UML Foster Care Awareness Day

 

Playtime and Foster Care

 

May 7, 2009  •  O’Leary 222

 

Schedule

 

1:00          Posters, information, & conversation

 

2:00          Welcome & Introduction to Foster Care

                    Doreen Arcus, Assoc. Prof. Psychology, UMass Lowell

               

2:15          Keynote Presentation: 

                The Importance of Play for Children in Foster Care

 

3:00          Break

                  

3:15          Foster Care Alumni Perspectives

                   Eliza Wagner

                   Speak Out Team, Mass Families for Kids

 

3:45          Parent Perspectives

                                

4:15          Child Welfare Perspectives

 

4:45          Closing  & Shoe presentation

 

 

O’Leary Library, UML South, 61 Wilder St., Lowell, MA 01854.

All talks are free and open to the public.

Donations of new children’s shoes are gratefully accepted.

http://faculty.uml.edu/darcus/FCAD