ACHIEVING FAMILY PERMANENCE: A PUBLIC POLICY BRIEFING
The Public Policy Briefing at the 2006 National Convening
on Youth Permanence was moderated by Sania A. Metzger, Esq.,
director of policy at Casey Family Services, and the Honorable
Michael F. Brennan, majority leader of the Maine State Senate
and cochair of the Casey Family Services Board of Advisors.
Welcome:
Douglas W. Nelson, President, the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Raymond L. Torres, Executive Director, Casey Family Services
Keynote:
Family Permanence for Older Children and Youth: From Neighborhoods
to the Halls of Congress
The Honorable Danny
K. Davis (D-IL), U.S. House of Representatives
Plenary
One
Policies to Promote Permanence for Older Children
and Youth: An Examination of Finances, Settings, Caregivers,
and Prevention Services |
Where to
Put the Money? What are the Necessary Fiscal Changes?
MaryLee Allen, Director, Division of Child Welfare,
Children’s Defense Fund
Reducing the Overreliance on Congregate
Care
Leonard Burton, Chief Operating Officer, Jim Casey Youth
Opportunities Initiative
Support for Guardian and Kinship Caregivers
Ada Skyles, Esq., Associate Director, Chapin Hall Center
for Children, University of Chicago
Keeping Teens Out of Foster Care and
Supporting Prevention Services
The Honorable Patricia Macías, 388th Family District
and Associate Court, El Paso, Texas, and Sandra Jiménez,
Trainer, Consultant, and Parent Advocate
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Plenary
Two
Doing the Work: Policy Reform and Implementation
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What Does
it Take: Administrative Reform is Possible
John Mattingly, Esq., Commissioner, Administration for
Children and Families, New York City
Advocating to Promote Change: Examples
from California
Leslie Heimov, Esq., Director of Policy, The Children’s
Law Center of Los Angeles
Works in Progress: Family Permanence
Programs at the State Level
Gary Stangler, Executive Director, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities
Initiatives, and Nadege Mardy Breeden, Youth Representative
Giving Youth a Voice: Participation in
Dependency Court Proceedings
Jane M. Spinak, Esq., Professor, Columbia University
School of Law
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