Symposium on Protecting Family Integrity

1401 N Charles St,Baltimore MD 21201

29 September, 2022

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CFCC’s 2022 Symposium focuses on some of the causes and consequences of family separation in our country. Please save the date for this important day-long conversation on an issue that has disproportionate effects on our most vulnerable children. The symposium’s multidisciplinary, interactive panels will focus on two critical challenges that can lead to the separation of children from their families—parental incarceration and interventions by child welfare authorities. Register now to join us for this free event to explore how we can apply insights from different disciplines to the challenges facing at-risk families in Baltimore and across the country to develop approaches that will help families and children stay together and thrive. Dorothy Roberts and Andrea James will offer a keynote conversation to kick off CFCC’s symposium on protecting family integrity. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania and an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. Her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world, will be on sale, and she will sign copies at the event. Andrea James is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the Founder of Families for Justice as Healing, author of Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration, a 2015 Soros Justice Fellow, and a recipient of the 2016 RFK Human Rights award.