January 2009
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Panel to Tackle Early Child Care and Education in Seattle
Leaders to link important research, practice, and policy February 4th

seattleeventNancy Marshall, Ed.D., WCW associate director and senior research scientist, will join other education and public policy leaders for a special panel in Seattle, WA on February 4 to address questions facing parents, educators, and policy makers. What do researchers recommend we do to improve early care and education programs? How can we promote the professional development and resource needs of our educators? What programs serve as best-practice models in Washington State and across the country? How can policy makers collaborate with and support community-based organizations, educators, parents, and researchers in advancing quality early education for all?

Leslie Goldstein, Executive Policy Advisor, Governor's Executive Policy Office, and Nina Auerbach, President and CEO of Thrive by Five Washington, will join Marshall on the panel, along with moderator Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D., WCW executive director. The program will be held at Seattle University's Casey Commons from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, please call 781-283-2831 or email events@wcwonline.org.

WCW Lunchtime Seminar Line-up Announced
Diverse presentations highlight WCW expertise beginning February 26

lunchmailerThe Lunchtime Seminar Series at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) offers residents and visitors to the Greater Boston area the opportunity to hear, in person, about work by WCW researchers and program staff. The spring 2009 schedule includes programs that focus on a range of topics, from research methodology and depression in adolescence to healing practices of hope.

Additional details about each program will be posted online closer to presentation dates.
 
February 26 - Adolescence to Adulthood: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms by Alice Frye, Ph.D., M.P.H.

March 5 - Hope in Action: Healing Practices of Power and Possibility by Maureen Walker, Ph.D.

March 12 - Kids on the Fastrack! A Study of an International Preschool Enrichment Program by Georgia Hall, Ph.D.

March 19 - Measuring Violence against Women: Global Reform Indicators and Knowledge Production by Sally Engle Merry, Ph.D.

March 26 - The Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents by Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D.

April 2 - Dual Trauma Couples--Implications for Family Violence by Pamela Alexander, Ph.D.

April 23 - Framing the Future: The Impact of Attachment and Parenting on Youth Attitudes by Deborah Schechter, Ph.D.

April 30 - How the Conservative Right Distorts Social Science Research to Validate Its Causes: A Case Study by Jean Hardisty, Ph.D.

Programs are held Thursdays, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Wellesley Centers for Women's Cheever House in Wellesley, MA. Many programs are recorded and posted on the Centers' website audio archive pages. All programs are free and open to the public. Confirm program schedule online or call 781-283-2500.
New Funding to Create Family Court Advocacy Training
 
The Boston Women's Fund has awarded a grant to Monica Driggers, J.D., WCW research scientist, to develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women. The project will directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive strategic knowledge. The aim is to teach these women, through their advocates, how to best navigate the court system without formal legal assistance and to become informed consumers of the justice system.

Driggers will work with the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance to create the curriculum and to hold a "train the trainers" session. The curriculum will be widely distributed to domestic violence service agencies in the Greater Boston area as well as to courts, cultural organizations, and relevant professional organizations.
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 Who Does She Think She Is?
Winter screenings scheduled across country

filmpostersmallWho Does She Think She Is?, a feature-length documentary produced by Mystic Artists in collaboration with the Wellesley Centers for Women, explores the lives of five women artists who are also mothers. In the film, each of the women sustains the competing claims on her heart despite financial hardship, institutional disinterest, and lack of support.

The documentary has enjoyed screenings at film festivals and in limited theatrical release across the country. Upcoming screenings will be held at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM, January 23-29; the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, IL, February 2; Rutgers University in New Jersey, February 10; the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, MT, February 13; the Women in Film and Video New England in Cambridge, MA, February 26; and Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 6.

View the trailer, learn more about the film's featured artists, see the most up-to-date schedule of screenings, and pre-order the DVD on the documentary's website.
Thank you for moving our work forward.

We rely on the generous support of people like you, people who understand the need for women's voices and experiences to be heard. Here at the Wellesley Centers for Women, we are working to do just that. And by anticipating critical social issues and researching effective ways to address them, we are making a difference in the lives of women and families.
 
During these financially challenging times, our efforts and your support are needed more than ever. Please support the Wellesley Centers for Women today. You can make your tax-deductible gift over the phone (781.283.2484) or online (www.wcwonline.org/donate).

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Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Wellesley Centers for Women