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Home / Research Programs / Overview / Child Advocacy Program / Art of Social Change
Art of Social Change: Readings
Fall 2013
Elizabeth Bartholet's NOBODY'S CHILDREN: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative (Beacon Press 1999) [hereafter Nobody's Children] will serve as the course text together with additional course materials. As soon as the additional materials are ready, we will post them below. You will be able to simply click on the relevant Assignment Packet and download the PDF file.
| Date | Topic | Readings |
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| Sept 12 | Course Overview |
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| Sept 19 | Treating Youth Violence as a Disease: Sweetest Land Rough-Cut Film Screening | |
| Sept 26 | Kids for Cash, One of the Worst Judicial Scandals in American History: Efforts to Uncover the Truth, Provide Relief for Victims, & Prevent Future Failures | |
| Oct 3 | Use & Misuse of Social Science Evidence in Child Welfare | |
| Oct 10 | Substance Abuse and Child Maltreatment: The Family Drug Court Model |
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| Oct 17 | International Adoption: The Case for Change |
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| Oct 24 | The Campaign to End Childhood Hunger in America: Share Our Strength's Strategy & The Role of One of the Largest Corporate Foundations in America |
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| Oct 31 | We Shall Not Forsake You Haiti: How to Keep Attention on the Children of Haiti when the Spotlight Fades |
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| Nov 7 | TBA |
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| Nov. 14 | Educational Inequality in America: The Case for Integrating Our Schools |
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| Nov 21 | Bringing Social Enterprise into the Schoolhouse |
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| Dec 5 | A New Paradigm for Understanding Charity and Social Movements |
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