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TITLE White House Conference on Families; Listening to America's Families. INSTITUTION White House Conference on Families, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE Jun 80 NOTE 26p.

EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Citizen Participation; *Conferences; *Family Life; *Leadership; *National Programs; *Objectives; Policy Formation; Social Action IDENTIFIERS *White House Conference on Families

ABSTRACT This illustrated booklet for delegates provides a 'ety brief overview of the White House Conference on Families (WHCF. Contents include a welcoming statement by the conference chairperson, a review of preconference activities leading up to the conference, and lists of conference goals and themes. Officers of the conference as well as WHCF staff and state coordinators are ideutified. A calendar of major events, aspects of participation by private and public organizations, and WHCF National Research Forum activities are included. (Author/RH)

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3 THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

May 27, 1980

I wish to congratulate you on your selection as delegates to the White House Conference on Families. Your participation will enrich and strengthen this unique process of listening to American families. This conference is a long overdue examination of how our major institutions help, hurt or ignore families.

You carry with you the hopes and concerns of thousands of Americans who believe families have been overlooked for too long. Working together, I am confident we can build upon the strengths of our families, recognize their diverse needs and take real action to develop more responsive and sensitive policies toward them.

I look forward with great anticipation to the results of this Conference, and I thank you for your special help in this critical and challenging task.

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A message from Jim Guy Tucker Chairperson, White House Conference on Families

No previous White House Conference has been convened to deal with problems that are as compelling and as profound as those facing this White House Conference on Families.

Families have always been this nation's The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris, fundamental institution and source of Secretary of the Department of Health strength. They are certainly our most and Human Services, lead agency for the precious asset, because within "ordinary" White House Conference on Families. American families an extraordinary thing takes place: our nation's future is shaped and formed. Our families have done that job exceedingly well, often under trying circumstances. But at no time in our history have families been under more pressure than they are today. Pounded by successive waves of deep and often unpredictable change, they have had to meet their day-to-day needs while struggling with government, with other institutions, and frequently with each other as well. Too often, government, whether in the Nation's Capital or in a small town's city hall, has compounded the problem by creating public policies and programsin taxation, education, social welfare, and so onthat work to a family's disadvantage.

Some have said that this Conference will be an invitation for further Government control of family life. I believe just the opposite. Government steps in when families cannot help themselves; the overriding goal of the White House Conference on Families is to ensure that every family is strong enough to stand alone. To me, stronger families mean less government, not more.

But we cannot turn our backs on families in need. It remains the responsibility of government to help when all other means have failed.

In calling the White House Conference on Families, President Carter directed that every effort be made to reach out to all Americans so that we could listen to them--and learn from them. This, I believe, we have done successfully. But I want to remind you that our gathering together here does not mark the end of an effort but the beginning of an even larger 10,.... flog and more challenging undertakingthe responsibility of translating this Conference's recommendations into reality.

Along with my fellow members of the from the national hearings where 4,000 people National Advisory Committee and the participated, with more than 2,000 actually testifying. WHCF staff, I look forward to sharing that responsibility with you.

6 America's Families Speak out

Concerned by what he perceived as the lack of national policy to strengthen families, President Carter convened this White House Conference on Families to "examine the strengths of American families, the difficulties they face, and the ways in which familiy life is affected by public policies." He directed that the Conference "reach out, not only to scholars and to experts, but to many thousands of Americans around the country who know from their own experience what makes a family strong."

Because of this, the White House Conference on Families is different from any White House Conference of the past. It is taking place not in Washington, D.C., but in Baltimore, Minneapolis, and . It was preceded by seven national hearings, a National Research Forum on Family Issues, and by more than 300 state events in which more than 100,000 people participated. And it will be followed by a period of intensive advocacy that has been called for by both the President and by the Congress.

