Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 3, 2000

Volume 28, Number 23

Law School colloquium to explore welfare 'reform'

The impact of welfare reform and responses to it will be explored by legal scholars and individuals who work with families and children during the Law School's Arthur Liman Public Interest Colloquium on Friday, March 3.

The day-long colloquium, titled "Welfare 'Reform' and Response," will include roundtable and working group discussions. Mary Clark, director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at the Law School, will welcome participants at 9:20 a.m.

Law professor Kathleen Sullivan will moderate a roundtable discussion beginning at 9:30 a.m. on the topic "Welfare 'Reform' and Response -- A Historical Perspective and Current Innovative Responses." Participating in the discussion will be Michael Katz, the Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania; Dillonna Lewis and Beatrice Lopez of the Welfare Rights Initiative at the Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy; Gracie Brown and Cherie Quickmire of Mothers for Justice; and Michelle Lang Palter of New Haven Legal Assistance.

Three working group discussions will take place concurrently beginning at 1 p.m. Paula Gaber, a 1999-2000 Liman Fellow at the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles, California, will be the facilitator of a group focusing on the topic "Investing in Families' Futures." A second group will discuss "Anticipating the Impact of Welfare Reform on Children, Families and the Child Welfare System." Facilitators for this group will be Juliet McKenna, a Liman Fellow at Lawyers for Children America in Washington, D.C., and Paula Armbruster, associate clinical professor, director of outpatient services and director of social work training at the Yale Child Study Center. The third group will discuss "Surviving the Crises of Welfare Reform: A Case Study in Welfare, Child Care and Public Housing." The facilitators of this group will be Jessica Sager, a Liman Fellow at the New Haven organization All Our Kin; Janna Wagner, program director of All Our Kin; Tamara Watts, a member of the board of All Our Kin and a third-year student at the Law School; and participants in the All Our Kin program.

"Where Do We Go From Here: Looking Back to Make Plans for the Future" will be the theme of a talk at 3 p.m. by Shelley Geballe, co-director of Connecticut Voices for Children. Kathleen Sullivan will moderate.

With the exception of the working group sessions, all colloquium events will be held in Rm. 120 of the Law School. The three working group sessions will be in Rooms 108, 110 and 111.

Admission to the colloquium is free, but registration is required. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. A continental breakfast and a buffet lunch will be provided. Following the afternoon session, participants will continue their discussions during informal dinners in downtown New Haven.

For further information, call (203) 432-8464.

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