BOCYF Projects

Regional Journalists' Seminars

The Board on Children, Youth, and Families regularly holds regional journalists' seminars that provide an opportunity for the media to hear on-the-record presentations on pertinent child and family policy issues.

The last seminar took place in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 11-12, 2000, with funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This seminar brought area journalists together with researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. For information about past seminars, see below.

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1998 Seminar | 1997 Seminar | 1996 Seminar

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1998 Seminar, Harvard University (April 1998)

The Board on Children, Youth, and Families held a seminar on child and family policy issues for New England journalists in cosponsorship with Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Topics addressed at the seminar included child labor, welfare reform, health of immigrant children and families, and family violence. Speakers included Washington Post reporter Barbara Vobejda, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, and others.

1997 Seminar, University of Texas at Austin (April 1997)

The Board on Children, Youth, and Families held a seminar on child and family policy issues for Texas journalists in cosponsorship with the University of Texas at Austin's College of Communication. The seminar, "Enhancing Media Coverage of Children, Youth, and Families," was held April 14-15 at the University of Texas in Austin. Speakers included policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and journalists, who addressed such issues as the health and welfare of immigrant children and families, the challenges associated with educating language-minority children, violence in families, and adolescents at risk.

1996 Seminar, Northwestern University (April 1996)

The first seminar, "Putting Children and Families on the Agenda: Enhancing Media Coverage of Policy and Research," was cosponsored with Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University in April 1996. Speakers included researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and journalists, who addressed welfare reform, the role of child care in low-income families' efforts to attain economic self-sufficiency, unintended (including teenage) pregnancy, and family and economic support in the context of fatherhood. Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and former Wall Street Journal reporter, gave the keynote presentation.