CHILD-CENTERED, VERTICALLY STRUCTURED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY |
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| Authors: | Annie G Steinberg Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Alyssa Burrell Cowan |
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| Institution: | Annie G. Steinberg, M.D., is assistant professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine;codirector of the Center for Children's Policy Practice and Research (CCPPR);and director of the Deafness and Family Communication Center, Children's Seashore House, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.;Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, J.D., was a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and co-Director of CCPPR until July, 2001, when she became the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, where she is founder and director of a new Center for Children and the Law based on CCPPR's organizing principles.;Alyssa Burrell Cowan, M.S.W., is the former coordinator of the Center for Policy, Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Public Interest Scholar and student at Temple University's Beasley School of Law. |
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| Abstract: | This paper will describe the genesis and philosophy of the Center for Children's Policy. Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania (CCPPR), a joint project of the Schools of Law, Medicine and Social Work. The mission of CCPPR was to mobilize the resources of all disciplines engaged in childhood issues across the campus to seek innovative solutions for the crises facing America's children. CCPPR seeks to combine clinical practice, research, and policy in a vertical structure that would maintain linkages at all stages of scholarship, practice, and reform. Five essential structural factors were that the project must be: (a) vertically integrated; (b) interdisciplinary; (c) team-based; (d) child-centered and (e) developmentally informed. This paper can serve as a template for developing similar centers or projects, and will describe our methods, the projects we have undertaken, as well as the pitfalls and challenges of this highly demanding integrative approach. |
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