Center on Children & Family Past Events
2012 Events
February 1, 2012
Engendering Citizenship
A talk by Sandra Park, Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project.
February 1, 2012 at noon
Room 180 Holland Hall
Reception immediately following
2010 Events
October 27, 2010
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, LQC Lamar Professor of Law and Co Director, Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Emory Law
Juvenile Justice Project: Lecture
September 22, 2010
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Collaborative Law Training
Innovative Solutions for Our Future
June 9 & 10, 2010
Pauline H. Tesler, collaborative and family law expert and co-author of Collaborative Divorce, will lead this two-day intermediate training highlighting the lawyer’s role in education, client screening and interdisciplinary team participation.
NIA Mentoring Summit
2010 Youth Summit
April 24, 2010
The University of Florida Levin College of Law Center on Children & Families Youth Summit is designed to engage high school students in discussion about matters concerning law and policy and how each affects them.
2010 Juvenile Justice Conference Juvenile Justice: Passages, Prevention, and Intervention
Feb. 19 & 20, 2010
Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, moving to deeper problems and even to the adult criminal justice system. This conference is focused on (1) avoiding this connection, whether brief or deep, and (2) intervening, at the initial contact between children and the system, in a way that most effectively prevents further involvement with the juvenile justice system, addresses the problems or mistakes that a child has made, and fosters their success as children and adults.
2009 Events
Collaborative Law Training Innovative Solutions for Our Future
August 21 – August 22, 2009
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Gainesville, FL
2009 Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law Sanford Katz
October 14, 2009
Room 270 Holland Hall, at Noon.
“The Family Law World of Walter O. Weyrauch”
2008 – 09 Speaker Series
Weyrauch Distinguished Lecturein Family Law – Naomi Cahn, March 23: “Family Classes”
Gary Melton, Nov. 24: “What’s Wrong with U.S. Child Protection Policy, and How Might it be Fixed?”
2008 Events
2007 – 08 Speaker Series: ”Families in Transition”
Angela Mae Kupenda, Feb. 19: Learning from Family Law to Address America’s Family-Like Race Dysfunction
Weyrauch Distinguished Family Law Lecture – Stephanie Coontz, March 26: Courting Disaster? The Historical Revolution in Marriage
2007 Events
2006 – 07 Speaker Series
During 2006-07 academic year, in lieu of a conference, the Center is hosting distinguished speakers in the area of family law and children’s law. These lectures are open to the law school community and to the public and free of charge.
Inaugural Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law
2006 Events
Fifth Annual Conference
Bridges to Excellence: Building Sustaining Multidisciplinary Collaboratives for Children
March 31 – April 1, 2006
Co-hosted by First Star, this conference the first in a series of conferences to be held during the next year to establish best practices in multidisciplinary collaboration.
2005 Events
Fourth Annual Conference
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: What is it and how do we do it?
March 11, 2005
An invitational roundtable gathering UF scholars from different disciplines to assist in building a model for multidisciplinary collaboration at the Center on Children and Families. This project is intended to lay the groundwork for designing UF’s new First Star Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence (MCE). The MCE are a project spearheaded by First Star, a Washington DC based non profit dedicated to children’s welfare. The MCEs will be based in three locations: the College of Law’s Center on Children and Families, Columbia Law School and University of San Diego Law School. The MCEs will bring academics with diverse research and practice background together to educate professionals working with abused, neglected and impoverished children.
2004 Events
Third Annual Conference
Beyond Brown – Children, Race & Education
March 25 – 27, 2004
Co-hosted by the Center on Race and Race Relations and the Center on Children and Families, this conference marked the 50th anniversary of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court held that segregated schools violated the Constitution. Speakers explored the history and legacy of the decision and its implications for modern children and modern educational policy.
2003 Events
Second Annual Conference
Children, Culture & Violence – an Interdisciplinary Conference
March 20 – 22, 2003
An interdisciplinary conference (co-hosted by the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Center on Children and Families at Levin College of Law) for academics, professionals and citizens committed to the study, treatment and prevention of violence in the lives of children and youth. This interdisciplinary conference was supported by SHANDS Healthcare, the Institute for Child Health Policy, the Child Policy Research Institute, and the Harn Museum of Art — all at University of Florida. The conference featured many nationally known speakers, including keynoters (in order of appearance) Geoffrey Canada, president of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in New York City; Ntozake Shange, poet and novelist; and Hon. Harry Lee Anstead, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Workshop on Unified Family Courts
October 11, 2003
A day-long workshop on the roll of law schools in the development of the Unified Family Court was held at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Participants included a diverse group of judges as well as faculty from UF, FSU, Miami, Nova Southeastern, St. Thomas, Barry and Florida Coastal.
2001 Events
First Annual Conference
Defending Childhood: Developing a Child-Centered
December 7 – 8, 2001
The First Annual Conference of the Center was held at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center of University of Florida.
The conference examined the problems facing children and youth and explored evidence-based solutions. Scholars and practitioners from many fields, including law, medicine, sociology, history, psychology and education were brought together to share perspectives about critical issues facing children and youth and to develop a research, practice and policy agenda for the coming decade. Topics included child welfare, family policy, juvenile justice, sexism and racism, children’s educational and medical issues, and the ethical treatment of children and youth. Papers from the conference were published in the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy.