LAST CHANCE ETHICS!

November 5, 9am-12pm CST on Zoom

Registration: $25

FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health (with registration)

Presenters Bio:   Margaret Lloyd Sieger, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. Dr. Lloyd Sieger’s research focuses on policies and practices to address substance use in pregnant and parenting mothers. Her current research examines state-level changes to Plan of Safe Care policies on substance exposed infants; cannabis use in pregnancy; family treatment court effectiveness; and best practice standards implementation. She has published over 60 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed literature on these topics. She earned her doctorate at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, masters at Avila University, and bachelors at the University of Arizona.

 Workshop Description: When a child dies from maltreatment, everyone wants answers fast: How many children does this happen to? Could it have been prevented? Who is responsible? Where did we go wrong? But the data we rely on to answer these questions are often incomplete, defined differently across states, and easy to misread. In this 3-hour session, we will look closely at what the prevalence data can and cannot tell us, how media coverage shapes the public story of these deaths, and how all of this, accurate or not, ends up driving real changes in policy and in day-to-day practice on the front lines. My goal is to help participants think critically about the decisions that get made in the aftermath of a child’s death and what it would look like to make those decisions more carefully, with a clearer eye on the evidence we actually have.