2006 Conference
 PROTECTING CHILDREN'S NEED FOR NURTURANCE
Proven Strategies and New Ideas
Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25
Knight Law Center
Eugene, Oregon
Developing and maintaining relationships with caring, nurturing adults is essential to the healthy development of children, but laws and policies often act to undermine these relationships. This conference brought together policymakers, lawyers, and academics to examine existing laws and explore new approaches that can surmount barriers between children and their caregivers.
Keynote Address: Healing the Child in Juvenile Court: Using an Infant Mental Health Approach
Dr. Joy Osofsky
Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Public Health, Head of the Division of Pediatric Mental Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and President, Zero to Three
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Panel: Multiple Parenthood - Who Says a Child Can Have Only One Mother and Only One Father?
How Many Parents Should a Child Have? What Louisiana and California Have Figured Out That the Rest of the Country Hasn't.
June Carbone
Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
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Multiple Fathers
Nancy E. Dowd
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Children and Families
Levin College of Law, University of Florida
This article will be published as Multiple Fathers/Multiple Parents, - Journal of Law & Family Studies - (2007)
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My Two Dads: Disaggregating Biological and Social Paternity
Melanie B. Jacobs
Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
This article was published at 38 Arizona State Law Journal 809 (2006)
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Panel: Parenting After the Parents Have Split Up
Supervised Access: In the Best Interest of the Child?
Elizabeth Barker Brandt
James E. Rogers Distinguished Professor, University of Idaho College of Law
This article will be published as Concerns at the Margins of Supervised Access to Children, - Journal of Law & Family Studies - (2007)
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Promoting Dual Parenting: Who Can Family Law Achieve?
Marsha Garrison
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
This article will be published as Promoting Cooperative Parenting: Programs and Prospects, - Journal of Law & Family Studies - (2007)
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Supporting Nurturing Fathers
Nancy E. Dowd
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Children and Families
Levin College of Law, University of Florida
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Panel: Comprehensive Reform of the Child Welfare System
 The Orphaning of Underprivileged Children: America's Failed Child Welfare Law & Policy
Deborah Paruch
Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
This article was published at 8 Journal of Law & Family Studies 119 (2006)
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What Goldilocks Can Teach Us About Welfare Law Reform
Kent Markus
Associate Professor of Law and Director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy, Capital University Law School
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Unintended Implications of Child Welfare Reform for Texas Foster Children's Mental Health
Lynda E. Frost
Associate Director for Mental Health Policy and Law, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin
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Kelly J. Gober
Mental Health Services Research and Policy Fellow, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin
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Panel: Noncustodial Parents in Juvenile Court
Out of State and Out of Luck: The Treatment of Non-Offending Parents Under the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
Vivek S. Sankaran
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Child Advocacy Law Clinic
This article was published at 25 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 63 (2006)
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Missing Fathers in Dependency Cases: Of Parents' Rights and Children's Interests
Leslie J. Harris
Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor and Director of the Oregon Child Advocacy Project, University of Oregon School of Law
This paper will be published as Involving Nonresident Fathers in Dependency Cases: New Efforts, New Problems, New Solutions, - Journal of Law & Family Studies - (2007)
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Presentation: Policies Supporting Working Families Having Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Transnational Comparison
Eileen M. Brennan
Associate Dean, Professor of Social Work, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Work-Life Integration Project, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, Portland State University
This paper will be published as Brennan, Eileen M., & Marsh, P., Chapter 10: The Policy Context, in Supporting Families of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Achieving Work-Life Integration in the Community (in press, J. R. Rosenzweig & E. M. Brennan eds, Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing).
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