Annual Forum 2011
Over 300 researchers, educators, practitioners, university students, and local parents gathered at UTD for the Center for Children and Families' Second Annual Forum on September 22, 2011. Dr. Suniya Luthar of Teacher's College, Columbia University, a nationally and internationally renowned child development scholar, was the keynote speaker. Dr. Luthar's research involves vulnerability and resilience among various populations including youth in poverty and children in families affected by mental illness. Her recent work has focused on children in affluent communities and in particular substance use and anxiety in these communities.
The Second Annual Forum included morning events of a presentation by Dr. Luthar, panel discussion by faculty members from UTD, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas School of Public Health, and The University of Texas at Austin, and afternoon panel discussion by community educators and counselors who work with children, and an evening lecture by Dr. Luthar titled "Fostering Resilience: Who Tends the Caregivers? Who Mothers Mommy?"
The Forum was free and open to the public, funded by grants from the Timberlawn Psychiatric Research Foundation and the Meadows Foundation.
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Last Year's Forum 2010
