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Co-Directors
Jill Duerr Berrick &
Neil Gilbert
Address
16 Haviland Hall #7400
Telephone
510 643-7026
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The Center for Child and Youth Policy at U.C. Berkeley is a new Organized
Research Unit that brings together the talents of faculty from across
campus who share an interest in children's issues and children's policy.
The Center is focused on interdisciplinary research, and information dissemination
to public policy makers at the state and local level.
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The Center was established in January 2001 and has thus far focused much
of its energy on activities necessary to set up its infrastructure. The
Center has also had the opportunity to co-sponsor several events that
were held on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Each of these events presented
new ideas and research that addressed current children’s issues.
Events have included the following:
- A forum entitled “Critical Perspectives on Child Welfare Reform:
Who Speaks for the Child?” This event was co-sponsored with the
Center for Social Justice and the School of Journalism and featured
child welfare judges and attorneys, child welfare advocates, and educators
interested in the current state of foster care.
- A conference entitled “The Daily Lives of Poor Families”
that presented qualitative studies that addressed the experiences of
poor families under welfare reform.
- An international, two-day conference entitled “Welfare Reform:
A Comparative Assessment of French and U.S. Experiences”. Co-sponsored
by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Social
Security Association, this conference examined the implementation and
outcomes of the U.S. and French social policies designed to activate
social assistance recipients.
- An international, two-day conference entitled “Designing Modern
Childhoods: Landscapes, Buildings, and Material Culture” that
highlighted research on the architectural and material culture of children.
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The Center has provided seed funding for the development of two new research
projects: a study of the consumption of Ritalin and Adderall for the treatment
of Attention Deficit Disorder, and a study of factors contributing to
preterm birth and low birth weight.
This year the Center will begin its Child Policy Forum to bring together
U.C. faculty and state legislators to discuss specific topics concerning
children’s policy.
The Center will continue to conduct a variety of activities, forums,
seminars and conferences, all of which focus on interdisciplinary child
and youth policy research and dissemination.
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