To chair the Conference, President Carter appointed Jim Guy Tucker, an attorney and former Congressman from Arkansas. And to guide its activities, the President named twenty men and twenty women of diverse racial, ethnic, professional, and religious backgrounds to the National Advisory Committee. In addition, John Carr, former director of education for the Campaign for Human Development, was named executive director of the Conference and its staff. During the summer of 1979, the National health, and foster care policies that ignore Advisory Committee established goals or undermine families. Others accused and themes for the Conference (see government of ignoring racial or ethnic page8) and devised a process of differences and the structural diversity of participation that distinguishes this White families, and noted the lack of House Conference from all others. accessibility to, and accountability for, Instead of focusing activities on a single government services. event, as previous Conferences had done, the Committee designed a program of The second most frequently stated national, state, and local activities concern was economic. Inflation and intended to give all Americans an povertyand just trying to make it on an opportunity to speak out on what they average incomeare creating terrible think is right and wrong with the public pressures on American families, stresses and private policies that affect their lives. that too frequently result in divorce, alcoholism, or violence. To start the listening process, the Conference held national hearings across The third major concern was support for the country between September 1979 and specific family structures that exist January 1980; there were seven in all: todayand the need for major Kansas City and Lindsborg, Kansas; insitutions, including government, to Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee; recognize this diversity in designing Denver, Colorado; Hartford and policies and programs. Stamford, Connecticut; Washington, D.C.; , Michigan; and Seattle, Washington. While the hearings' planners Other concerns most frequently voiced at anticipated modest attendance, more than the national hearings included: the 4,000 persons singleworking parents, scarcity of affordable child care, college students, senior citizens living in particularly for working parents; the poverty, teenage mothers, family care quality of health care; conflicts between professionals, and elected officials work and family responiibilities; the need turned out, often at personal sacrifice. for family life education; the relationships between parents and their children; and The thrust of their testimony was the roles of community institutions in enormously positive. Americans from supporting families. every walk of life, of all races, of every political and philosophical persuasion, The Conference listening process next testified their deep and abiding faith in focused on state activities, which began in the family as the primary source of the fall of 1979 and concluded in April strength in an increasingly complex 1920. Virtually every state, the District of society. But they voiced many deep Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American concerns as well. territories convened hearings, forums, and conferences to identify leading family That most frequently cited was the concerns and recommend changes in sensitivityor lack of itof Federal, public and private policies. The resulting state, and local government towards state reports were instrumental in families. Many criticized tax, welfare, preparing the Conference agenda. '

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President Carter launches the White House Conference on Families with members of the nein ly formed National Advisory Committee in July 1979,

The states were given another, crucially More than 4 percent are handicapped. Families was undertaken. The results of . important responsibility: selection of this first, national comprehensive poll on more than 80 percent of the 2,000 The States' outstanding performance in American families will be shared with the delegates to the Conferences through a reaching out to people and in selecting delegates at all three Conference sites. unique combination of peer selection and delegates is quite remarkable considering gubernatorial appointment. The vast that no Federal funds were available to National organizations and the business majority of the delegates are not assist these efforts. community have also been significantly professionals serving families, but family involved in the White House Conference members themselves, and, as the Two other pre-Conference events are on Families, following figures show, closely reflect the noteworthy. On April 10-11, 1980, the nation's population: Conference held a National Research More than 250 national organizations, Forum on Family Issues in Washington, ranging from the American Red Cross D.C. Leading scholars and experts from and the Future Homemakers of America, 25 percent represent racial minorities; the private and public sectors highlighted to the National Council on Churches and what is known about families and, more the National Council on Aging, urged Nearly 13 percent are single parents; important, identified areas where further their members to participate in research is needed. Conference hearings and state activities. 8 percent are over 60 years old; Many also submitted formal statements of To complete the development of a broad their major family concerns for 10 percent are from low-income base of facts and viewpoints to aid the consideration by delegates to the National families; and delegates, a Gallup Poll on American Conferences.

9 Conference Deputy Chair Donald Aging and Families Seibert, who is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the J.C. Penney Co., Families and Human Needs Inc., formed a Business Task Force in 1979 to encourage business support for I Education the Conference. With representatives of more than two dozen major corporations I Health ( page 19 ), the Task Force contributed substantive issues input to the Conference and also raised funds for special I Housing Conference projects. Child Care During the Conferences, delegates from 57 States and territories will review and I The Handicapped discuss major issues and vote on Conference recommendations. The issues Families and Major Institutions have been grouped into four major areas: Government

Families and Economic WellBeing Television

I Economic Pressures I Community Institutions

Families and Work 1 Law and the Judicial System.

