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Workshop on Children and Domestic Abuse
Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence
Institute of Medicine/National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences

Washington, D.C.
April 10, 2000

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AUDIO SECTION 1

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Welcome, Introductions, and Purpose of the Workshop

  • Patricia King, Workshop Chair & Professor of Law, Georgetown University
  • Michele Kipke, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
What Can we Do to Ensure the Safety, Security, and Well-Being of Children and How can We Prevent Children From Being Exposed to Domestic Violence?

  • Jeremy Travis, Director, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Carol Williams, Visiting Professor, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
  • Lucy Salcido Carter, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Q&A and General Discussion


AUDIO SECTION 2

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Research on the Prevalence and Effects of Child Exposure to Domestic Violence

  • John Fantuzzo, Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania
  • Ross Thompson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska
  • Ernest Jouriles, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston

Moderator: Jeffrey Edleson, Professor, University of Minnesota

Q&A and General Discussion


AUDIO SECTION 3

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
How Are We and How Should We be Responding to Children’s Exposure to Domestic Violence?

  • Judge Cindy S. Lederman, Administrative Judge, Juvenile Division, Juvenile Justice Center, Miami, FL
  • Pamela L. Whitney, Director, Domestic Violence and Family Support, Massachusetts Department of Social Services
  • Elaine Alpert, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Moderator: Peter Jaffe

Q&A and General Discussion


AUDIO SECTION 4

1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Innovative Approaches to Designing & Evaluating Intervention Programs

  • Mental health in a health care setting - Betsy McAlister Groves, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
  • Community policing and child development - Steven Berkowitz, Coordinator, Child Development and Community Policing Program, Yale University
  • School based prevention/youth - David Wolfe, Professor, Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario
  • Program targeted to batterers - Oliver Williams, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota

Moderator: Joel Greenhouse, Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Q&A and General Discussion


AUDIO SECTION 5

2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Research, Evaluation and Program Effectiveness

  • Cris Sullivan, Associate Professor, Ecological Psychology, Michigan State University
  • Sandra Graham-Bermann, Associate Professor of Psychology and Woman’s Studies Program, University of Michigan

Q&A and General Discussion

AUDIO SECTION 6

3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice

  • Jeffrey L. Edleson, Professor, University of Minnesota
  • David Kolko, Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, Special Services Unit, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

4:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks

  • Patricia King
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