Parent Representation Video

This new video offers a national view on representing parents in child welfare cases. 

Trauma Presentations

Learn about child trauma and polyvictimization. View presentations from the Center's Child Trauma Project. 

Featured presentation: Polyvictimization - What it is and Why it Matters

Hardin Award Winner Announced

Frank Cervone is the 2014 recipient of the Mark Hardin Award for Child Welfare Legal Scholarship and Systems Change. He will receive the award at the April 2014 CIP Meeting.

If we're not here, we're in the field. See where Center staff & consultants are heading.

April 28-30: Tribal CIP, CIP Meeting, Drug Court Institute
April 30-May 3: OCAN Conference
May 1-3: APA-ABA National Conference: Confronting Family and Community Violence

May 2: Western Regional Technical Assistance Meeting
May 13: Permanency Barriers Project PA County Training Day - Improving Communication Skills: Active Listening for our Families
May 15: YLD Spring Conference

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