1 Tax Policies At the conclusion of the three national Income Security for Families Conferences, a 117member National Task Force will meet to consolidate these 1 *Status of Homemakers recommendations into a single final report, which is to be completed by the Family Challenges and Responsibilities end of August, 1980.

Following this there will be a sixmonth Preparation for Marriage and Family effort to turn the Conference's Life recommendations into action. Activities will include a report to the President, Specific Supports for Families meetings with key Federal agency officials and Congressional leaders, and wide Parents and Children distribution of the Conference recommendations. The conference Family Violence participants will also receive reports of all the results of the White House Substance Abuse Conference.

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7 Conference Goals

The National Advisory Committee on the White House Conference on Families has adopted the following goals for the conference:

1. To initiate broad nationwide 5. To stimulate and encourage a wide discussions of families in the United variety of activities in neighborhoods, States. grass-roots organizations, communities, states, national organizations, media, 2. To develop a process of listening to and and other public and private groups involving families themselves, focused on supporting and especially those families which have too strengthening families and individuals often been left out of the formulation of within families. policies that affect their lives. 6. To examine the impact of economic 3. To shire what is known about forces (poverty, unemployment, familiestheir importance, diversity, inflation, etc.) on families, with special strengths, problems, responses to a emphasis and involvement of poor changing world, etc.and to generate families. and share new knowledge about families. 7. To encourage diverse groups of families to work together through local, state, 4. To identify public policies, institutional and national networks and other actions and other factors which may institutions for policies which harm or neglect family life, to strengthen and support familiy life. determine differing impact on particular groups, and to recommend 8. To generate interest in and action on new policies designed to strengthen and Conference recommendations among support families. individuals, families, and governmental and non-governmental bodies at every level. (These activities will include monitoring and eNaluation efforts.)

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12 Diverse Group of 40 Provides Conference Leadership

Conference Themes The National Advisory Committee on the White HouseConference on Families has adopted the following themes as starting points orprinciples for discussion of issues: Ito Family Strengths and Supports I The Impact of Public and Private Institutional Policies on Families Families are the ,oldest, most The policies of government and major fundamental human institution, our Jim Guy Tucker, chairperson of the most precious national resource. private institutions have profound White House Conference on Families, is a Families serve as a source of strength effects on families. Increased sensitivity lawyer. husband, and father of three to the needs of families is needed, as and support for their members and for children. our society. well as ongoing research and action to address the negative impacts of public A graduate of Harvard College and the and private institutional policies. I Diversity of Families University of Arkansas School of Law, Tucker, 36, is a partner in two law firms, American families are pluralistic in I The Impact of Discrimination Tucker & Stafford, Little Rock, Ark., and nature. Our discussion of issues will Lobel, Novins and Lamont, Washington, reflect an understanding of and respect Many families are exposed to various D.C. One of the U.S. Jaycee's Ten for cultural, ethnic, and regional and diverse forms of discrimination. Outstanding Young Men in America in differences as well as differences in These can affect indiviudal family 1978, Tucker also represented Arkansas in structure and lifestyle. members as well as the family unit as a the U.S. Congress from 1977 to 1979, whole. where he was a member of the Ways and 0 7Changing Realities of Family Life Means Committee and its Public I Families with Special Needs Assistance and Unemployment and Social Ameeacan society is dynamic, constantly Security Subcommittees. From 1974 to changing. The roles of families and Certain families have special needs, and 1977 he served as Attorney General of the individual family members are growing, these needs often produce unique State of Arkansas. adapting, and evolving in new and strengths. The needs of families with different ways to meet the challenges of handicapped members, singleparent Tucker currently resides in Little Roa our age. families, elderly families, and many with his weife Betty and their three other families with special needs will be children, Anna Rebecca Tucker, Kelly addressed during the Conference. Alworth, and Lance Alworth, Jr.

