Testimony

Dr. Theodore Corbin's testimony from the Attorney General's Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence held in Baltimore, Maryland on April 13th, 2012.

Good morning, members of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee. I thank you and Representative Cherelle Parker for the opportunity to be here today.

Read the results of David Rubin’s kinship care research, which was presented on Capitol Hill in connection to pending legislation in the House and Senate that would provide access to important supportive services for relatives caring for children in foster care and those helping to keep children out of foster care.  On June 24, 2008, the House of Representatives passed the Fostering Connections to Success Act (H.R. 6307). The Act, passed with bipartisan support, extends greater supports to kinship families.

In testimony to the United States Department of Education on March 14, 2011, the Education Law Center cited the 2009-10 study conducted by Arley Styer, Stoneleigh Junior Fellow, on the education of children in Pennsylvania's residential placements and group homes.  Key findings of her study included:

Brian Foster and Jamar Saunders, members of the Chester High School Youth Court, and Stoneleigh Fellow Gregory Volz testified before the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on best practices in the juvenile justice systems on June 15, 2010 and the Pennsylvania House Children and Youth Committee hearing on deliquency prevention on June 10, 2010.