Reinventing Children’s Services

The nation’s child welfare system faces overwhelming financial and programmatic challenges. There is an urgent need for a national dialogue about how to reinvent and reshape effective services to best provide for vulnerable children and their families. What’s working? What needs to change, and what can realistically be accomplished?

Join the National Association of Social Workers, the New America Foundation, First Star and policyAmerica for a day-long policy forum with some of the foremost leaders in the field of child welfare to discuss the “next generation” of policies and programs.

Participants

• David Stoesz
  Director, policyAmerica
• MaryLee Allen
  Director, Child Welfare and Mental Health Division, Children’s Defense Fund
• Susan Christie
  Deputy Executive Director, American Public Human Services Association
• Judith Shagrin
  Asst. Director, Children’s Services Div., Baltimore County
• Marcia Robinson Lowry
  Executive Director, Children’s Rights, Inc.
• Jane M. Spinak
  Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
• Deborah Sams
  CEO, First Star
• Mary Bissell
  Fellow, New America Foundation
• Eleanor Holmes Norton
  (DC-D)
• Olivia Golden
  Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
• Jess McDonald
• Eileen McCaffrey
  Executive Director, Orphan Foundation of America
• Leonard Burton
  Associate Director, The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative