9th Annual Spring Child Welfare Conference

Details

Date: April 16, 2008
Time: 8:00 AM-12:30 PM
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Site Coordinator Materials (PDF)
Participant Materials (PDF)
Spring 2008 CW360°, Children of Incarcerated Parents (PDF)

Featured Presenter

Creasie Finney Hairston, MSSA, PhD

Dean and Professor of Social Work at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Dean Hairston’s current research and many of her publications focus on the impact of incarceration and reentry on families and children, and the impact of child welfare policies on children. She edited, with Cynthia Seymour, Children with Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues (2001).

 PPT Presentation (PDF)

Panel Presentation

Dr. Hairston was followed by a panel discussion of practitioners who implement programs for children of incarcerated parents. Panelists were:

  • Trina Starr, MSW Program Coordinator Mentoring Children of Promise of the Lac Courte Oreille Tribe
  • Josh Gerrity, LSW Parent & Family Program Coordinator MN Correctional Facility-Shakopee
  • Sarah Dass, BSW Case Manager/Prison Program Coordinator Volunteers of America
  • Kelsey Barbara Jones, SW Child Protection Services Specialist Otter Tail County Human Services

This was a free, live teleconference sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW), School of Social Work, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, to your county ITV site and made possible by a Title IV-E training grant administered by the MN Department of Human Services.