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SUMMARY:CT4A Spotlight: Child Thriving Communities
DESCRIPTION:\nUnderstanding the Key Ingredients Towards Well-being\n\n\n\nThis session will explore foundations of child thriving communities. Key areas of consideration include educational settings and associated policies, youth voice and participation and the role of democracy on the well-being of individuals and their communities. Successful examples as well as ongoing barriers will be discussed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInvited Panel\n\n\n\n\nModerator\n\n\n\nJill D. McLeigh, PhD\n\n\n\nDirector of Research, Policy and Advocacy at Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence | Children’s Health\n\n\n\nConnect on LinkedIn\n\n\n\n\n	\n	\n		Read Bio	\n	\n	\n		\n\nJill D. McLeigh, PhD is director of Policy, Advocacy, and Research at the Rees-Jones Center for Foster Care Excellence, Children’s Health in Dallas, and assistant adjoint professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO.  She is a past president of the Global Alliance and a former co-editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.  She currently is the co-editor of the International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice.  Her primary research interest has been in preventive measures and interventions that seek to strengthen communities’ capacity for family support, participation, and mutual assistance.  This interest includes understanding how services to families should be designed and delivered, so as to promote child safety and well-being.  \n\n	\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOscar A. Barbarin, PhD\n\n\n\nProfessor, African American Studies | University of Maryland \n\n\n\nConnect on LinkedIn\n\n\n\n\n	\n	\n		Read Bio	\n	\n	\n		\n\nOscar A. Barbarin, PhD, is professor of African American Studies and professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park.  He is a past president of the Global Alliance and a former co-editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.  Dr. Barbarin’s research aims to illiminate biopsychosocial influences on children’s development especially externalizing problems in boys of color.  He has organized a group of nationally prominent researchers to complete longitudinal analyses of data on the social, academic and emotionsl development of boys of color.  He is a recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Understanding International, Cultural and Contextual Diversity in Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).\n\n	\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Garbarino, PhD\n\n\n\nEmeritus Professor of Psychology  | Loyola University Chicago and Cornell University\n\n\n\nConnect on LinkedIn\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n	\n		Read Bio	\n	\n	\n		\n\nJames Garbarino, PhD, is emeritus professor of Psychology at Cornell University and at Loyola University Chicago.   From 2006-2020, he held the Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology and was founding Director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago.  His research focuses on issues in the social ecology of child and adolescent development.  He has had a long-standing interest in a wide range of violence-related issues, including war, child maltreatment, childhood aggression, and juvenile delinquency.  Dr. Garbarino has served as consultant or advisor to a wide range of organizations, including the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, the National Institute for Mental Health, the American Medical Association, the National Black Child Development Institute, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the FBI.  Dr. Garbarino was the 2011 recipient of the Max Hayman Award for his work in educating both the general public and human service professionals about the nature of social toxicity and its meaning and consequences for children, adolescents, and their families.  \n\n	\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Scheer, PhD\n\n\n\nAssistant Professor, Population Science and Policy | Southern Illinois University School of Medicine\n\n\n\nConnect on LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-sheeran-ph-d-98692a235/ )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n	\n		Read Bio	\n	\n	\n		\n\nAnne Scheer, PhD, is a children’s sociologist at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Department of Population Science and Policy in Springfield, IL.   She pursues individual and collaborative research to better understand children’s own views about health, well-being, the environments in which they live, learn, and play, and explores how communities, systems, and institutions can become more child friendly.   Since 2020, Dr. Scheer has been leading efforts in Alton, IL, to transform the city into a UNICEF-recognized Child Friendly City. Dr. Scheer’s work around the Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) in Alton seeks to engage children, youth, their families, and communities in identifying priorities for action and solutions that are both locally feasible and sustainable on our path to creating a city in which all children are happy, healthy, and safe. Further supporting this work, Dr. Scheer also leads a local coalition of 14 stakeholder organizations working to improve health equity, collaborates with local law enforcement to address high rates of youth violence, and explores innovative, low-barrier, community-based responses to the current crisis in children’s and youth mental health.\n\n	\n		\n\n\n\n\n\nResources\n\n\n\nChild-Thriving-Communities-PanelDownload\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nComing Together For Action (CT4A) ( https://www.bhjustice.org/together4action ) is an interdisciplinary symposium on behavioral health, social justice, and healthier communities. \n\n\n\nWith a theme of Toward Mental Wellness, our 2024 symposium furthers our call to action in addressing individuals, families, and communities in local, national, and global contexts through an interdisciplinary lens. \n\n\n\nCT4A brings together individuals with backgrounds in psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, law, planning, education, international community development, political science, technology, economics, and more. Our attendees include early and mid-career professionals, teens, college students, retirees, and people of all kinds with valuable lived experience at the intersections of health, justice, and communities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.bhjustice.org/events/ct4a-2024-spotlight-child-thriving-communities/
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