LECTURE SERIES ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN BRINGS DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS TO BRYN MAWR

A series of lectures about social issues affecting children will bring several distinguished speakers to the College this spring. The G. Mildred and A. Foster Scott Lecture Series, organized by the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research's Center for Child and Family Well-Being, began last September. It will continue on Thursday, Feb. 19, with a lecture by noted family therapist and author Rita DeMaria, Ph.D. '98.

The Scott Lecture Series features speakers from a range of disciplines and will include the keynote address for the Center's conference on the effects of violence on children, families and communities on March 26. Lectures for this series will be held at both the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research campus, at 300 Airdale Road, and at the Bryn Mawr College main campus. All events in the series are open to the public and, with the exception of the conference keynote lecture, free. Refreshments will be served.

The Center for Child and Family Well-Being's mission is to foster an interdisciplinary focus on issues and challenges facing children and families. The center works to educate students of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research to support children and families in all of their various forms and contexts. The Scott Lecture Series is funded by a grant from the G. Mildred and A. Foster Scott Charitable Foundation, which provides philanthropic support to specific education and service foundations with Quaker affiliations and to other causes that were important to the Scott family.

The schedule is as follows:

• Thursday, Feb. 19
  Lecturer: Rita DeMaria, Ph.D. '98, Council for Relationships, Philadelphia
  Topic: "Breaking Patterns of Intergenerational Family Violence"
  Location: Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
  Time: 7 p.m.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 2
  Lecturer: Leslie Rescorla, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Child Study Institute, Bryn Mawr College
  Topic: "Empirically Based Assessment of Aggressive and Rule-Breaking Behavior in Children, Adolescents, and Adults"
  Location: Room 224, Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College
  Time: 4:15 p.m.
  
  
• Friday, March 26
  Keynote address of the Center's annual conference
  Lecturer: James P. Comer, M.D., Professor of Child Psychiatry; Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center
  Topic: "The Effects of Violence on Children, Families, and Communities"
  Location: Thomas Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College
  Time: 9 a.m.
  **Conference registration is required for this event**
  
  
• Thursday, April 22
  Lecturer: Ann Smolen, '90, M.S.S. '00, Psychotherapist, Project Rainbow
  Topic: "Children Born into Loss: Some Developmental Consequences of Homelessness"
  Location: Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
  Time: 5:30 p.m.

To allow communication of scheduling changes or weather cancellations, please register for any event by e-mail at sw-rsvp@brynmawr.edu (please specify the event/s you will attend). For more information about any of these events, please go to www.brynmawr.edu/socialwork/.

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