Hot Topics at CRC's 20th Anniversary Conference

Hot Topics at CRC's 20th Anniversary Conference

The Children's Rights Council announces its 20th Anniversary Conference "Shared Parenting in the 21st Century" November 3-5 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia.

High-Octane Topics will include Defining the Best Interests of the Child, Paternity Establishment, Parental Alienation of Children, and The Rights of Children in Same Sex Marriages.

Also, How Judges Decide Custody Cases, Community Responses to Domestic Violence, Media Misperceptions of the Family, Essential Elements to Winning Joint Custody, How to Mediate Successfully, Child Access Centers: Problems and Solutions, and much more.

Speakers will include:

• syndicated columnists "Ask Amy" Dickinson, Glenn Sachs, Cathy Young, Kathleen Parker
• Reading-Aloud-to-Children Advocate Wally "Famous" Amos
• Congressmembers Albert R. Wynn (D-MD) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD)
• Deputy U.S. Surgeon General Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu
• Author Elizabeth Marquardt ("Between Two Worlds")
• Marriage Savers co-founder Mike McManus
• Federal Child Support Commissioner Margot Bean and former Commissioner David Gray Ross;
• Parenting educator Jayne A. Major;
• Custody Reform Advocates Ronald K. Henry, Ned Holstein and Dan Hogan ("Fathers and Families")
• Stephen Baskerville ("American Coalition of Fathers and Children")
• CRC State Leaders Sal Frasca, Myrna Murdoch, Mark Roseman, Rachel Forrest
• Judges Paul Panepinto (Philadelphia), Anita Josey-Herring (Washington, D.C.), Paul Garfinkel (South Carolina), Sharon Townsend (New York) CRC Access Center Directors Margaret Wuwert and Alfred Ellis
• Grant Writers Bob Billingham, Sr. and John Jolley (HHS)
• Family Law attorneys Nicholas Palermo, Sharon Berg, John Bauserman, Jr. and Michael L. Oddenino
• Psychologist S. Richard Sauber (co-editor of the new "The International Handbook of Parental Alienation Syndrome")
• Other psychologists, educators, writers, child advocates.
• And Much More....

The conference begins Friday Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. and ends Sunday, Nov. 5
at noon.

Up to 14 hours of CEU's offered by the American Psychological Association (APA) and up to 15 hours by the National Council on Family Relations.

Access Facilitator Certification for new and experienced Access Staff.
Post-Conference on Capitol Hill Monday, Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. on "International Child Abduction and Custody Trends Around the World," with speakers from Embassies and CRC chapters in UK, Canada, Australia, and other countries.

For more information and registration, go to www.crckids.org

For special hotel rate of $109 a night, contact Sheraton Hotel at 1-800-325-3535 or 703/486-1111. Ask for the CRC rate.
CRC is also at 1-800-787-KIDS or info@crckids.