Media Advisory: 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25
‘A New Beginning’ for children, families in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA – Child welfare, education, foster care, juvenile justice and mental health are among topics to be addressed at the 12th Annual Conference on A New Beginning for Partnerships for Children & Families in Los Angeles County cosponsored by California State University, Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Focusing on issues concerning the welfare of children and families in Los Angeles County, the conference will be held Thursday, Oct. 25, from 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The opening workshop will be presented by Daniel J. Siegel, author of The Mindful Brain, who will discuss “How Relationships Shape the Brain.” He is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, director of interdisciplinary studies for the international nonprofit Children’s Mental Health Alliance in New York, and director of the Center for Human Development.
During the luncheon, the keynote address, entitled “Addressing Father Absence in Child Welfare,” will be presented by Hershel K. Swinger, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of education at Cal State L.A. He is also serving as director of Project Fatherhood, a parenting and support service group that encourages men to become more active in the rearing of their children.
Other sessions will include:
- “The Obesity Epidemic—What Can Be Done to Help Foster Children?”
- “Changing a Life Through Quality Education: A How to Workshop That Provides Steps for Placing Foster Youths in Exceptional Schools”
- “Immigration Options for Abused, Neglected & Abandoned Children”
- “Transgender 101”
- “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Impacting Children in Foster Care and the Juvenile Justice System”
- “Treatment Services and Recidivism Among Crossover Youths in Los Angeles County”
- “Child Abduction of Dependent Children”
- “Mental Health Services for Children/Youth in the Dependency and Delinquency Systems”
For more information or a complete schedule, call the conference office at (323) 343-4832 or go to /sites/default/files/academic/hhs/cafvi/2007_New_Beginnings.pdf.
WHAT: Cal State L.A. and the L.A. County Superior Court to present the 12th Annual Conference on A New Beginning for Partnerships for Children & Families in Los Angeles County.
WHEN: 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25; welcome begins at 8:30 a.m. with workshops to follow.
WHERE: Los Angeles Convention Center. For parking or directions, call (800) 448-7775.
Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 200,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds—reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center. www.calstatela.edu
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