Presentation of the 2009 Pro Humanitate Awards

(from left):  Leslie Tutty, PhD; Gillian Weaver-Dunlop, MSW, RSW;  Jill Duerr Berrick, PhD; Christine Walsh, PhD; Mark Chaffin, PhD; Judith Alpert, PhD; Bowen McBeath, PhD; Kendra Nixon, PhD; David Finkelhor, PhD;  Ronald Hughes, PhD, MScSA (Director of NARCCW);  and Viola Vaughan-Eden, PhD., LCSW (Pro Humanitate Judge)

JANUARY 2009 - The 2009 Pro Humanitate Awards were presented on January 29, 2009, at the 23rd Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment in San Diego, CA.  Awards were presented by Ronald C. Hughes, PhD., MScSA, the Director of the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare and Child Welfare Policy.  For more information on this year’s awards and the judges, click here. 

Child Welfare Training and System Development in Eastern Europe

DECEMBER 2006 - As a result of the break-up of the former Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of children and youth in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and other post-Soviet Nations are being cared for in large state-run institutions, or are homeless and living on the streets. IHS has been involved in helping to build professional and organizational capacity in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan to serve these children and youth since 2004.
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Field Guide to Child Welfare Online

Now, the entire text of the four volume "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is available in a searchable web-based format.
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