Promoting Children’s Well-Being

Workplace Flexibility 2010 of Georgetown University Law Center and the Workforce and Family Program of the New America Foundation are bringing together a panel of experts in the fields of parenting, child development, and workplace innovations who will discuss the implications of work-family tensions on children, with a particular focus on the role of fathers.

The briefing will also highlight how workplace flexibility is a necessary part of the response to these issues.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Susie Valenzuela with Workplace Flexibility 2010 at svalenzuela@rabengroup.com.

Participants

• Barbara Schneider, Ph.D
  John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and Sociology
  Michigan State University
• Shelley M. MacDermid, Ph.D
  Professor of Child Development and Family Studies
  Purdue University
• David M. Almeida, Ph.D
  Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
  Pennsylvania State University

Moderators

• David Gray, JD
  Director, Workforce and Family Program
  New America Foundation
• Jean Flatley McGuire, Ph.D
  Lorraine Snell Visiting Professor, Institute on Urban Health Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
  Research Director, Workplace Flexibility 2010