The Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is proud to host this interdisciplinary, day-long conference on psychological trauma among children—especially low-income school children—and their interaction with the chief institution in their lives outside the home: schools.
Both panelists and audience members have been recruited for their outstanding work in fields related to children at-risk for trauma exposure. Our speakers are leading researchers from diverse disciplines who will share their existing or ongoing work, in a format that will facilitate substantive interaction with knowledgeable audience members.
Both panelists and audience members have been recruited for their outstanding work in fields related to children at-risk for trauma exposure. Our speakers are leading researchers from diverse disciplines who will share their existing or ongoing work, in a format that will facilitate substantive interaction with knowledgeable audience members.
Our lunchtime Keynote will be delivered by Prof. Susan F. Cole, Director of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School, and a pioneer in the field of trauma-sensitive schools.
Please join us for an incredible day of cross-disciplinary conversation and collaboration on psychological trauma among children and their interaction with schools! Please see below for more information on speakers, panels, and to RSVP.
Questions, please contact tjm305@law.rutgers.edu
Speakers
KEYNOTE: Susan F. Cole
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, Harvard Law School
Prof. Cole is Director of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative at Harvard Law School, Education Law Clinic Director at Harvard, and a trailblazer in the field of trauma sensitive schools.
Esther Canty-Barnes
Education and Health Law Clinic, Rutgers School of Law
Prof. Canty-Barnes is the Director of the Education and Health Law Clinic at Rutgers School of Law, and represents indigent parents and caregivers of disabled children in need of educational services.
Dr. Elizabeth Dutro
University of Colorado-Boulder School of Education
Dr. Dutro is an education researcher who specializes in literacy and equity in the classroom. Her current work takes a multidisciplinary trauma studies perpective to investigate the role and consequence of school responses to students’ lives.
Dr. Susan Esquilin
Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Susan Esquilin is a licensed psychologist who developed the innovative training for psychologists and psychiatrists to function as expert evaluators in child protection matters, in conjunction with the Rutgers School of Social Work and the NJ Department of Children and Families.
Dr. Lovie Jackson Foster
University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
Dr. Foster is a multidisciplinary researcher in the field of mental health disparities, and an innovator in the field of collaborative care models. Her current work centers on health information technology for screening trauma in urban youth.
Dr. Jennifer Jones
Licensed Psychologist, National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network
Dr. Jennifer Jones is the Associate Director of Mental Health for the Adolescent and Young Adult populations at Riker’s Island, and a national trainer for Juvenile Probation and Correction Officers in trauma sensitivity.
Dr. Royce Lee
University of Chicago, Department of Psychiatry and Behaviroal Neuroscience
Dr. Lee is a leading researcher in the area of neuroendocrinology, trauma, and the life course. His work specializes in the effects of early life trauma on the neurobiology of emotion.
Solangel Maldonado
Seton Hall Law School
Prof. Maldonado is the Joseph M. Lynch Professor of Law at Seton Hall, and is a widely published scholar in the fields of family law, feminist legal theory, race and the law, and international and comparative family law.
Dr. Alexandra Margevich
Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME)
Dr. Margevich is the Psychology Researcher for Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME)'s Trauma, Schools, and Poverty Project.
Trevor Melton
New Jersey Department of Education
Prof. Melton is the Governor’s appointed head of the NJ Department of Education’s Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Committee, where he collaborates with numerous state actors to address the ways that schools respond to trauma in children.
Dr. Kelly Moore
Rutgers’ Children’s Center for Resilience and Trauma Recovery
Dr. Moore is a clinical psychologist and the Director of the Director of the Rutgers’ Children’s Center for Resilience and Trauma Recovery which trains mental health providers in the assessment and treatment of trauma in young children.
Mark Rosenbaum
Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law, University of California-Irvine Law School
Prof. Rosenbaum is Director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law, a professor at the University of California-Irvine Law School, and one of the nation's preeminent civil rights attorneys in the area public schooling.
Dr. Natalie Slopen
University of Maryland School of Public Health
Dr. Slopen is a social epidemiologist with a research focus on the psychological and biological mechanisms through which childhood experiences are embedded to increase risk for later chronic diseases.
David Troutt
Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), Rutgers School of Law
Prof. Troutt serves at Rutgers as a Professor of Law, Justice John J. Francis Scholar, and Founding Director of the Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). His publicly acclaimed work centers on the intersections of race, class, and place.
Schedule
8:30am- 9am
Registration + Breakfast
9am-9:30am
Opening Remarks by Rutgers Newark Chancellor Dr. Nancy Cantor
9:30am – 11am
Panel 1: "The Making of Trauma: Definitions and Genealogies"
Dr. Royce Lee, Dr. Natalie Slopen, Dr. Susan Cohen Esquilin, Dr. Alexandra Margevich (moderator)
11am – 12:30pm
Panel 2: “Trauma in Schools: The Politics of Labeling"
Dr. Elizabeth Dutro, Prof. Trevor Melton, Dr. Kelly Moore, Prof. Esther Canty-Barnes (moderator)
12:45pm-1:45pm
Lunch + Keynote Address: "Trauma Sensitive Schools" by Prof. Susan F. Cole
2pm-3:30pm
Panel 3: "How Systems Respond to Systemic Trauma"
Dr. Lovie Jackson Foster, Dr. Jennifer Jones, Prof. Mark Rosenbaum, Prof. Solangel Maldonado (moderator)
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Presentation + Discussion: "In the Name of Resiliency: Intervention v. Prevention"
Prof. David D. Troutt, Director of CLiME
4:30pm– 5pm
Closing Remarks by Rutgers School of Criminal Justice Vice Chancellor Dr. Bonita Veysey
Wine Reception
Rutgers Law School
123 Washington Street, Newark NJ
The CLiME conference 'Psychological Trauma and Schools: How Systems Respond to the Traumas of Young Lives' will take place in Room 125 of Rutgers Law School, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Newark.
About CLiME
Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is committed to studying the role of law and policy in encouraging or inhibiting opportunity based on place. This conference is a part of our Trauma, Schools and Poverty Project (TSP), a multi-year effort to understand the relationships between structural inequality and the pervasive experience of complex psychological stress and trauma.
