Foster Care: Issues and Approaches
Supported by funding from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration

January 14 , 2005
Stanford University Department of Psychiatry
401 Quarry Road, Rm. 2209

Hans Steiner, M.D.
Co-Director, Center for Psychiatry and the Law
Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University

Brenda Kraus Eheart, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Generations of Hope
Adjunct Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Niranjan S. Karnik, M.D., Ph.D.
PGY-3 Resident in Psychiatry
Stanford University

Martha Bauman Power, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Development and Family Resources
Child Life Program Director
Illinois State University

Martha Shirk
Journalist and Author of "On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System"

Saul Wasserman, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pyschiatry, Stanford University

1:30-1:45 p.m. Introduction

1:45- 2:15 p.m. Overview of Issues Facing Foster Children

2:15-3:15 p.m. Generations of Hope: An Intergenerational Community-Based Model of Care for Foster Children

3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:30- 4:15 p.m. Emancipated Foster Youth: On Their Own, Ready or Not

4:15- 4:45 p.m. Mental Health Needs of Foster Children

4:45- 5:00 p.m. Discussion and Conclusion