“Until We Are Free: Racism, Child Welfare, and the Enduring Promise of Abolition”

This lecture will present evidence of the harms that result from family separations to make a case that the child welfare system is beyond reform. Rather, the solution to ending these harms is abolition of this system and a fundamental reimagining of the way society cares for children, families, and communities. Reception to follow.

Welcome/Intro

Sally Bachman, PhD, Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice

Introduction

Dorothy Roberts, JD

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania

Featured Speaker

Alan Dettlaff, BSW, MSW, PhD

Professor of Social Work; Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston