Child Education, Health, and Welfare

描述（由申请人提供）：人类潜力和公共政策中心（CHPPP）计划从2004年到2006年每年春季（5月）举行一系列的三次会议，重点是经济不利条件下的儿童教育、健康和福利。该系列会议的主要目标是建立一个定期的手段，使多个社会和行为科学学科的优秀学者可以召集在一起，分享他们对儿童发展，家庭过程，贫困和公共政策相关问题的专业知识。CHPPP的多学科方法以社会和行为科学为基础，以经济学，发展心理学和社会学为核心代表。这些学科的学者们一直认为，与贫困相关的问题的共同发病率是对低收入家庭及其子女福祉和积极成果可能性的持续威胁。会议系列的更具体的目标是确定当前现有的模型，在社会和行为科学，连贯地分析这些多重决定的过程。为了实现这些目标，CHPPP系列会议将重点关注贫困和儿童教育，健康和福利背景下的三个具体政策主题，作为每次会议上分享的创新，新兴理论和研究的基础。这些会议将包括高素质的奖学金在社会和行为科学，特别侧重于2002年的联邦没有孩子掉队法案的主题，即将重新授权的药物滥用和精神卫生立法，和个人责任和工作机会和解法（PRWORA）1996年。该系列活动每年的具体议程计划如下：第一年（2004年）-贫困和教育平等：从发展、经济和政策角度看联邦《不让一个孩子掉队法》;第二年（2005年）-贫困、累积风险和儿童福利：从发展、经济和政策角度出发，通过国土安全部/南部非洲住房和卫生部的方案和倡议，满足“难以得到服务”的家庭的需求;和第3年（2006年）-贫困，父母就业和养育子女：发展，经济和政策的角度对TANF重新授权，10年后。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP) plans to hold a series of three conferences each spring (May) from 2004 through 2006, focusing on child education, health and welfare in the context of economic disadvantage. The primary objective of this conference series is to establish a regular means by which talented scholars in multiple social and behavioral science disciplines may convene to share their expertise on issues related to child development, family processes, poverty and public policy. The CHPPP's multidisciplinary approach is anchored in the social and behavioral sciences, with core representation in economics, developmental psychology, and sociology. Scholars within these disciplines persistently identify co-morbidity of problems associated with poverty as a persistent threat to well-being and to the likelihood of positive outcomes for low-income families and their children. The more specific goals of the conference series are to identify currently existing models, across the social and behavioral sciences, for coherently analyzing these multiply determined processes. To accomplish these goals, the CHPPP conference series will focus on three specific policy topics within the context of poverty and child education, health, and welfare as a means of grounding innovative, emerging theory and research that will be shared at each meeting. Each of these conferences will include high-caliber scholarship within the social and behavioral sciences, focusing specifically on the topics of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, the upcoming reauthorization of substance abuse and mental health legislation, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. The specific agenda for each year of the series is planned as follows: Year 1 (2004) - Poverty and educational equality: Developmental, Economic and Policy Perspectives on the Federal No Child Left Behind Act; Year 2 (2005) - Poverty, cumulative risk, and child well-being: Developmental, Economic and Policy perspectives on meeting the needs of "hard to serve" families through DHS/SAMHSA programs and initiatives; and Year 3 (2006) - Poverty, parental employment and parenting: Developmental, Economic, and Policy perspectives on TANF reauthorization, 10 years later.