Majority Leader, Tennessee General Assembly, Nashville, TN

Evelyn Robertson, Commissioner of Mental Health, Nashville, TN

May Shayne, Vanderbilt University Institute of Public Policy, Nashville, TN

Andy Shookhoff, Juvenile Court Judge, Metro Nashville-Davidson County, TN

Joyce Strom, Executive Director, Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Boston, MA

Richard Weissbourd, Research Associate, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

ART AND MUSIC COMMITTEE

Bunny Burson, Director of Cultural Enhancement, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN

Sylvia Hutton, Singer-Songwriter

Amy Kurland, Owner, Bluebird Cafe

Joyce McLester, Rochelle Center

Celia Walker, Young Artist Program, Watkins Institute

Susan McGlohon, Young Artist Program, Watkins Institute New Dimensions, Artists with Disabilities

Office of the Mayor

Tim Oliphant, Instructor, Watkins Institute

James Threalkill, Children's Art Program, Edgehill Community Center ,Executive Director, 100 Black Men of Nashville, Inc.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Cultural Enrichment Program

Lain York, Greater Nashville Arts Foundation

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

VIP Arrangements

Dana Moore, Director of Business Development, Corrections Corporation of America

Registration

Betty Brock and Cathy Forester, Tennessee Society of Association Executives

Volunteers

Sherrie Sinks, Community Initiatives, United Way

W.O. Smith Community Music School

Kenneth Wendrich, Executive Director

Lynne Adelman, Choral Director

The Benson Music Group

CONFERENCE STAFF

Conference Director

Nancy Hoit

Progressive Foundation

David Aronberg

Debbie Boylan

Will Marshall

Andrea Mietus

Deb Smulyan

Kathleen Sylvester

Princine Lewis, McNeely, Pigott, & Fox

Mark McNeely, McNeely, Pigott & Fox

Jennifer Miller, McNeely, Pigott & Fox

Cynthia H. Morin, McNeely Pigott & Fox

The Progressive Foundation is pleased to welcome the following performers to FAMILY REUNION II: REINVENTiNG FAMILY POLICY

W.O. SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL

Performing during the opening ceremonies of FAMILY RE-UNION II will be a group of students from the W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School. Founded in 1984, the W.O. Smith School provides music instruction to children from low income families for 50 cents a lesson. All of the faculty are volunteers drawn from the Nashville music community. The school enrolls 250 students each year and maintains a faculty of 70 teachers, with only two paid staff.

The W.O. Smith School receives no government money and operates on gifts, donations and grants. The annual operating budget is $125,000 per year which includes the instructional program, a one-week resident music camp, the choral program, and a series of jazz concerts on Music Row.

STRAIGHT COMPANY

During the luncheon break, musical entertainment will be performed by the Straight Company. The seven member group was discovered in 1992 at the Gospel Music Workshop of America convention during an impromptu audition in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel for Benson Music President Jerry Park. For the past seven years the Straight Company, from Louisville, KY, has toured the country performing its unique brand of a cappella in churches and auditoriums from coast-to-coast.

The music of Straight Company blends 1950's "do-wop," Caribbean calypso, gospeltinged praise and worship and street "hip hop" in a slick a cappella package, resulting in one of the freshest, most entertaining presentations of the Good News to come along in some time. Straight Company will record its debut album this fall.

SYLVIA HUTTON

As part of the day's entertainment, Sylvia Hutton will perform at the conference. During the 1980s, Ms. Hutton enjoyed immense success as a singer-songwriter with hits such as Nobody, Snapshot, Drifter and others. In subsequent years, during a four-year self-imposed break from touring and performing, Ms. Hutton wrote songs with co-writers Verlon Thompson and Craig Bickhardt, hosted a television cooking show on The Nashville Network, and pursued a career in acting. She recently returned to performing.

Photographs taken by Tipper Gore are on loan from her private collection. They can be seen in the lobby in conjunction with the National Museum of Women in the Arts Exhibit in the Tennessee State Museum.