Improving Child Well-Being: What Cities Can Do

Date: 

Thursday, August 5, 2010, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

79 JFK Street, Taubman Building, 5th Floor

two childrenAbout this Policy Impact Forum
This important policy-impact forum will examine innovations in child well-being policies and programs. Special emphasis will be placed on increasing municipal responses to the needs of young children and their families. Panel discussions will include:

  • Neighborhood-based Strategies to Strengthen Families

  • Creating a Community of Engaged Youth

  • Innovative Ways for Communities Facing Budget Challenges to Support Children and Families

This forum is organized by the Ash Center and the Wiener Center with sponsorship from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

To Attend
Space is limited. Kindly RSVP to innovations@harvard.edu

Sponsors
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, whose primary mission is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation advances excellence in governance and strengthens democratic institutions worldwide. The Center fosters creative and effective government problem solving and serves as a catalyst for addressing many of the most pressing needs of the world’s citizens.

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy draws on the worlds of scholarship, policy and practice to address public policy questions about: health policy, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, poverty, immigration, and labor.