The 2010 Katherine and Arthur Sehlin Lecture

Details

Date: November 9, 2010
Location: U of MN Hubert Humphrey Center
View “Save the Date” for more information

View Agenda
The Effects of Volunteering on the Physical and Mental Health of Older People—Terry Y. Lum & Elizabeth Lightfoot. (2005). Research on Aging, 27, 31-55. (PDF)

Event Overview

Much work has been done on engaging grandparents and older relatives in preventing and intervening in child abuse and neglect, but little has been explored around the opportunity of engaging non-relative seniors/retirees in meeting the needs of families in the child welfare system. This lecture is intended to challenge leaders and policy makers in the field of child welfare to re-examine how we think about service delivery, community engagement and the intersection of child welfare and retirement from a systemic perspective.

 WATCH: Intergenerational Engagement in the Child Welfare System: Implications and Opportunities for Policy and System Reform

Presenters

Dr. David Hopping

Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Executive Managing Director, Generations of Hope Development Corporation (GHDC)

GHDC envisions enhancing and extending the lives of vulnerable populations by tapping the transformative power of intergenerational community living. GHDC is currently helping to facilitate the development of Generations of Hope Communities–intentional, intergenerational communities organized around a social challenge that utilize older adults as volunteers. These communities are based on the success of Hope Meadows in Rantoul, Illinois. Residents of Hope Meadows belong to one of three groups often at risk of being marginalized in American society — kids caught in the child welfare system, families that adopt children with special behavioral and emotional needs, and retirees who are seeking continued purpose in their daily lives.

 PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)

Panelists

Helen Kivnick

Professor, School of Social Work

Susan Ault

Senior Director, Casey Family Programs

Senator John Marty

Minnesota Senate

The Katherine and Arthur Sehlin Lectures are supported by a fund established in 1986 by the Sehlin family to reflect the values expressed by Katherine and Arthur Sehlin in their professional and volunteer activities. The yearly lecture alternates between the Department of Civil Engineering and the School of Social Work.

This event was also developed under the auspices of: Federal Title IV-E Funding, Minnesota Department of Human Services (Contract #439481), and the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the School of Social Work in the College of Education and Human Development.