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Mario M. Cuomo, New York, New York, Lieutenant Governor of New York. An attorney, Mr. Cuomo was New York Secretary of State and Professor of Law at SL John's University.

Guadalupe Gibson, San Antonio, Texas, Associate Professor of the Worden School of Social Service, Our Lady of the Lake University; Director of the "La Chicana in Mental Health" project of the National Insitute of Mental Health.

Coretta Scott King, Atlanta, Georgia, President of the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change. Mrs. King is CoChair of the Full Employment Action Council and a member of the Black John L. Carr, executive director of the Leadership Forum. White House Conference on Families, was the education director of the Campaign for Human Development, an antipoverty funding group, before his appointment as Executive Director of the Maryann Mahaffey, Detroit, Michigan, White House Conference on Families. President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council and Professor in the School of From 1977 to 1979, Carr was executive Social Work in Wayne State University. director of the Full Employment Action She is a former President of the National Council, a coalition of 100 civil rights, Association of Social Workers. labor, and women's groups, and before that served two years as coordinator for urban issues for the '4 Catholic Conference. In addition to having taught at the college level in South Donald V. Seibert, New York, New York, Bend, Indiana, he is coauthor of a book, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Housing and Mediating Structures, which the J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Mr. is now in press. Seibert is Chairman of the Task Force on Inflation of the Business Roundtable, A native Minnesotan and graduate of St. chairs the Board of the National Retail Thomas College in St. Paul, Carr lives Merchants Association and serves as a with his wife, Linda, and son, Michael, in member of the Board of the United Way Oxon Hill, Maryland. of America.

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James A. Autry, Des Mines, , Leon F. Cook, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Editor -in -Chief or Betters Homes and President of American Indian Resource Gardens magazine, Vice President of the Services, recently served as an elected Publishing Group of Meredith representative on the Red Lake Bank of Publications, and Chairman of the Board Chippewa Indians Tribal Council. of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, Mary Cline Detrick, Elgin, Illinois, Charles D. Bannerman, Greenville, National staff member, Church of the Mississippi, Chairman of Delta Brethren. An ordained minister, she Foundatia, and Director of Mississippi works in areas of youth ministry, familiy Action for Community Education, a life, marriage enrichment and aging. She community organization working in is the past President of the national depressed areas of the Mississippi Delta. Council of Churches Family Life and He is Co-Chair of the National Rural Human Sexuality Commission. Center and Rural Coalition. Manual Diaz, Jr, New York, New York, Carolyn Shaw Bell, Dover, Massachusetts, Associate Prefessor. Fordham University chairs the Department of Economics at Graduate School of Social Service. Diaz Wellesley College. She is the author of is currently a board member of the numberous books including Coping in a Family Service Association and has served Troubled Society and The Economics of the with the Puerto Rican Family Institute Ghetto. and New York Urban Coalition.

Jeanne Cahill, Atlanta, Georgia, President Ruby Duncan, Las Vegas, Nevada, of Cahill Properties, Inc., former founder and Executive Director of Executive Director and Chair of the Operation Life, a social service and Georgia Commission on the Status of advocacy center for low-income families. Women. She works with the Center for Battered Women and Children in Atlanta. Karen Fenton, Missoula, Montana, is Director of the Human Resources Bettye Caldwell, Little Rock, Arkansas, Development Programs of the Professor and Director of the Center for Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Early Development and Education at the in rural Montana. Mrs. Fenton is a University of Arkansas; author and member of Montana's Committee for tie researcher in early childhood Humanities. development. Norman S. Fenton, Tucson, Arizona, Raniona Carlin, Smolan, Kansas, is past Presiding Judge of the Pima County

President of the Central States Synodical Conciliation Court.Judge Fenton Unit of the Lutheran Church of America, received the 1978 Distinguished Service to and has been active in the International Families award of the National Council Year of the Child, March of Dimes and on Family Relations and chaired the the 4-H. She and her husband, Governor Arizona Governor's Task Force on John Carlin, are dairy farmers. Marriage and the Family.

