Preventing Child Abuse in an Age of Budget Deficits

A Future of Children Event
Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
On July 20th, The Future of Children will hold a public event and online webinar to discuss ways that prevention programs can both save money and protect children across a range of social programs if abuse and neglect can be prevented. The event, planned in cooperation with Voices for America's Children, features an expert panel that will focus on both practice and research and draws from the recent The Future of Children volume on this topic. Speakers will also address the prospects that prevention services can be expanded during these difficult economic times.
Panelists will take questions from the audience and online - and include:
Ron Haskins, Moderator
Co-Director, Center on Children and Families
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Senior Editor, The Future of Children

Rev. Darrell Armstrong
Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church
Director, Prevention and Community Partnerships
New Jersey Department of Children and Families

Richard P. Barth
Dean, School of Social Work
University of Maryland - Baltimore

Mary Coogan
Assistant Director
Association for Children of New Jersey

David Olds
Professor of Pediatrics & Director, Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
University of Colorado - Denver


More information to follow about how to register for the webinar and/or live event.
The Future of Children is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. For more information, please visit www.futureofchildren.org.