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"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
~ Albert Einstein
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In partnership with the Human Development & Family Studies' Vladimir de Lissovoy Program Support Endowment for the Protection of Children, our fifth annual awareness event, "Building Resilience and Hope", is taking place April 7 at the Bryce Jordan Center. Come learn about Penn State’s new Fostering Lions Program, hear from A Second Chance founder Sharon McDaniel, receive updates on legislation, and engage in the discussion of fostering youth from care, to school, to graduation, and on to economic independence and healthier lives. We'll see you there!
- Sandee Kyler, Solutions Network assistant director
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Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Spring Awareness Event
Sharon McDaniel, Founder, President & Chief Executive, A Second Chance, Inc., will present "Advocating for Foster Youth Success" at the Child Maltreatment Spring Awareness event, taking place April 7, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Founder's Room at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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New project to identify risk factors for sexual exploitation of children
Solutions Network co-funded faculty member Sheridan Miyamoto heads up a project to examine the incident rates and risk factors for commercial sexual exploitation of children in Pennsylvania.
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Youth who help reformers must be treated as partners, not tokens
Policymakers, practitioners and advocates seeking to improve the juvenile justice system have increasingly acted on calls from youth and their families to make “no decisions about us, without us.”
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Can an algorithm tell when kids are in danger?
Child protection agencies are haunted when the fail to save kids. Pittsburgh officials believe a new data analysis program is helping them make better judgement calls.
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Neglected kids do better with earlier foster family placement
Neglected children placed with foster care families earlier in life are more likely to be as resilient and competent socially, academically, and physically as their peers who have never been institutionalized when they reach their teenage years.
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Policy options for improving child welfare
RAND researchers developed a quantitative model that simulates how 24 million children born between 2010 and 2015 interact with the country’s child welfare system. The model marks the first-ever attempt to integrate risk of maltreatment, detection, paths through the system and consequences to predict the impact of policy changes.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article198125784.html#storylink=cpy
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2018 Summer Research Institute Announcement and Call for Applications
The 26th Annual Summer Research Institute (SRI) will be held on May 31, June 1, June 4, and June 5 as an online distance learning experience. Applications to participate in the 2018 SRI are due on or before March 15, 2018.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article198125784.html#storylink=cpy
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Christian M. Connell
Christian M. Connell is a co-funded Solutions Network faculty member and associate professor of human development and family studies. His research focuses on the experiences of youth who have been maltreated, as well as those who become involved in the child welfare system and other child-serving systems such as such as mental health and juvenile justice. Dr. Connell comes to the Solutions Network after receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina and completed pre- and postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.
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