Moderated by: Deborah Daro, PhD 

Note: This is a members-only APSAC event. If you'd like to join APSAC and participate, please click here to become a member. 

APSAC Round Tables are opportunities for an informal, 60-minute discussion on a specific topic relevant to child maltreatment facilitated by an expert in the field. These special small group discussions are available only to members and participation is limited to 25, first come first serve. A second Roundtable on a particular topic may be scheduled if interest significantly exceeds capacity. ​

Round Table Description: 

​Federal legislative changes, state initiated reform efforts, and numerous philanthropic initiatives offer important learning opportunities to dismantle the long standing imbalance within the current child welfare system between the important values of child safety, healthy child development and parental autonomy. A key hallmark of these efforts is rethinking how and when parents are offered assistance.   Public child welfare needs to be viewed as an alternative intervention within a broad system of family support. This roundtable will discuss the conceptual and organizational changes needed to reduce the need for mandated interventions and child placement by optimizing more consistent and integrated public child welfare-community prevention partnerships.

Presenter Bio: 

Bio: Dr. Deborah Daro, Senior Research Fellow from University of Chicago, is considered one of the nation’s leading experts in the area of child abuse prevention policy and early home visiting research. Most recently, Daro’s research and writing have focused on developing reform strategies that embed individualized, targeted prevention efforts within more universal efforts to alter normative standards and community context. Read more here!

 

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