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Authority on African-American families to speak Nov. 12
Craig
Chamberlain, Education Editor
(217) 333-2894; cdchambe@illinois.edu
11/5/02
CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — Robert B. Hill, a nationally known authority on African-American
families, will speak on "Understanding Black Families: Strengths
and Challenges" in a lecture Nov. 12 (Tuesday) at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hill’s talk, the first in a new "Visiting Scholars in Child
Welfare" series, will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 406 of the Illini
Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana.
The
talk, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Children and
Family Research Center (CFRC), a unit of the School
of Social Work.
In his presentation, Hill will discuss the strengths of African-American
families, in particular the strength of kinship bonding and its implications
for subsidized guardianship programs for children in the care of relatives.
Hill is a senior researcher at Westat Inc., an opinion and research
firm based in Rockville, Md. He has been researching and publishing
on the topic of African-American families since 1972, when his book
"The Strengths of Black Families" was published. His second
book, "The Strengths of African-American Families: Twenty-Five
Years Later," was published in 1999.
Hill also has contributed to an upcoming book, "Race Matters: Examining
the Overrepresentation of African-Americans in the Child Welfare System,"
edited by the CFRC and to be published by the Child Welfare League of
America.
The new lecture series, which will run through next spring, is designed
to provide a forum on issues that impact child-welfare policy in Illinois
and nationally. Lectures in the series should be of interest to researchers,
educators and students in this and related fields, as well as social
work practitioners and interested community members.
