First Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Institute May 18-22, Now Open to Licensed Social Workers for CEU Credit

Capital University Law School and the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy will offer graduate level social work and law students from schools throughout the country the chance to participate in the first Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Institute (ICWI), an intensive one week study of child protection issues from both academic and practitioner perspectives. ICWI is one of the few interdisciplinary child welfare courses offered in the nation. This two credit course will be held during the week of May 18 through May 22. The course is also open for Continuing Education Units for licensed social workers.

The institute will take place at Capital University Law School, 303 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio.

The ICWI will provide students with a mutual understanding of legal and sociological principles central to child welfare practice. In the increasingly complex world of child welfare, quality collaboration among legal and social work professionals is critical to keeping children safe and strengthening families. Interdisciplinary learning provides a common foundation for students from different professional programs and an environment for developing the skills required of future child welfare attorneys and social workers.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the course, ICWI is co-taught by: Angela Upchurch, academic director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy and associate professor of law at Capital University, and Carla Carpenter, MSSW, associate director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy and adjunct professor at Capital University Law School.

For more information about the Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Institute, visit www.law.capital.edu/adoption/ICWI/, call or email the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy at (614)236-6730 or adoption@law.capital.edu. For more information on the CEU opportunity please visit https://secure.law.capital.edu/symposia/index.cfm?sid=642.