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2ND ANNUAL MS WOMEN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY POLICY SUMMIT DECEMBER 2, 2016 | HILTON GARDEN INN | JACKSON, MS #MSWOMENSECURE2016
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2ND ANNUAL
MS WOMEN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY POLICY SUMMIT
DECEMBER 2, 2016 | HILTON GARDEN INN | JACKSON, MS
#MSWOMENSECURE2016
MS WOMEN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY POLICY AGENDA 2017Affordable Child Care • Eliminate the waiting list for DHS childcare assistance and serve all eligible children • Support small childcare businesses by increasing reimbursement rates and providing technical assistance grants to child care providers
Higher-Paying Jobs for Women that Support Care-Giving Responsibilities • Provide funding and technical assistance for women to pursue nontraditional work • Require SWIB, state contractors, and MDA economic development projects to achieve gender pay equity • Require employers to provide paid sick and family
leave to all Mississippi workers • Raise minimum wage
Health Care • Provide all women access to no-cost contraceptives through their health insurance • Expand Medicaid
Education • Expand child care assistance for women students • Support evidence-based sex education in public schools • Expand financial aid for single moms seeking to achieve higher levels of education
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault • Strengthen legal protections for women and just adjudication of domestic violence and sexual assault • Improve enforcement of existing laws protecting women who experience domestic violence
The MS Women’s Economic Security Initiative (MWESI) is a collaborative of community leaders, elected officials and state organizations working to create a policy agenda for Mississippi women and their families. Led by Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative, a statewide child care advocacy organization, the MWESI Leadership Team wants to help eliminate the barriers that keep women from moving out of poverty.
STAFF
Carol Burnett Executive Director
Cassandra Welchlin Director, MS Women’s Economic Security Initiative
Jearlean Osborne Director, Training and Technical Assistance
Margie Van Meter Project Director, Healthy Centers Healthy Kids
Matt Williams Director of Research
Pamela Berry-Johnson Director of Communications
Zakiya Summers Special Events Consultant
Agenda
8:30 a.m. Registration | LOBBY
10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Opening Plenary Session | BALLROOM
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Welcome Carol Burnett | MLICCI Executive Director
Personal Testimony Laquita Hatcher | My Story
Special Presentation The Intersection of
Race & Gender Dr. Safiya Omari, Assoc. Professor, Social Work &
Health Sciences, Jackson State University __________
National Panel
Facilitating Cassandra Welchlin | MWESI Director
Panelists Elizabeth Gedmark, Senior Attorney/ Southern
Office Director, A Better Balance | Charmaine Davis, Southeast Regional
Administrator,Women’s Bureau Dept. of Labor
Noon Lunch Served
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Women’s Economic Security Policy Panel
Panelists Carol Burnett | Julie Kuklinski, Program
Director, Women in Construction at Moore Community House | Felicia Brown Williams,
Public Policy Regional Director, Planned Parenthood Southeast | Wendy Mahoney, Executive Director, MS Coalition Against
Domestic Violence
Introduction of Keynote Speaker Carol Burnett
Keynote Address Professor Premilla Nadasen, Barnard College
Scholar, Author and Activist
Keynote Q&A Attendees are invited to ask questions
Recognitions/Closing Remarks
ABOUT DR. PREMILLA NADASEN Dr. Premilla Nadasen is an associate history professor at Barnard College and Columbia University and is a noted expert on welfare, paid domestic work and low-wage women’s organizing. Nadasen has written several books, including the award-winning Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. A longtime scholar-activist, Nadasen works closely with domestic workers’ rights organizations, often writing policy briefs and also serving as an expert academic witness. She also writes about household labor, social movements, and women’s history for Ms. Foundation for Women, the Progressive Media Project, and other media outlets.
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 5, 2017 - Press Event at the Mississippi State Capitol Building(2nd Floor Rotunda) at 10 a.m.
CONTACT US MWESI IS A PROJECT OF
MISSISSIPPI LOW-INCOME CHILD CARE INITIATIVE
P.O. BOX 204 | BILOXI, MS 39533
228.669.4827 | [email protected]
WEBSITE: MSWOMENSECURE.ORG
CONNECT WITH US
MAKING MISSISSIPPI WOMEN SECURE @MLICCI1 @MSWOMENSECURE
*USE THE HASHTAG #MSWOMENSECURE2016 DURING TODAY’S SUMMIT
SPECIAL THANKSMLICCI and MWESI would like to offer a special thanks to the MWESI
Leadership Team, W.K.Kellogg Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, Ms. Foundation for Women, Groundswell Fund,
Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
