AGENDA*

8:30 a.m.

  

REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST

9:00 a.m

  

WELCOME – OPENING REMARKS

Rebecca Chew, Chief Program Officer, NYC DSS

Molly Wasow Park, Commissioner, NYC HRA)

9:25 a.m.

  

"CHILD SUPPORT IN NEW YORK CITY"

Frances Pardus-abbadessa, Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYC HRA OCSS

9:35 a.m.

  

KEYNOTE "DOING GOOD WHILE DOING NO FURTHER HARM"

Jennifer Jones-Austin, Esq., Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, NY

10:15 a.m.

  

DEFINING STRUCTURAL RACISM

Dorothea Nixon, Director, Anti-Bias Trauma-Informed Training Program 

10:40 a.m.

  

“THE DATA SAYS…”

Kinsey Dinan, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Research and Policy Innovation, NYC DSS

11:00 a.m.

  

BREAK

11:15 a.m.

  

PANEL 1: “LISTENING”

This panel is comprised of noncustodial and custodial parents with lived experiences discussing their experience with structural racism in the child support program and how it has impacted them and their families.

MODERATOR:

Dr. Richard Reeves, Associate Dir., Union Settlement, NYC

 

PANELISTS:

Stevan "Coach" Lynn

Hasan Abdul Malik

Coley Washington

12:15 p.m.

  

LUNCH

1:10 p.m.

  

KEYNOTE: "I Do For My Kids. The Disproportionate Effects of Child Support Policy on Black Men."

Dr. David Pate, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1:50 p.m.

  

PANEL 2: “UNDERSTANDING”

A panel of experts from various fields including sociology, economics, policy, and law, discussing experiences raised by our Panel 1 parents and how the child support program’s policies have impacted Black and Brown families.

MODERATOR:

Solangel Maldonado, Prof. of Law, Seton Hall University, NJ

 

PANELISTS:

Grace Bonilla, President & CEO, United Way of NYC

Demond Drummer, The New School for Social Research, NY

Dr. Lynne Haney, Prof. of Sociology, New York University, NYC

Honorable Judge Thomas Quiñones, J.S.C.

3:00 p.m.

  

PANEL 3: “TAKING ACTION”

A roundtable discussion revisiting the day’s panels and offering ways to move forward to address child support program policies that have disparate impact on Black and Brown families.

MODERATOR:

Dr. David Pate, Prof. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

 

PANELISTS:

Rachel Braunstein, Dir. of Policy, Her Justice, NYC

Solangel Maldonado, Seton Hall University, NJ

Richard Reeves, Associate Dir., Union Settlement, NYC

4:10 p.m.

  

CLOSING REMARKS

Frances Pardus-abbadessa, Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYC HRA OCSS

*Subject to change