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POC Researchers to present at SRCD Biennial Meeting
Published on March 15, 2013

The Society for Research in Child Development's Biennial Meeting will be here in Seattle from April 18-20. POC's own J. Mark Eddy, Maureen Marcenko, and Susan Barkan will be among the presenters.

Dr. Marcenko's presentation on The Context of Child Welfare Practice with Infants and Young Children is scheduled for 8:30 AM on Saturday, April 20, in Room 310.

Dr. Eddy will present during a roundtable entitled The Children of Incarcerated Parents: Lessons from the Field for the Conduct of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies at 4:10 PM. on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Room 3B; will present a poster entitled A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Long-Term Professional Youth Mentoring Program for High Risk Children: A One Year Follow-Up at 11:40 AM on Friday, April 19, in Exhibit Hall 4EF; and is an author on a presentation that will be given by Dr. Joann Wu Shortt from the Oregon Social Learning Center during the symposium Incorporating Emotion Socialization and Emotion Coaching into Parent-Child Interventions at 8:30 a.m. on April 20, 2013 in Room 612.

Dr. Barkan will present a poster (at Poster Session 6) titled The Lessons Learned from Adapting and Implementing an Evidence-Based Prevention Program in Child Welfare Settings from 4-5 PM in Exhibit Hall 4EF (#119) on Thursday, April 18th.

The entire program is available through the SRCD's website.

POC Releases The Washington State Child Well-Being Data Portal
Published on February 13, 2013

Partners for Our Children is pleased to announce the release of Version 1.0 of the Washington State Child Well-Being Data Portal. 

With the release of the Data Portal, a collaboration with the Department of Social and Health Services, Washington State will have its first public source for up-to-date information on Washington's child welfare system. POC hopes this new technology will bring together the thousands of people who work to serve disadvantaged families with common data, promoting better understanding of the issues they face, making it easier to access needed data, and fueling improvement of our child welfare system.

The Data Portal provides a place for users to learn about topics such as kinship care, family reunification, guardianship, and more. It allows users to create their own customized data queries using filters such as time period, race/ethnicity, and location. POC predicts that the Data Portal will help drive improvements in the child welfare system by eliminating technological barriers, broadening the discussion about data to new audiences, and focusing attention on meaningful outcomes.

The Data Portal was made possible through the generous sponsorship of a coalition of funders dedicated to improving outcomes for children and families involved in the Washington State child welfare system. These funders include The Stuart Foundation, The Thomas V. Giddens Jr. Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Casey Family Programs, and Ballmer Family Giving.

 

To try the Washington State Child Well-Being Data Portal, please visit:

www.partnersforourchildren.org/child-well-being

For questions, please contact:

Ben Berres, Strategy and Special Projects
206-221-0864
bjsb@uw.edu
 

Laurie Lippold joins POC as Public Policy Director
Published on May 16, 2012

POC is proud to announce Laurie Lippold as Director of Public Policy. Laurie is a longtime advocate for children in the state, working for nearly two decades with organizations that address foster care, child welfare and children’s health.

Partners for Our Children joins in newly formed Washington State Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence
Published on May 10, 2012

University of Washington School of Social work announces The Washington State Alliance for Child Welfare Excellence. “This comprehensive effort will, for the first time, generate a statewide road map for social work training and education,” said Eddie Uehara, dean of the UW School of Social Work. She added that it will also "leverage substantially more federal dollars for professional development and harness the deep expertise of Partners for Our Children, a School of Social Work-sponsored child welfare and policy analysis group."

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Long-Term Mentoring for At-Risk Children
Published on October 6, 2011

October 6, 2011: The New York Times online commentary section – The Opinionator – recently published an article on Friends of the Children, an organization that provides long-term mentoring for at-risk children. Quoted in the article is Mark Eddy, POC’s Research Director. Dr. Eddy is the lead investigator on a randomized trial of Friends of the Children’s work, the preliminary results of which have been presented at national conferences. Read the article here.

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