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Incarceration & Fatherhood Workshop
April 13 , 2007
290 Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Overview

This workshop will focus on issues of child support requirements, parenting programs, race/ethnic differences, social capital, juvenile fathers and the meanings of incarceration for fatherhood and citizenship. 

Open to interested Cornell faculty, staff, students and members of the Ithaca community by request.  If you would like to attend any or all part of the workshop, please contact Samantha Majic (sam232@cornell.edu), so that you can be included in the circulation of the agenda, workshop papers, and in lunch. 

Agenda

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Introduction
Remarks by David Harris, ISS Executive Director, Vice Provost of the Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology

8:45-10:30 Panel One: Citizenship and Child Support

Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod (Department of Government, Cornell University) and Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley (Department of Political Science, Vassar College)
Citizens behind Bars: Fatherhood and Incarceration
Discussant: Barry Maxwell, Cornell University

Pate, David ( Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, Department of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Milwauke)
Updated version of Welfare and Child Support Policy Knowledge among Parents of Children on W-2 in Dane County
Discussant: Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University

Falco, George, Rabideau, Monique, and Stack, Eileen (Commissioner’s Office of the NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance)
Title TBA
Discussant: Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University

--BREAK 10:30-11:00—

11:00- 1:00 Panel Two: Parenting Programs

Gosnell, Ken (National Fatherhood Initiative) & Schroeder, Sara (Indiana Department of Corrections)
The Reunification and Reconnection of Fathers and Families
Discussant: Samantha Majic, Cornell University

Mazza, Carl ( Lehman College of the City University of New York)
Crystal Lions: Incarcerated Fathers and Parenting Courses
Discussant: Mary Katzenstein, Cornell University

Uggen, Chris, Wakefield, Sara & Shannon, Sarah (University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work)
A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions
Discussant: Claire Kamp Dush, Cornell University

1:00-2:30 Lunch (146 Myron Taylor Hall)
Remarks by Liz Gaynes,
Executive Director of the Osborne Association, a 75 year old nonprofit organization in New York City that provides a wide range of educational, employment, treatment and family services to individuals affected by incarceration.

2:30- 4:30 Panel 3: Inside-Outside

Lerman, Amy (Department of Political Science, University of California Berkeley & the California Correctional Officer Survey Project)
The Parents Prisons Make: Effects of Incarceration on Social Capital
Discussant: Emily Owens, University of Maryland at College Park

Nurse, Ann (Department of Sociology, College of Wooster)
Shoes and Area Codes: An Analysis of Social Status in the Juvenile Prison
Discussant: Sharon Sassler, Cornell University

Swisher, Ray & Waller, Maureen (Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University)
Incarceration and Paternal Involvement among Unmarried White, African American and Latino Fathers
Discussant: Tom Hirschl, Cornell University

Accommodations and Travel

Hotel: Best Western, 1020 Ellis Hollow Road, Ithaca, New York, 14850-2808, (607) 272-6100

Workshop location: ISS Conference Room, 146 Myron Taylor Hall

Directions to the Institute for the Social Sciences

Visitor Parking Information


Maps (Including Cornell Campus Map, Parking Map and Ithaca Map

For More Information

Contact: Samantha Majic

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