
NCSL's Child Welfare Fellows meeting in Nashville.
Child welfare systems are undergoing a sea change throughout the United States as policymakers and researchers explore how to shift focus and resources to proactively preventing child abuse and neglect rather than primarily reacting when it does occur. This meeting will introduce fellows to essential concepts in an interactive peer-learning setting.
This program is designed to help you achieve the following goals:
- Strengthen your knowledge of child welfare and child maltreatment
- Explore options to prevent child maltreatment and mitigate the consequences when it does
- Foster new relationships among fellows, faculty and NCSL
- Develop an individual legislative action
- Identify opportunities for NCSL to support your individual action
This meeting will be co-located with NCSL’s Youth Homelessness Fellows and shared learning will take place through crossover programming with the Youth Homelessness Fellows. Please visit your cohort page for all session materials and additional resources.
This meeting is made possible through grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Pritzker Children’s Initiative. The CDC support is part of a financial assistance award totaling $363,000 with 50% funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, CDC/HHS or the U.S. government.