2018 Silent Victims
Silent Victims:
Foster Care and Foster Care Adoption in America
Conference at Duke Law School, Friday, November 16, 2018
Sponsored by Duke Law School and Center for Adoption Policy
Friday, November 16, 2018 |
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8:00-8:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast | |
8:30-8:45 a.m. | Introductory Remarks | |
Professor Kathryn W. Bradley, Duke Law School |
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Professor Diane B. Kunz, Co-Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy |
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8:45-9:30 a.m. | Keynote Address | |
Speaker: Professor Richard J. Gelles, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania |
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9:30-10:45 a.m. | Panel I: AFSA and Families First Prevention Services Act: What is Going Right, What is Going Wrong | |
This panel will explore the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 and the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, discussing their philosophies and effects on foster care and adoption, and considering what legislative changes would be beneficial | ||
Moderator: Professor Kathryn W. Bradley, Duke Law School Professor |
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Panelists: Dr. Cassie Statuto Bevan, Lecturer, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania |
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Dr. Ryan Hanlon, Vice President, National Council For Adoption |
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Sean Hughes, Director of Government Relations, Social Change Partners, LLC |
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Angie Schwartz, Esq., Policy Program Director, Alliance for Children's Rights |
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10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | Break | |
11:00 - 12:15 p.m. | Panel II: Freedom and Foster Care | |
This panel will focus on the tension between various state "religious liberty" laws and the need to ensure that all foster children, including LGBTQ youth, receive the most appropriate care. | ||
Moderator: Professor Douglas NeJaime, Yale Law School | ||
Panelists: Professor Stephanie Barclay, BYU Law School |
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Professor Margaret F. Brinig, University of Notre Dame Law School |
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Professor Jordan Woods, University of Arkansas School of Law |
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12:15-1:30 p.m. | Lunch Conversation: Tales from the Trenches: Family Separation, Flores, and Foster Care | |
During this session, we will hear from advocates working on behalf of children and families separated at the US border during 2018. | ||
Moderator: Professor Jayne Huckerby, Duke Law School |
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Panelists: Professor Joan Hollinger, Berekley Law School |
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Prudence Beidler Carr, Esq., Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law |
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Professor Megan Finno-Velasquez, Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, School of Social Work, New Mexico State University |
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1:30-2:45 p.m. | Panel III: The Opioid Crisis: What Can Be Done for the Children | |
This panel will discuss the explosion in the number of children needing foster care due to the current opiod crisis, with the caseload in many areas doubling in the last five years, and will examine what the 1980's drug epidemic can teach us about how best to help these children and their families | ||
Moderator: Professor DeLeith Duke Gossett, Texas Tech University | ||
Panelists: Professor Johanna Greeson, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania |
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Seth A. Grob, Esq., Grob & Eirich LLC |
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Dr. Evette Horton, Clinical Assistant Professor, Horizons Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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2:30-3:00 p.m. | Break | |
3:00-4:15 p.m. | Panel IV: Immigration and Citizenship Issues for Foster Children | |
This panel will consider the transnational consequences of the placement and care of U.S. foster children. International adopted children who come into U.S. foster care may lack U.S. citizenship or be ineligible for citizenship under current U.S. law. Similarly, state child welfare agencies that would like to place foster children for adoption into international homes face regulatory and administrative hurdles because of the conflict between U.S. domestic foster care rules and international adoption rules. |
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Moderator: Professor Diane B. Kunz, Duke Law School | ||
Panelists: Dan H. Berger, Esq., Curran & Berger LLP |
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Andrew Guernsey, Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Roy Blount |
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LaTina Marsh, Department of State, Branch Chief, Office of Children's Issues |
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4:15-5:30 p.m. | Panel V: Focus on a State: North Carolina's Foster Care System | |
North Carolina is facing a foster care crisis, in large part because the state is a center of opioid addiction. This panel will explore the effectiveness of North Carolina's current foster care system and suggest ways in which it can be improved. |
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Moderator: Professor Jane Wettach, Duke Law School | ||
Panelists: Lisa Cauley, Child Welfare Director, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
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Dina Gerber, Center for Child and Family Health |
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Sharon Hirsch, President and CEO, Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina |