Presentations

Institute staff regularly present our work at the local, state, and national level to build awareness and spark community action toward policy change.  

2025

• Emerging 'Innovations' in Small Dollar Lending, Erin Macey | Prosperity Indiana Summit | May 8, 2025
• Medical Debt in Indiana, Lauren Murfree | Indiana Public Health Association | April 15, 2025
• Medical Debt in Indiana, Lauren Murfree | Indiana Justice Project, Health, Law, and Policy Conference | April 4, 2025
• Building Your Reputation: How Your Agency Can Become Subject-Matter Experts, Lauren Murfree | IHCDA Development Day | April 2, 2025

• Follow the Money: Understanding Indiana's Budget, Olivia Smith | Hoosier Action | January 22, 2025

2024

• Tax Policy Explained, Olivia Smith | Healthier Mom and Babies | December 19, 2024
• Tax Messaging Strategy, Olivia Smith | Assets & Opportunities Network | December 3, 2024
• 'I Would Ask for Mercy': Pregnant and Postpartum Hoosiers' Experiences with Medical Debt, Erin Macey, Lauren Murfree, & Deborah Fisher | CTSI Trailblazer Grant Presentations | November 13, 2024
• The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, Erin Macey | Indianapolis Bar Association | November 6, 2024
• Understanding the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, Erin Macey | Indiana Occupational Therapists | October 21, 2024
• The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, Erin Macey | Indianapolis Civil Legal Assistance Conference | October 18, 2024
• Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and Well-being of Pregnant & Postpartum Workers, Erin Macey & Zia Saylor | NASW Indiana & NASW Kentucky Annual Virtual Conference | October 1, 2024
• 'Live In Our Shoes For A Day': A Study of Hoosiers Leaving the Workforce Due To Disability, Ashley Phillips | October 1, 2024
• Electricity Affordability and Inequality in Indiana, Zia Saylor | Energy Justice Lab | Recorded Webinar | August 24, 2024
• Strategies for Region-Based Strategic Planning, Lauren Murfree | IHCDA Housing Conference | August 24, 2024
• The Hidden Costs of Buy Now Pay Later Products, Zia Saylor | Hoosiers for Responsible Lending | August 13, 2024
• Region 9 Strategic Planning, Lauren Murfree | Region 9 Planning Council | August 24, 2024
• Region 9 Strategic Plan, Lauren Murfree | I-HOPE Conference | July 23, 2024
• Digging Deeper Into Implementation, Evaluation, and Improvement, Ashley Phillips | Whole Family Approach Series | Recorded Webinar | July 23, 2024
• The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, Erin Macey | Black Maternal Health ECHO | July 17, 2024
• Taking the Whole Family Approach from Theory to Practice, Ashley Phillips | Whole Family Approach Series | July 16, 2024
• Overview and Evolution of the Whole Family Approach, Ashley Phillips | Whole Family Approach Series | July 9, 2024
• Additional Presentations: Not1More (Erin Macey, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act), Franklin County (Lauren Murfree, Region 9 Strategic Plan)

2023

• Economic Stability & MCH Outcomes, Erin Macey | Women4Change's State of Women | October 19, 2023
• Social Determinants of Health, Erin Macey | Indiana Primary Health Care Association Annual Conference | October 12, 2023
• Implications of the State & Local Tax Review Task Force on Human Services, Andy Nielsen | Indiana Coalition for Human Services | July 18, 2023
• Overlooked and Undercounted, Erin Macey | REAL Services Community Forum on Poverty | May 24, 2023
• Overlooked and Undercounted, Erin Macey | REAL Services Community Meeting | May 10, 2023
• Overlooked and Undercounted, Erin Macey | Domestic Violence Programs Monthly Meeting | May 4, 2023
• Overlooked and Undercounted, Amy Carter | CICF | March 15, 2023

2022 

• High-Cost Lending, Andy Nielsen | Consumer Federation of America High Cost Lending Summit | December 6, 2022
• Find My Legislator, Amy Carter | Immigrant Welcome Center | December 1, 2022
• Child Care for Parent Students, Jessica Fraser | National Skills Coalition Skills in the States Panel | November 3, 2022
• Benefits Legislation, Amy Carter | Indiana Bar Foundation | November 28, 2022
• Taxation of Hoosiers, Andy Nielsen | Indiana Assets & Opportunity Network |October 17, 2022
• Overlooked and Undercounted, Amy Carter | Northwest Indiana Community Action Agency | November 12, 2022
• Poverty, Amy Carter | CASA Marion County | September 15, 2022
• Predatory Lending, Andy Nielsen | Indiana Assets & Opportunity Network | September 14, 2022
• Health is Wealth, Andy Nielsen | Prosperity Indiana | September 12, 2022
• High-Cost Lending, Andy Nielsen | High-Cost Lending Coalition | August 11, 2022
• Benefits Cliffs, Amy Carter | United Way of Central Indiana | July 13, 2022
• High-Cost Lending, Andy Nielsen | Midwest Asset Building Coalition | June 30, 2022
• Advocacy 101 Amy Carter | Urban Leaders Fellowship Program | June 29, 2022
• High-Cost Lending, Andy Nielsen | Economic Justice Policy Advocates Conference | June 2, 2022
• Advocacy 101, Jessica Fraser | Class for CLF Grads, St. Vincent de Paul | May 19, 2022
• Where Hoosier Women Stand - COVID Update, Jessica Fraser | AAUW-Ft. Wayne Chapter Annual Meeting | May 14, 2022 
• Poverty in Indiana, Amy Carter | College Mentors for Kids | April 20, 2022   

