Скачать или смотреть Juvenile Law Center presents a conversation with Sixto Cancel and Dorothy Roberts

A BETTER APPROACH TO CHILD WELFARE: FROM WITHIN OR WITHOUT THE SYSTEM?

Growing calls to abolish the U.S. child welfare system are challenging its entrenched logic and pointing to well-documented evidence of the limited impact of attempts to reform it. On one hand, the mainstream approach to child welfare and protection is one that places the blame on parents for their children’s hardships and separates them from those children, ignoring the societal and systemic inequities that create those hardships and disproportionately subject poor families and families of color to system entanglement. On the other hand, scholarly research and the accounts of those with lived experience in substitute care point to the harm that the system itself inflicts on those it purports to serve. What does it mean to work toward a society where children no longer experience violence or unmet needs in their homes or the trauma of being removed from their families and communities? And what legislative changes, government policies, community-based resources, and systems of care are needed to get us there?

May 3, 2022
Philadelphia, PA
the Hive @ Spring Point Partners, LLC

Susan Vivian Mangold
CEO, Juvenile Law Center

Sarah Fathallah, Moderator
Vice-President, Research & Design and Co-Founder, Center for Lived Experience

Dorothy Roberts, JD
Professor of Africana Studies, Law & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Juvenile Law Center 2022 Leadership Prize Winner

Sixto Cancel, CEO and Founder, Think of Us
Juvenile Law Center Board Member & 2021 Leadership Prize Winner

Juvenile Law Center fights for rights, dignity, equity, and opportunity for youth. We work to reduce the harm of the child welfare and justice systems, limit their reach, and ultimately abolish them so all young people can thrive.

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Music: It's Time by Mj Flo / @cashflotv

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