No Way to Treat a Child Series: 

Session 2: How Do Family Courts Determine Child Maltreatment and Decide on Foster Care?

October 11, 2022   Noon - 1:00 PM

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No Way to Treat a Child Series 

These sessions will be interactive, so be ready to bring your own questions!

Featured Speaker   Ronald Richter
CEO and Executive Director of JCCA

Richter is the CEO and executive director of JCCA. For three decades, Mr. Richter has worked to create a more just child and family services system by placing the utmost value on the wellbeing of each child and family. As JCCA’s CEO, Richter has expanded the agency’s academic enrichment services and helped the organization become a premier provider of support services for children with complex trauma, chronic illness, or severe emotional disturbance.

Richter is a former New York City Family Court judge, former Commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), and former attorney with The Legal Aid Society. During his time leading ACS, Richter spearheaded a landmark shift in child welfare evidence-based practices geared towards helping parents and children avoid foster care placement, heal from past traumas, and reduce time spent in the system. He currently serves on the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, as a Board Member of Child Trends, the Human Services Council, the NYS Coalition of Children’s Behavioral Health, Chelsea Day School, and is a member of the Child Welfare League of America’s National Commission for Policy and Practice.

In this four-part webinar series, policy researcher and writer, Naomi Schaefer Riley, will interview leading practitioners and policymakers in the fields of youth services and Foster Care to help us better understand the challenges and opportunities in these crucial services.

Each of these webinars will be based on Riley's research for her latest book, No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Destroying Young Lives.

https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/events/2022/no-way-to-treat-a-child-series.htm