2021

• INCAA State Conference Session, December 2-3, 2021
• Vulnerable Families and the Hoosier Economy, Jessica Fraser | Indiana Youth Institute 2022 Kids Count Conference | November 30, 2021 
• Upcoming Skills 2 Compete Educational Attainment Brief Preliminary Findings (PPT). Jessica Fraser | Indiana Talent Network | September 13, 2021  
  

2019

• The Uniform Consumer Credit Code: Reflections on Key Provisions (PPT). 
  Erin Macey | Interim Study Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance | August 2019
• A symptom of (and cure for) the larger problem: Payday lending legislation & the power of collective action
  Erin Macey | Indiana Alliance for Retired Americans | June 2019
• Self-sufficiency and the benefits cliff
  Jessica Fraser | Jasper Rotary Club | May 2019
• Legislative update: How did working families fare in 2019?
  Erin Macey | Race & Cultural Relations Leadership Network | May 2019
• 2019 legislative update and poverty trends
  Jessica Fraser | Community Action Program of Western Indiana | April 2019
• On living wages, poverty, and payday loans
  Amy Carter | United Methodist Women | March 2019
• Advocating for women's health
  Erin Macey | Superwoman Forum | February 2019
• What is payday lending?
  Erin Macey | AARP Indiana | February 2019

2018 

• The Big Picture: Labor Demand and Self-Sufficiency for Hoosiers
  Jessica Fraser & Andrew Bradley | Workforce Policy Workshop for Lawmakers | July 2018

2017

• Indiana's Working Families and 2017 Legislation
  Andrew Bradley | League of Women Voters, Indianapolis Chapter | January 2017

2016

• Paid Family & Medical Leave: Setting the Stage for Safe, Stable Nurturing Relationships and Environments
  Erin Macey | Monroe County Childhood Conditions Summit | August 2016
• Breastfeeding & the Law: What Exists and What WeStill Need to Ensure that Breastfeeding is an Option for All Families
  Erin Macey | Presentation at Indiana Breastfeeding Conference | August 2016

2015

• Status of Working Families Report
  Derek Thomas | Presentation on Status of Working Families in Indiana to Mid North Shepherd Center | 2015
• The Financial Impact of a Living Wage on Households and Communities
  Derek Thomas | Presentation to 'Living Wage as a Human Right' at Robert H. McKinney School of Law's Graduate Studies Lecture Series | 2015

2014

• Work and Poverty (in Marion County)
  Derek Thomas | Presentation to Plan2020 Work Indy Committee | 2014
• Cliff Effect Conversation at Tri-Cap's Third Annual Poverty Simulator
  Derek Thomas | Presentation on the Cliff Effect and Economic Self-Sufficiency in the Tri-Cap region | 2014
• Indiana University School of Social Work Living Wage Discussion
  Derek Thomas | Economic self-sufficiency and the minimum wage | 2014
• Commission on the Status of Women - Women's Leadership Event
  Jessica Fraser | Increasing the minimum wage and its impact on women | 2014

2013

• Community Conversation – Restoring Economic Mobility for Hoosier Families
• Community Conversation in Marshall County
• Community Conversation in Marion County
• Presentation at Indiana Statehouse: Restore Economic Mobility for Hoosier Families

2012

• Cliff Effect Symposium — Improving economic mobility in Indiana
• Dr. Curtis Skinner, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) presentation
• IIWF Presentation

2011

• Indiana Grantmakers Alliance Fall Forum— Indiana's Forgotten Middle Skills JobsJessica Fraser, IIWF Senior Policy Analyst
• Self-Sufficiency Calculator Webinar (presentation and supporting materials)
  Jessica Fraser, IIWF Senior Policy Analyst
• KnowHow2GO Presentations, Sponsored by Learn More Indiana
  Presentations by the Jennings County College for Success Coalition on the Indiana Self-Sufficiency Standard | 2011
• Adult Presentation
• Student Presentation

2010

• Indiana Resources and Tools – July 2010
• Lessons Learned from State Policy Campaigns: Indiana Earned Income Tax Credit
  2010 National Community Tax Coalition – Detroit, MI - August 2010
• Indiana Self-Sufficiency Standard Presentation – October 2010

2009

• Fall Forums – October 2009
  Sponsored by the Duke Energy Foundation
• Fall Forums Materials (Not Regionally Customized)
• Investing In Indiana’s Adult Workers: Increasing Financial Aid Opportunities
• Indiana Institute for Working Families Draft Policy Agenda 2010
• The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Indiana 2009 Report
• 70 Family Types in all 92 Counties from The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Indiana 2009
• Resources
• North Forum, Whiting, IN
• Status of Working Families – North
• 2009 Indiana Self-Sufficiency Standard - North
• Central Forum, Indianapolis, IN
• Status of Working Families – Central
• 2009 Indiana Self-Sufficiency Standard – Central
• South Forum, Mitchell, IN
• Status of Working Families – South
• 2009 Indiana Self-Sufficiency Standard – South

• Policy Symposium – June 2009
  Sponsored by Lumina Foundation for Education
• Presentation: Overview of Investing in Indiana’s Adult Workers: Increasing Financial Aid Opportunities Findings
• Presentation: Policy Recommendations from Investing in Indiana’s Adult Workers: Increasing Financial Aid Opportunities Findings
• Report: Indiana’s Adult Workers: Increasing Financial Aid Opportunities Report
• Executive Summary: Indiana’s Adult Workers: Increasing Financial Aid Opportunities Report

• Medical Debt in Indiana, Lauren Murfree | Indiana Justice Project, Health, Law, and Policy Conference | April 4, 2025