Gloria Chavez, Los Angeles, , Robert B. Hill, Washington, D.C. Director President of the United Neighborhood of Research for the National Urban Organization for the Federal of East Los League. He is the ;author of The Strengths Angeles, a low-income community of Black Families, and numerous other organization working on food, housing monographs and papers on the subject of and health issues. Black families.

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Robert. L. Hill, Portland, Oregon, Community Organization. She is a natimal research project sponsored by the iunian of the Metropolitan Youth licensed practical nurse and has a deep American Enterpirse Institute on omission. Mr. Hill, 18, is the youngest interest in ethnicity and neighborhood Mediating Structures and Public Policy. membe and a member of the concerns. Portland Public School Advisory Robert M. Rice, Parkridge, New Jersey, Committee. Olga M. Madar, Detroit, Michigan, Director of Policy Analysis and President Emeritus of the Coalition of Development for the Family Service Charlotte G. Holstein, Syracuse, New Labor Union Women and a retired UAW Association of America. The founding York, President of the Loretto Geriatric Vice President. She is a member of the Chairperson of the Coalition for the White Hosue Conference on Families, Dr. Center Past President of the New York Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Rice is author of American Family Policy: State Association for Human Services and America and the Wayne Country Content and Context. a member of the Board of Governor's of Commission on Aging. the American Jewish Committee. Ms. Holstein currently serves on the New Harriette P. McAdoo, Columbia, Ildaura MurilloRhode, Seattle, Washington, Professor and Associate York State Council on Youth. Maryland, Professor in the School of Social Work of Howard Univesity. Dean of the School of Nursing of the University of Washington. A marriage Harry N. Hollis, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, Professor McAdoo has served as a and family therapist, she is the Director of Family and Special Moral principal investigator of an HEW research ChairpersonElect of the National Concerns for the Christian Life grant on family factors related to Coalition of Hispanic Mental Health and Commission of the Southern Baptist occupational and educational mobility in Human Services Organization. Convention. He is a member of the Black middle income families. National Council of Family Relations and the Association of Couples for Marriage Georgia L. McMurray, New York, Hirsch L. Silverman, West Orange, New Jersey, Chairman of the Department of Enrichment Deputy General Driector for Program, Community Service Society of New York. Education Administration at Seton Hall University. Professor Silverman is the Jesse Jackson, , Illinois, national She is a former Commissioner of the Chairman of the national Alliance for President of Operation PUSH (People Agency for Child Development of the Family Life and the author of fourteen United to Save Humanity), and founder Human Resources Administration of the books dealing with the areas of of EXCEL, a national program designed City of New York. psychology, philosophy and education. to increase student achievement. Patsy Mink, Waipahu, Hawaii, National Eleanor C. Smeal, Pittsburgh, President, Americans for Democratic A. Sidney Johnson, III, Bethesda, Pennsylavnia, President of the National Action. Ms. Mink, an attorney, was a Maryland, founder and Director of the Organization for Women, and an active member of Congress from 1965 to 1977 Family Impact Seminar at George participant in a variety of advocacy and currently is an instructor of law at the Washington University. Johnson served organizations. as staff director to then SenatorWalter University of Hawaii. Mondale% Senate Subcomittee on Barbara B. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah, Children and Youth. Rashey B. Moten, Kansas City, Missouri, General President of the Relief Society of Executive Director of the Kansas City the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Michael M. Karl, MD., St. Louis, Catholic Charities. Mr. Moten is the Saints. She is active in the PTA and the Missouri, a Professor of Clinical Medicine former President of the national Holladay Child Care Center. at Washington University. Dr. Karl is a Conference of Catholic Charities. leader hi the Jewish Family Senices J. Francis Stafford Baltimore, Maryland, movement. Richard J. Neuhaus, New York, New Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdioceses of York, Associate Pastor, Trinity Church, Baltimore and Chairman of the Bishops Committee on Marriage and Family Life Judith Koberna, Cleveland, Ohio, Pastor Neuhaus is the author of To VicePresident of the BuckeyeWoodland Empower people and codirector of a of the United States Catholic Conference.

