The Children’s Studies Center

 

Brooklyn College of The City University of New York    

The Children’s Studies Program and Center,

in collaboration with the Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Diversity,  the Department of Africana Studies,  the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies, E.R.I.S.- A Black Male Initiative,  the Department of Psychology, the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies,  the Department of Sociology, the Student Affairs Civic Engagement Committee,  the Television Center,  the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for Humanities and the Department of Women’s Studies

 

The Children’s Studies Inaugural Child Policy Forum of New York:

THE RIGHT OF EVERY CHILD

Legislation for an Independent Office of the Child Advocate in New York

 

 

 

 

Assemblywoman Barbara M. Clark and Senator Martin J. Golden will talk about the need for an independent Office of the Child Advocate in New York through the introduction of their legislation for such an office in the New York State (NYS) Assembly and the NYS Senate.  Invited participants also include the Honorable Betsy Gotbaum, Public Advocate for the City of New York; Senator Carl Kruger, Chair of Social Services, Children and Families in the NYS Senate, and Assembly Member William Scarborough, Chair of the Standing Committee on Children and Families in the NYS Assembly.  Opening remarks will be made by Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York, Mr. Jay Hershenson.   Honorable Michael A. Corriero, presiding judge of Manhattan’s Youth Part of the New York Supreme Court will be moderator.

 

The inaugural Children’s Studies Child Policy Forum of New York is a continuation and expansion of the policy research initiative that began with the Carnegie Corporation funded policy symposium, “Children and the Law in New York” held on March 11, 2004.  The main goal of the symposium was to explore the idea of the establishment of an independent Office of the Child Advocate for New York.  Since that time, Children’s Studies has continued to work with legislative offices and children and youth related organizations, to provide a child-centered and human rights perspective to the major issues of child welfare.  This includes the various systems relating to education, health and mental health, juvenile justice/criminal justice, many of which contain a majority of children and youth from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

9:30 a.m. – 12 noon

Occidental/Oriental Lounge      

Brooklyn College Student Center,  East 27th Street and Campus Road

For information:  (718) 951-3192

 

Funding provided by the CUNY Diversity Projects Grant. 

Refreshments provided by the Barnes & Noble Student Affairs Fund

 and the Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Diversity