Members of the Missouri Department of Social Services’ Children’s Division (CD) will gather Dec. 1 with child welfare researchers from around the state to plan future research collaborations.
The conference in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge, hosted by the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, will also provide an overview of ongoing research involving the Children’s Division and the ways it makes use of the research to improve the welfare of Missourians.
The 9-11 a.m. session of the conference is free and open to the public and will feature a presentation by Paula Neese, interim director of the Children’s Division, and a keynote address by Mark Testa, Ph.D., director of the Children and Family Research Center at the University of Illinois.
Neese will provide an overview of the Children’s Division’s strengths, priorities and knowledge needs, as well as the current state of child welfare in Missouri. Testa’s lecture will focus on the current state of child welfare research nationally.
For more information, go online to gwbweb.wustl.edu/cmhsr/seminars.html or call Sally Haywood, director of administration at the Center for Mental Health Services Research, at 935-5741.