RE: Call for Papers

Please find my submission materials attached. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Emily Douglas

Emily M. Douglas, Ph.D.

Department of Social Work | Bridgewater State Univ. | Bridgewater, MA 02325

Visiting Research Fellow 2010-11 | Family Research Lab. | Univ. of New Hampshire

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National Research Conference on Child & Family Programs & Policy

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From: bounce-6263429-13358295@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bounce-6263429-13358295@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debra Schilling Wolfe
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:47 PM
To: Child-Maltreatment-Research-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Call for Papers

The Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce its fourth biennial conference, One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare. The Field Center’s Faculty Directors, Richard J. Gelles, PhD, Cindy W. Christian, MD, and Alan M. Lerner, Esq., representing the University of Pennsylvania’s Schools of Social Policy & Practice, Law, and Medicine, look forward to another conference in which promising policy, research, and practice in child welfare is shared with a multidisciplinary audience.

One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare is issuing a Call for Papers. Proposed presentations are solicited which advance the field of child welfare from the perspective of a variety of disciplines. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is serving as lead sponsor of the conference. Scheduled for June 8 - 10, 2011, this national conference will again be held at the Wharton School on Penn's Philadelphia campus.

Proposals need to include a cover sheet, maximum 25 word abstract, and maximum 500 word overview. Cover sheets and criteria for submission and review are attached. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2010.

Debra Schilling Wolfe
Executive Director
Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research
University of Pennsylvania
3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.573.5442
www.fieldcenteratpenn.org

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