THE FIELD CENTER
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Fred Wulczyn Speaks on “Bang for Your Buck” in Child Welfare

Fred Wulczyn, PhD was the featured speaker at the Field Center’s spring Community Symposium on April 9, 2008. His presentation, titled “More Bang for Your Buck: Public Child Welfare and the Pursuit of Accountability,” examined the idea of return on investments as it relates to the funding spent on the child welfare system. An engaged audience participated with Dr. Wulczyn in a Q&A session after his talk that posed questions about the future of financial accountability and quantifiable results in the child welfare systems of Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.

Dr. Wulczyn is a Research Fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data. He is the recipient of the 2006 Peter Forsythe Award for Leadership in public child welfare, presented by the National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators. From 2006 – 2007, he served on Mayor Street’s Child Welfare Review Panel. His recent writings focus on racial disparities in the foster care system, adoption in the post-AFSA era, and fiscal reform. He is the lead author of Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being and the Evidence for Policy Reform.