The White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth
Final Report
October 2003
Table of Contents
Chairman:
Margaret Spellings, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
Vice Chairman:
John Bridgeland, Assistant to the President and Director, USA Freedom Corps
Staff:
Karen A. Morison, Staff Director
Sonia Chessen, Senior Policy Advisor
Stan Chappell, Senior Advisor
Mary Beth Luna, Counsel
Robert Patterson
Members:
Eric Andell, Department of Education*
Andrea Barthwell, Office of National Drug Control Policy
Roy Bernardi, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mason Bishop, Department of Labor*
Jim Capretta, Office of Management and Budget
Deborah Daniels, Department of Justice
Stephen Goldsmith, Corporation for National and Community Service
Roy Grizzard, Department of Labor
David Kuo, White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Larry Matlack, Office of Management and Budget
Juliet McCarthy, Department of Agriculture
Susan Sclafani, Department of Education
David Reingold, Corporation for National and Community Service*
Don Winstead, Department of Health and Human Services*
* served as committee chair
In
addition to the Task Force Members listed above, the following federal officials also served on one or more of the Task Force committees:
Education: Grover Whitehurst, Richard La Pointe, Bill Modzeleski
Health and Human Services: Duane Alexander, Harry Wilson, Howard Rolston,
Cristina Beato, Alma Golden, Sybil Goldman, Clarence Carter, Joan Ohl,
Andy Bush
Justice: Cheri Nolan, Terrence Donahue, Adolfo Trevino, William Woodruff
Office of Management and Budget: Melissa Benton, Mary Cassell, Tony
Cheesebrough, Norris Cochran, Allison Perkins-Cohen, Craig Wacker
Housing and Urban Development: Richard Kennedy, Jackie Williams-Mitchell
Labor: Kim Cook, Dana Barbieri
Corporation for National and Community Service: David Caprara
Acknowledgements
Significant
contributions to this report were also made by:
Harry Hatry, Elaine Morley, and Jake Cowan of the Urban Institute
Doug Besharov, American Enterprise Institute and the University of Maryland
Gary Walker, Public/Private Ventures
Robert Blum, University of Minnesota Center for Adolescent Health
and Development
Maciej Golubiewski, The Heritage Foundation
Kathleen McNaught, American Bar Association
The Task Force would like to express special appreciation to the following persons: Steve Poizner, Les Lenkowsky, Tevi Troy, Heather Graham, Allison Boyd, Michelle George, Shanika Ratliff, Britt Grant, Eleanor Gillmor, Cornell Teague, Kathryn Stack, Kristin Goss, Sue Priftis, John Danielson, Ellen Sell, Richard Parker, Christopher Marston, Lacey Harden, Tracy Fried, Jeff Gale, Bernie Halloran, Francisco Garcia, Susan Orr, Steven Mallory, Ben Goldhaber, Steve Wandner, Karen Morgan, Mark Oliver, Diane Osterhus, Charles Havekost, Cathy Deeds, Charles Bish, Rodd Clay, Norman Baillie, Darlind Davis, Peter Germanis, Christina Imholt, Thad Ferber, Eric Weingart, Whitney Miller, and Kristen Wandell.