related to children's well-being
"Improving the Well-Being of Our Children: Closing the Gap Between Research and Policy" is the subject of a symposium taking place on Friday, April 8, at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
The event, which runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., "will address the disconnect between the abundance of research data on the needs of children and federal and state policy," according to its organizers.
"In spite of extensive information on how to improve outcomes in key areas such as education, foster care and child health, the United States continues to compare unfavorably to other industrialized nations in measures of child well-being," they write in the brochure for the event. "The central question of the symposium will be: How can researchers, child advocates and policymakers work together to inform public policy?"
Participants include noted individuals from each of those spheres, including Janice Gruendel, senior adviser for early childhood in the Connecticut Governor's Office; MaryLee Allen, director of the Child Welfare and Mental Health Division of the Children's Defense Fund; Helen Blank, director of leadership and public policy for the National Women's Law Center; Sharon Lynn Kagan, the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy at the Teacher's College at Columbia University and a professor (adjunct) at the Yale Child Study Center; and Elaine Zimmerman, executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Children, among others.
Panelists will explore such topics as early childhood development and education, foster care and universal health coverage for children.
The event is free and open to the public, but e-mail registration for the event is strongly encouraged. To register, e-mail lili.beit@yale.edu with the subject line "Children's Policy Symposium." For further information, call Beit at (203) 432-9736.
"Improving the Well-Being of Our Children" is sponsored by the Yale Bioethics Project and Casey Family Services with additional support from the Connecticut Health Foundation, Friends of the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the School of Nursing.
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