CONFERENCE - PROGRAM EVALUATION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE

[David Finkelhor <David.Finkelhor@xxxxxxx>]

          PROGRAM EVALUATION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE RESEARCH: AN 
          INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
          Sponsored by The Family Research Laboratory
          University of New Hampshire
          Sunday - Wednesday, July 26-29, 1998
          New England Center, Durham, NH, USA
          
          AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
               
          In its continuing series of international conferences on Family
          Violence Research, the Family Research Laboratory invites you to a
          conference with a special focus on program evaluation research.  In
          recent years, as the family violence research field has grown and
          matured, an increasing number of investigators have devoted
          themselves to looking at prevention and intervention programs.  Such
          programs include: home visitation programs to strengthen parenting
          and reduce child abuse risk, treatment programs to stop domestic
          violence, and school programs to teach sexual assault or dating
          violence prevention or alternatives to peer aggression.  Other 
          research efforts have focused on evaluating new public policies, like
          mandatory arrests or family reunifications, in state agencies, in 
          local communities and in the military.
          
          PROGRAM TOPICS
          
          This conference is intended to be a forum to exchange findings and
          innovations regarding such program evaluations and to help improve
          the general quality of this work. We invite papers and panels based
          on a broad range of topics that relate to program evaluation:
          
		Design issues in program evaluation and family violence
		Theoretical frameworks to inform evaluations
     		Meta-analyses of program outcomes
     		Instrumentation for use in evaluation and family violence
     		Human subjects issues in evaluation
     		Policy implications of evaluation findings
     		International studies
     		School-based assault prevention
     		Parenting enhancement programs
     		Home visitation
     		Victim services utilization and impact
     		Community wide violence reduction
     		Police interventions
     		Court studies and diversion programs
     		Abuser, couple and family treatments
     		Sexual abuse/assault treatment
     		Child protective system operation and outcomes
          	Family reunification
     		Foster care
     		Medical care services and outcomes
     		Systems change research
     		Process evaluation approaches
     		Offender recidivism methodology and findings
     		Services for especially vulnerable populations


          ABSTRACTS
          
          Submission Deadline: FEBRUARY 1, 1998
          
          In reviewing abstracts, priority will be given to topics related to
          evaluation. Research and theory on general family violence topics
          will be accepted if space is available and if they include 
          consideration of the implications for program evaluation. Papers
          that describe programs, but that contain no evaluation data,
	  will not be accepted.
          
          The program will also feature a number of pre-conference workshops
          to provide training and more in-depth consideration of key program
          evaluation research issues.


 	  CONFERENCE SETTING

	  The New England Center, the setting for the conference, is
	  surrounded by woods on the beautiful campus of the University of
	  New Hampshire in Durham.  This pituresque area is located an
 	  hour north of Boston, Massachusetts, and close to the White
	  Mountains of New Hampshire.  It is only minutes away from the
	  seacoast of New Hampshire and Maine.  Nearby are charming towns
	  such as Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire, that offer
	  excellent restaurants and shopping, and interesting historical
	  landmarks.  Plan to begin or end your summer vacation here in
	  New England.

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	  Deadlines:
		Receipt of Abstracts----------------------February 1, 1998
		Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts, Registration
			Mailing-----------------------------March 31, 1998
		Early Registration Deadline-------------------May 15, 1998
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          Additional information about the conference will be available at the
          website of the Family Research Lab:
          
            http://www.unh.edu/frl
          
          To receive abstract forms or to be placed on conference mailing
          list, write:
          
          Conference Secretary
          Family Research Lab
          University of New Hampshire
          126 Horton Social Science Center
          Durham, NH 03824
          Ph. (603)862-1888
          Fax (603)862-1122
          e-mail: khf@hopper.unh.edu
          


Kelly H. Foster
Family Research Laboratory
University of New Hampshire
126 Horton Social Science Center
Durham, NH  03824
Phone: (603)862-1888
Fax: (603)862-1122

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