COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE

co-sponsored by the University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium
Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro Hotel
Chicago, IL

APRIL 27-28, 2012

Crossing Boundaries: Public and Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being

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Friday, April 27

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Session One: Differential response to child abuse and neglect: Where is Illinois and what can we learn from other states? (The 2012 Illinois Family Impact Seminar)

• "Differential Response in Illinois- What Is It?"
  • Womazetta Jones, Project Director, Differential Response, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
  • Kory May, Differential Response Supervisor for the Southern Region, Illinois Department of Children and Family Service
• "Differential Response: Sounds Great, But Does it Work?"
  • Tamara Fuller, Director, Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• "State Legislative Experience with Differential Response"
  • Kelly Crane, Child Welfare Policy Specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures
• "Seven Years of Differential Response: Lessons Learned about Implementing Programs that Serve Vulnerable Youth"
  • Moderator: Joel Rosch, Senior Research Scholar, Policy Liaison, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University

Break (10:00 AM - 10:30 AM)

10:30 AM - 12:00 noon

Session Two: Structural and Individual Risks for Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare System Involvement

• "How Neighborhoods Influence Child Maltreatment: Multiple Pathways and Policy Implications"
  • Jim Spilsbury, Director, Academic Development Core
  • Jill Korbin, Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and Co-Director of the Childhood Studies Program, Case Western Reserve University
  • Claudia J. Coulton, Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Social Research, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
    
• "Geographic and Temporal Variation in the Investigations of Abuse and Neglect Reports in Chicago"
  • Robert Goerge, Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
• "Racial Bias or Differential Risk? Deconstructing Racial Disparities in the Child Welfare System"
  • Alan Dettlaff, Assistant Professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Moderator: Amy Claessens, Assistant Professor, Harris School, University of Chicago
  
  

Lunch (12:00 noon - 1:15 PM)

• "Community Intervention Approaches for Youth Chronically Exposed to Violence"
  
  • Brian Gran, Associate Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
• "Translational Research and Child Maltreatment Prevention"
  • Sacha Coupet, Associate Director of Law, Director of Research, Vivitas Child Law Center, Loyola University, Chicago

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Session Three: Strategies for Improving Child Welfare Programs and Child Well-Being

• "Community Intervention Approaches for Youth Chronically Exposed to Violence"
  
  • GiShawn Mance, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, American University
• "Translational Research and Child Maltreatment Prevention"
  • John Eckenrode, Professor and Director Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University
• "Steps to a Decision Making Ecology: Implications for Child Welfare Prevention and Intervention"
  • John Fluke, Director, Child Protection Research Center at the American Humane Association; Vice President, Children's Innovation Institute; Scholar in Residence, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
    
• Moderator: Julie Spielberger, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Break (2:45 PM - 3:00 PM)

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Session Four: Public and Private Spheres: Implications for Public Support and Caseworker Practice in Child Welfare

• "Cultural and Cognitive Obstacles to Public Intervention"
  • Joe Grady, Cultural Logic
• "Community Responses to High-Profile Child Abuse Cases"
  • Steve Wilson, Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University
    
  • Angela Smith-Grossman, Tippecanoe County Child Protective Services Director, Indiana
• "A Second Set of Eyes: Supporting Difficult Decisions in Intact Family Cases"
  • Cheryl Smithgall, Research Fellow, Chapin Hall
• Moderator: Constance M. Dallas, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Reception at Crowne Plaza, with Media Awards and Keynote address (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)

• CCF 10th Annual Media Awards
• "The Politics of Racial Disparities in Child Welfare"
  • Keynote speaker, Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University Law School Professor, Department of African-American Studies and Sociology, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, on "The Politics of Racial Disparities in Child Welfare"

Saturday, April 28

Session One: Plenary Keynote (9:00 AM - 9:45 AM)

• "The Uses of Research in Policy and Practice"
  • Vivian Tseng, Vice President for Programs, William T Grant Foundation

Introduction by Barbara Fiese, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies;Pampered Chef, Ltd. Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency; Director, Family Resiliency Center, University of Illinois at Urbana

Break (9:45 AM - 10:00 AM)

Session Two: Breakout Workshops on Engaging with the Media (10:00 AM - 12:00 noon)

• Stephanie Coontz, Co-Chair and Director of Research and Public Education of the Council on Contemporary Families, History and Women's Studies, The Evergreen State College
• Pepper Schwartz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington
• Josh Coleman, Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, Psychologist, San Francisco Bay Area
• Virginia Rutter, Associate Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University

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