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77a The People Who Made it Work J. C.Turner, Washington, D.C. President of the International Union of Operating WHCF State Coordinators Engineers, AFLCIO, Mr. Turner serves Special recognition goes to the men and women at the state level who worked on the board of the National Urban long and hard to make the WHCF possible. With the outstanding support of their governors, states selected delegates and developed issues without any Fed- League, National Consumers' League, eral financial support. and the YMCA. Alaska Ms. Karen Corey Iowa Harold Yee,San Francisco, California. Ms. Shean Sherzan Director of Asia, Inc., a research institute for direct service agencies. Mr. Yee, an Arizona Director of the Council for Children Ms. Helen McDonald, Chairperson for economist, serves on several San Dr. Carol Kamin Program Administrator for Children, Iowa Council for Children Francisco school advisory committees. Youth and Families Kansas Arkansas Ms. Nancy Hodges Mr. Don Crary Kentucky California Ms. Virginia Nester Mr. Alex Velasquez Deputy Secretary of the Health & Welfare Louisiana Agency for Children, Youth and Families Dr. Betty Jane Hodgkins

Colorado Maine Dr. Dorothy Martin Mr. Michael Petit Ms. Donna Behrendt, Commissioner, Dept. of Human Services Deputy Coordinator Nancy McCallum, Staff Assistant

Connecticut Maryland Ms. Laura Lee Simon Ms. Sally Michel Chairperson of the Advisory Committee Delaware of the Office for Children and Youth Dr. Patricia Nelson Martha Clark, Staff Assistant

District of Columbia Massachusetts Mr. Mark Lawton Audrey Rowe Mr. Karl Banks State Representative Mr. John McFarland, Staff Assistant Florida Michigan Mr. Peter O'Donnell Ms. Susan Brook (orgia State Coordinator/WHCF Mr. C. Randy Humphry Minnesota Hawaii Mr. Dean Honetschlager Ann Hoadley Mississippi Idaho Ms. Edna Harbour Mr. Ed Van Dusen State Coordinator/WHCF

Illinois Missouri Ann Rohlen Ms. Marie Williams Mr. R.A. (Rod) St. Clair State Coordinator I: Montana Pennsylvania Washington Mr. John Frankino Ms. Helen O'Bannon Ms. Leila K. Todorovich Secretary Mr. Dick Westgard, Assistant Coordinator Nebraska Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ms. Christine Hanus Department of Public Welfare West Virginia Ms. Marian Bass, Staff Assistant Mr. Manuel Viola Nevada Co-Coordinator/WHCF Ms. Marjorie Hale Mr. Ed Edmundson Puerto Rico Co-Coordinator/WHCF Director, Dept. of Human Resources Dr. Jenaro Collazo Mrs. Edith F. Valentine New Hampshire Deputy Coordinator Wisconsin Mr. Mark Segar Mr. Charles Uphoff Rhode Island New Jersey Mr. John Mc. Manus Wyoming Reverend Norman 0 'Connor Co-Coordinator/WHCF Dr. Everett Lantz Ms. Ann Okubo, Staff Assistant Mr. John Affleck Co-Coordinator /WHCF American Samoa Ms. Kally Spangler, Staff Assistant High Chief Unuota S. Liufai New Mexico Ms. Alice King South Carolina Guam Ms. Emily Wiggins Dr. Arthur Jackson New York Director, Dept. of Youth Affairs Ms. Ilene Margolin South Dakota Executive Director of the Council on Ms. Arlinda McCumber Northern Marianas Children and Families Mr. Ted Oxborrow Ms. Evelyn Roth Operations Director Tennessee Mr. Charles Gentry Trust Territories of the Pacific Executive Director of Children Mr. Resio S. Moses North Carolina on Family Services Dr. Charles Petty Virgin Islands Director, Office of Citizen Participation The Honorable Gwendolyn C. Blake Mr. Austin Connors, Staff Assistant Texas George Willeford, Jr., M.D. Mr. Jonathan Hole North Dakota Mr. Milan Christianson Associate Professor, Family Life Specialist Utah Mrs. Ellen Furgis Dr. Richard Lindsay Ohio Mrs. Mary Turney Vermont Dr. Armin Grams Oklahoma State Coordinator/WHCF Ms. Cindy Worley Eric Nichols Administrative Assistant Deputy Coordinator for Human Resources

