TRAINING WORKSHOP:
Child Neglect:
Who, Where, When, Why and What to Do About It
Findings from 20 Years of Research
Friday,
June 15, 2012
NOTE NEW LOCATION:
The Heights
8001 Dale Avenue
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
The fee is $10 for non-members, cash or check only.
Drawing from national and St. Louis metro area research spanning the past two decades, Dr. Brett Drake of Washington University will discuss which kinds of families are more likely to experience neglect, the importance of neighborhood, race, age and developmental issues, what we know about what causes neglect and what we know about how to work with it.
Schedule
of Events:
8:30-9:00am - Walk-in Registration and
Networking
9:00am-noon - Workshop
The presenter of this workshop is Dr. Brett Drake.
Brett Drake has been a professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis since 1991. He has been interested in early child welfare system response, evaluating poverty and race in particular. He is currently engaged in longitudinal research funded by the Centers for Disease Control, tracking maltreated children as they age into young adults, in an effort to under- stand downstream consequences of child maltreatment. Dr. Drake also is engaged in work on Evidence Based Practice pedagogy.
