Media

• Forum with Michael Krasny: New California Democratic Party Chair"
  Thu, Apr 30, 2009
  Michael Krasny speaks with former California Senate President Pro-tem John Burton, who won the nomination of party chair at the Democratic Party's spring convention in Sacramento this past weekend.
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• 2009 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 2: "Too Big to Ignore: Youth Homelessness in California"
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  November 10, 2009, Sacramento
  Michele Byrnes (the John Burton Foundation) and Heather Dearing (California Coalition for Youth) present a policy brief to address youth homelessness in California within the next three years.

• 2009 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 1: "What Can Child Welfare Advocates Learn from the Environmentalism Movement?"
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  October 13, 2009, Sacramento
  Victoria Rome, Deputy California Advocacy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, former Legislative and Policy Coordinator, California Youth Connection”

• A Meeting with CWLA CEO and President Chris James Brown 
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  October 29, 2009, San Francisco
  Chris James Brown, CEO and President of CWLA, discusses the direction of child welfare on a national level.

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 1: "Downsizing Foster Care Through Prevention: Good Practice or Mission Drift?"
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  October 16, 2008, San Francisco
  Dr. Jill Duerr Berrick Professor, School of Social Work, University of California at Berkeley Co-Director, Center for Child and Youth Policy

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 2: "Same Youth, Disparate Resources: Developing a State Strategy to Serve System-Involved and Non-System Involved Youth"
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  November 7, 2008
  Sherilyn Adams, Executive Director, Larkin Street Youth Services

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 3: "Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System: Disproportionate Need or Systematic Bias?? "
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  November 20, 2008
  Researcher Emily Putnam-Hornstein, MSW, Center for Social Services Research, UC Berkeley

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 4:
  "Children of Incarcerated Parents: The Civil Rights Issue of the 21st Century? "
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  December 4, 2008
  Journalist Nell Bernstein, author of All Alone in the World, Children of Incarcerated Parents.
  

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 5: "Beyond the Bench XIX: The Issue of Youth who "Age Out" of Foster Care: New Developments and Continuing Challenges"
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  December 11, 2008
  Mark E. Courtney, Ph.D., Executive Director, Chair, University of Washington School of Social Work
  

• 2008 Policy Briefing Series Briefing Number 6: "Methamphetamine Use: Posing New Challenges to California's Child Welfare System"
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  January 15, 2009
  Dr. Wendy Wright, Co-Director of the Polinsky Institute, San Diego