Click below for video recordings of CAP’s course, “Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice,” offered in spring 2018. Please note that some portions of particular videos have been edited.
Week 2: Early Childhood Adversity and Its Life-Long Impact on Brain and Behavioral Development, February 1, 2018
Guest Lecturer:
Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Education, Harvard University; Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital
Claudia Postelnicescu, Claudia M. Postelnicescu Law Office, Bucharest, Romania
Week 3: Child Welfare: Foster Care System Reform, February 8, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
Deborah Dentler, Attorney, Law Office of Deborah Dentler
Garrett Therolf, Senior Investigative Reporter, University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program and Common Sense Media
Mark Hamlin, HLS ’16, Associate Attorney, Baker Botts LLP
Week 5: Child Welfare: The Intersection of Child Maltreatment and Parental Substance Abuse, February 22, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
The Hon. Jeri Cohen, 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, FL
Frank Vandervort, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Week 6: Education: Integration and other Strategies to Improve Disadvantaged Schools, March 1, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
Dr. Michael Hinojosa, Superintendent of Schools, Dallas Independent School District
Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
Week 7: Education: Strategies to Protect and Enhance Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth Populations, March 8, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
Matt Cregor, Education Project Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice
Eliza Byard, Executive Director, GLSEN
Week 8: Education: Systemic Reform Litigation, Policy Advocacy, and Community Organizing, March 22, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
John Affeldt, Managing Attorney and Education Program Director, Public Advocates Inc.
Saa’un Bell, Strategy Director, Californians for Justice
Week 10: Juvenile Justice: A Successful Litigation Campaign to Eliminate the Juvenile Death Penalty and Life Without Parole, April 5, 2018
Guest Lecturer:
Marsha Levick, Co-Founder, Deputy Director, and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center
Week 12: Juvenile Justice: Working from the Inside to Achieve Reform, April 19, 2018
Guest Lecturers:
Tim Decker, Director, Missouri Children’s Division and former Director of Missouri’s Department of Youth Services
Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work