Child Education, Health, and Welfare

描述(由申请人提供)：人力潜力与公共政策中心(CHPPP)计划从2004年至2006年每年春季(5月)举办一系列三次会议，重点讨论经济不利背景下的儿童教育、健康和福利问题。这一系列会议的主要目标是建立一种定期的方式，通过这种方式，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，就与儿童发展、家庭进程、贫困和公共政策有关的问题分享他们的专业知识。CHPPP的多学科方法以社会和行为科学为基础，其核心代表是经济学、发展心理学和社会学。这些学科的学者始终认为，与贫穷有关的问题并存是对低收入家庭及其子女福祉和取得积极成果的可能性的持续威胁。会议系列的更具体目标是确定目前存在的跨社会和行为科学的模型，以连贯地分析这些多重确定的过程。为了实现这些目标，CHPPP系列会议将在贫困和儿童教育、健康和福利的背景下集中讨论三个具体的政策主题，以此作为在每次会议上分享的创新、新兴理论和研究的基础。每一次会议都将包括社会科学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案》、即将重新授权的药物滥用和精神健康立法以及1996年的《个人责任和工作机会协调法案》(PRWORA)的主题。该系列每年的具体议程计划如下：第1年(2004年)--贫困与教育平等：联邦《不让一个孩子掉队法》的发展、经济和政策视角；第2年(2005年)--贫困、累积风险和儿童福祉：通过国土安全部/SAMHSA方案和倡议满足“难以服务”家庭的需求的发展、经济和政策视角；第3年(2006年)--贫困、父母就业和育儿：10年后TANF重新授权的发展、经济和政策视角。

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.