Race and Child Welfare:
Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination:
Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options
Working Conference at Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
January 28 – 29, 2011
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Video 1: Welcome and Historical and Social Context Panel
Welcome:
Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
Fred Wulczyn, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Speakers:
Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law, Northwestern Law School
Duncan Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Randall Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderator:
Charles Ogletree, Professor of Law and Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Video 2: Introductory Remarks and Facts: Entry Issues: Removal Rates, Official vs Actual Maltreatment Incidence
Introductory Remarks:
Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
Speakers:
John D. Fluke, Director, American Humane Association (View Fluke’s powerpoint)
Brett Drake, Professor, the Brown School, Washington University School of Social Work (View Drake’s powerpoint)
Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Associate Research Specialist, Center for Social Services Research, University of California at Berkeley (View Putnam-Hornstein’s powerpoint)
Richard Barth, Dean, School of Social Work, University of Maryland (View Barth’s powerpoint)
Moderator:
Hon. Cindy S. Lederman, Circuit Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Juvenile Division, Miami, FL
Video 3: Facts: Exit Issues: Rates of Foster Care Retention, Kinship Care, Access to Permanency
Speakers:
Brenda Jones Harden, Associate Professor, Institute for Child Study, University of Maryland College Park (View Harden’s powerpoint)
Fred Wulczyn, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (View Wulczyn’s powerpoint)
Moderator:
Hon. Cindy S. Lederman, Circuit Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Juvenile Division, Miami, FL
Video 4: Policy and Practice Options Related to Entry Issues
Speakers:
Barbara Needell, Center for Social Services Research, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley (View Needell’s powerpoint)
Deborah Daro, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (View Daro’s powerpoint)
Claire Houston, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School (View Houston’s powerpoint)
Moderator:
Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
Video 5: Policy and Practice Options Related to Exit Issues
Speakers:
Joe Ryan, Associate Professor and Faculty Fellow, Child and Family Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Illinois (View Ryan’s powerpoint)
Jill Duerr Berrick, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Child and Youth Policy, University of California, Berkeley (View Berrick’s powerpoint)
Anne Marie Lancour, Director of State Projects, ABA Center on Children & the Law (View Lancour’s powerpoint)
Moderator:
Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School
Video 6: Panel Discussion: Comments on Policy and Practice Options for Both Entry and Exit Issues
Panelists:
Lily Dorman Colby, U.C. Berkeley Law School Class of 2014, Yale University Class of 2010, foster care alumna, former foster parent
Eric D. Fenner, Executive Director, Franklin County Children Services, Columbus, Ohio
Hon. Patricia M. Martin, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
John Mattingly, Commissioner, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services
Cassie Statuto Bevan, Adjunct Faculty, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
David Sanders, EVP Systems Improvement, Casey Family Programs
Hon. Cindy S. Lederman, Circuit Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Juvenile Division, Miami, FL
Moderator:
Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School