Oregon Virginia Ms. Alice Kay Simpson Dr. Jessica Cohen WHCF Staff A Year of Action

John L. Carr Anthony Anastasi Debra Anderson Stephanie Braime April 1979- Mary Cole Bonnie Cowan President Carter names Jim Guy Tucker October 1979- Diana Crank WHCF chairperson. Ron Daly National Hearings held in Tennessee and Harvey Dzodin June 1979- Colorado. Lead topics in Tennessee were Fran Eizenstat economy, morality, and poverty, while Mildred Fried li Forty member WHCF national Advisory Colorado discussions centered on farmers, Frank Fuentes Committee appointed by the President to veterans, and relocation. Rebecca Gates "find out what makes a family strong". Rhoda Glickman November 1979- Michael Grant July 1979- Myron Harley WHCF sponsors a "Celebration of Families" at the Smithsonian Museum in Priscilla Hilliard At its first meeting NAC calls for three Wash, D.C., prior to opening of D.C. Susan Hoffmann White House Conferences around nation in summer of 1980. Also develops hearings. Meanwhile, state activities Mark Hogarth Conference "listening" processseven began with South Dakota and Virginia Judy Hagopian national hearings around country, state holding November conferences. Hope Hunter activities, national organizations Cindy Jennings involvementand establishes goals and December 1979- Deborah Jones themes. Sara Levy National hearings were held in Wash, Betty Little September 1979- D.C., and Detroit, Mich, and state Melinda Livingston activities intensified with most states Emma McGhee NAC adopts guidelines for state activities holding or planning regional and state Isabel McLendon whereby states would hold meetings to meetings. Beverly Mitchell identify their ten most important topics Linda Murray and recommendations. and elect delegates January 1980- William Noack to attend the three WHCF's in summerof Joyce Payne 1980. Final National hearings held in Seattle, Washington. The NAC's third meeting Betts Portugill September 28 & 29 1979- heard reports on state activities, decided Jestyn Portugill on Conference format andapproved Joan Rattery First WHCF national hearings held in criteria for selecting at-large delegates Nina Sazer Kansas City and Lindsborg, Kansas. and observers. Meanwhile, state activities Sara Strom Attendance topped 450 people, who heard continued with New York, Minnesota, Harriett Stonehill testimony on issues ranging from and Ohio holding regional and state-wide Wade Wallace preparation for marriage to need for more family meetings to discuss issues and elect Barbara Warden family physicians. delegates. Patricia Washington Joyce Williams Pamela Zinn February 1980 WHCF's. Purpose of the forum was to June 1980 create a factual framework for delegates. Alaska, Arizona, Wash, D.C. Iowa, Also, the NAC adopted the format and WHCF in BaltimoreJune 5-7. Kentucky, and other states held local and agenda of the 3 WHCF's at its-fourth WHCF in MinneapolisJune 19-21. statewide family meetings to discuss issues meeting. Meanwhile, state activities were and elect delegates. completed with more than 100,000 people July 1980 participating. March 1980 WHCF in Los Angeles-10-12 May 1980 Early March markertheifealcanclusion August 1980 of state activites. Seventeen states and the Preparation and planning for the 3 District of Columbia had named more summer WHCF's was extensive. More Results of the 3 WHCF's pulled together than 300 delegates and registered over than 1100 state delegates were selected: 35 into one national product by a National 25,000 persons involved in state activities states submitted issue reports; 55 of 57 Task Force. This 117member Task at that time. jurisdictions were planning to send formal Force includes member of NAC, one delegations to the WHCF's. An analysis representative from each state, and 20 April 1980 of the national hearings showed that the presidential appointees. impact of government and the stress of More than 400 family scholars, economic pressure topped the list of September 1980 researchers, and citizens from diverse concerns raised by more than 2,000 people who testified. backgrounds met in Wash., D.C., at the Following completion of the final report WHCF's National Reseach Forum on and delivery to the President, the Family Issues to examine what is known Conference staff will begin a sixmonth about families in preparation for the 3 implementation period attempting to turn concepts into action to strengthen families.

