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Acknowledgments

Jane Nusbaum Feller is a staff attorney at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law. Her duties at the Center include serving as editor of the ABA Juvenile & Child Welfare Law Reporter, providing legal expertise on projects involving child abuse and foster care, and writing on a variety of child-related topics. Prior to joining the Center, she worked as a family lawyer in Buffalo, New York.

Howard Davison has been working full-time on child welfare and protection issues for over 17 years. He has directed the ABA Center on Children and the Law since its establishment in 1979. This program of the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division is based in Washington, DC. It provides expert technical assistance, program evaluation and consultation, and training on such issues as: child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, child support enforcement, and parental child abduction. Mr. Davidson directs a large staff of attorneys and social scientists who are engaged in a variety of national and state-specific research, consulting, legal education, and writing projects. He also serves as Chair of the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Mark Hardin has directed the Center's Foster Care and Family Preservation Program since 1980. Earlier, he was part of the historic Oregon-based national permanent families for children project. He also was a legal services attorney representing children in Portland. He is the editor of Foster Children in the Courts and has written many other books and journal articles on child protection and foster care. He recently served as a member of the Child Welfare League of America's National Commission on Family Foster Care.

Bob Horowitz has been the Center's associate director since its inception. His expertise includes child welfare agency liability, children with HIV infection, parental substance abuse, abandoned infants, and general child protection issues. He is co-editor of the book Legal Rights of Children and has edited both the ABA Juvenile and Child Welfare Law Reporter and the Children's Legal Rights Journal. He has served as associate professor of family law at Washington School of Law (American University), as well as sat on several task forces of the Child Welfare League of America.

The following were members of the Advisory Panel for Contract No. HHS-105-88-1702:

Thomas Berg
Private Practice
Washington, DC

Richard Cage
Montgomery County Department of Police
Rockville, MD

Peter Correia
National Resource Center for Youth Services
Tulsa, OK

Howard Davidson
ABA Center on Children and the Law
Washington, DC

Helen Donovan
National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse
Chicago, IL

Judee Filip
American Association for Protecting Children
Englewood, CO

Kathleen Furukawa
Military Family Resource Center
Arlington, VA

Judy Howard
University of California
Los Angeles, CA

Molly Laird
League Against Child Abuse
Westerville, OH

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Additional Acknowledgment

The Department of Health and Human Services acknowledges the contribution of Hortense R. Landau, Marsha K. Salus, Thelma Stiffarm, with Nora Lee Kalb, authors of Child Protection: The Role of the Courts, 1980.

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