March 2010Vol. 11, No. 2Conferences
Upcoming national conferences on adoption and child welfare through June 2010 include:
April 2010
- NOFSW 27th Annual Conference
Forensic Social Work: Integrating Research, Policy and Practice
National Organization of Forensic Social Work
April 10–14, Atlanta, GA
- Families on the Fault Lines: Re-Imagining Race, Kinship, & Care
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Race & Gender
April 29–30, Berkeley, CA
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/families-faultlines-re-imagining-race-kinship-care - Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture: 3rd International Conference
Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies
April 29–May 2, Cambridge, MA
http://web.me.com/shaslang/ASAC_2010_Conference/Welcome.html
May 2010
- Daniel Memorial Institute 17th Annual National Foster Care Conference
Footsteps to the Future
May 12–14, Clearwater Beach, FL
- Prevent Child Abuse America National Conference
Changing the Way We Think About Prevention: Making Children Our Priority
May 17–19, Jacksonville, FL
http://www.preventchildabuse.org/index.shtml
June 2010
- 2010 Family Group Decision Making and Other Family Engagement Approaches Conference
Fostering All the Connections
American Humane
June 22–25, Burlington, VT
- Substance Exposed Newborns: Collaborative Approaches to a Complex Issue
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center/University of California, Berkeley
June 23–24, Alexandria, VA
http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/SEN2010 - APSAC's 18th Annual National Colloquium
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
June 23–26, New Orleans, LA
www.apsac.org/mc/community/eventdetails.do?eventId=231148
Further details about national and regional adoption and child welfare conferences can be found through the Conference Calendar Search feature on the Child Welfare Information Gateway website:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/calendar/index.cfm