The National Campaign and Child Trends, along with honorary co-hosts Representatives Michael Castle (R-DE), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and Tim Ryan (D-OH), hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill on November 17, 2009. David Baime, Vice President for Government Affairs at The American Association of Community Colleges and Andrea Kane, Senior Director of Policy and Partnerships at The National Campaign, moderated the discussion, which included brief remarks from Representatives Castle and DeLauro, a short presentation of preliminary findings from qualitative research with community college students in Maryland, and officials from three colleges who discussed the innovative steps they are taking to address unplanned pregnancy among community college students.
 |
|
 |
||
(L-R) David Baime from AACC, Margaret Rose Henry from DTCC, and Lina Guzman from Child Trends |
audience members before the event |
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) |
||
 |
 |
 |
||
Rep. Michael Castle (R-DE) |
Linda Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Denise Bartell, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay |
Christie Vilsack, Executive Director of The Iowa Initiative To Reduce Unintended Pregnancies, addresses the panel |
||
 |
 |
 |
||
(L-R) Andrea Kane, David Baime, Lina Guzman, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro |
members of the panel (L-R): Linda Roberts, Jim Walters, Andrea Kane, David Baime, Margaret Rose Henry, and Lina Guzman |
Jim Walters of Montgomery College with a staff member from the office of Rep. Van Hollen (D-MD) |
||
 |
||||
Jacquita Wright-Henderson, Margaret Rose Henry, and Rochellda Adderley from Delaware Technical and Community College |
||||
