Child Education, Health, and Welfare

简介（由申请人提供）：人类潜能与公共政策研究中心（CHPPP）计划于2004年至2006年每年春季（5月）举行三次系列会议，重点关注经济弱势背景下的儿童教育，健康和福利。本系列会议的主要目标是建立一个定期的途径，让多个社会和行为科学学科的有才华的学者可以聚集在一起，分享他们在儿童发展、家庭进程、贫困和公共政策等问题上的专业知识。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。这些学科的学者坚持认为，与贫困相关的并发症是对福祉的持续威胁，也是对低收入家庭及其子女取得积极成果的可能性的威胁。会议系列的更具体的目标是确定当前存在的模型，跨越社会和行为科学，以连贯地分析这些多重确定的过程。为实现这些目标，CHPPP系列会议将重点讨论贫困与儿童教育、卫生和福利背景下的三个具体政策主题，以此为基础，在每次会议上分享创新的、新兴的理论和研究。每一次会议都将包括社会和行为科学领域的高水平学术研究，特别关注2002年《联邦不让一个孩子掉队法》、即将出台的药物滥用和精神健康立法的重新授权以及1996年《个人责任和工作机会和解法》（PRWORA）等主题。该系列每一年的具体议程规划如下：第一年（2004年）——贫困和教育平等：《不让一个孩子掉队法》的发展、经济和政策观点；第2年（2005年）-贫困，累积风险和儿童福祉：通过国土安全部/SAMHSA计划和倡议满足“难以服务”家庭需求的发展，经济和政策观点；第三年（2006年）-贫困、父母就业和养育子女：从发展、经济和政策角度看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.