Finding Common Ground (FCG) is a collaborative effort between researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Boston Medical Center. The project is dedicated to developing a public health agenda that integrates the healthcare needs and rights of women and children, and to reframing public discourse so that advocacy for one is seen to benefit both. Most recently, Finding Common Ground in the Era of Welfare Reform has been examining these issues in the context of the dramatic policy shifts that comprise "welfare reform." Despite various evaluations of welfare reform currently underway by others, this project is the only one to focus on the consequences for women's reproductive and child health. The importance of the PRWORA to the social well-being of millions of American families makes such evaluation necessary despite its complexity.