UNLV's School of Social Work will host the seventh annual Child Welfare Conference on May 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Moyer Student Union.
The conference, "Thinking Critically to Strengthen Families," will offer sessions for social workers and other child welfare advocates on a variety of topics, including family-centered policy and practice, child welfare reform, and domestic violence and child protection.
Featured presenters will include Richard Wexler , executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform in Washington, D.C.; Dennis Bean , program administrator for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services' Continuous Quality Improvement Program in Oklahoma City; Bernardine Dohrn , director of the Children and Family Justice Center at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago; and Karl Dennis, president of Karl Dennis and Associates, a child welfare consulting company in Chicago.
Registration fees are $120 for professionals and $30 for full-time students. Registration forms and additional program information are available at <a href="http://www.unlv.edu/Colleges/Urban/Social_Work/">www.unlv.edu/Colleges/U....
For more information, contact Leroy Pelton, UNLV professor of social work, at 895-1329, or Alvin Sallee, director of the Family Preservation Institute, at (505) 646-7567.
The conference is sponsored by the State of Nevada Division of Child and Family Services; the Eighth Judicial Court's Family Court Division Court Improvement Project; UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law; and the Family Preservation Institute at New Mexico State University.