WCHF "Celebration ofimilies" at the Smithsonian institution i the eve of Washington, D.0 national hearings in Novemberbroughtentertainersand many young guests together, including President Carter's daughter, Amy. WHCF Becomes Government-Wide Effort

To provide governmentwide support for especially prepared reference material, WHCF, President Carter formed an The White House Conference on Families InterAgency Task Force in the fall of Families extends its gratitude and appreciation to 1979. the following Agencies and Departments: The President urged all federal agencies and the Arts to assist the WHCF in a range of areas, The Department of Agriculture including: Throughout history, the arts have The Department of Commerce celebrated families. They have "Identifying and cataloging consistently portrayed and reflected the programs, policies and programs; The Department of Defense diversity of families, as well as their publishing studies, reports and The Department of Health and Human strengths and problems. These artistic other informational materials Services (formerly DHEW) statements have added dimension to our relating to families; providing The Community Service Administration understanding of the families and have detailees, logistical assistance, served as a bond within the family unit. meeting facilities, and other The Housing and Urban Development resources for Conference Agency It was because of these factors that a activities; earmarking The Office of Personnel Management cultural event was planned for each White discretionary funds for projects The Department of Interior House Conference. It is hoped that the which support the goals of the bringing together of Conference delegates White House Conference on The White House Drug Office to share an artistic experience will Families; and informing The National Institute of Mental Health highlight the role played by the arts employees and constituent (HHS) within the lives of families. This cultural groups about Conference The Bureau of the Census (Commerce) dimension, which will draw upon the local activities." talent of each Conference city, will The Selective Service Administration More than 50 Federal departments and demonstrate how the arts reflect the agencies attended the first Task Force The National Endowment for the Arts diversity and pluralism of our families meeting in November, 1979. Their help The National Endowment for the and how family relationships are has been crucial to Conference progress. Humanities strengthened through participation. Support has ranged from providing personnel on a detail basis to publishing The Department ofJustice

The Private sector has provided significant support for the White House Conference onFamilies. if there may be several omissions due to commitments made in June, the[MCI' extends its sincere thanks to the following companies and groups: Companies, AFG Industries Paul Masson Vineyards Allegheny Pepsi Cola Bottling Company MCA Groups The American Research Corporation Meredith Foundation Burger King Corporation National Milk Producer Federation Control Data Corporation National Endowment Support Equitable Life Assurance Society for the Arts of the United States National Endowment WHCF Food Marketing Institute for the Humanities J.C. Penney Compnay, Inc. General Mills, Inc. General Motors Corporation Safeway Stores, Inc. George Gund Foundation Sun Company William T. Grant Foundation United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Johnson & Johnson Association Levi Strauss Foundation van Ameringen Foundation. Inc.

19 Two-day Research Forum session saw presenters and panel members exchanging information on a wide range of family-related issues. Research Forum Key Event Dr. James Dobson, associate clinical in Conference Process professor of pediatrics, School of medicine, University of Southern California.

The WHCF National Research Forum on Family Issues marked a significant step in the Conference process.

A On April 10 and 11, more than 400 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to share current information and research on American families. The forum brought it T together some of the country's most prominent scholars and researchers to provide the group with a comprehensive examination of the leading issues affecting families today.

Forum participants presented background papers summarizing research in a range of areas reflecting major WHCF themes, including family strengths and supports, diversity of families, discrimination, and impact of public and private institutional policies on families. The Research Forum played a key role in establishing a factual base for the Conference, and WHCF is grateful to all those who participated. A. Sidney Johnson, III, member of the National Advisory Committee and director, Family Impact VFW Seminar, George Washing- ton University, moderated the panel cn the impact of public and private institutional policies on

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Dr. Juan Ramos, director, Division of Special mental Health Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, DHHS, presents his findings on Jane Howard, author of "Families". racial and ethnic diversity of families.

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Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, president, Phoenix House Foundation, discusses substance abuse.

Dr. Tamara Hareven, professor of hisotry, Clark University, and research associate, Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, shares her historical perspective on families. 25

The Research Forum was made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. re: