Spring CARE Session

The CARE center provides care to more than 1,000 children a year from across Louisiana and southern Mississippi. We adhere to strict policy to never turn a child in need away no matter the family's ability to pay. We depend on annual fundraisers to continue, expand, and advance our medical services.

The Audrey Hepburn CARE Center and New Orleans Children's Advocacy Center

<H2><STRONG>8:30 am:</STRONG> Dr. Patton: Parent-to-Prison Pipeline</H2>
<P>While over 70 percent of American parents favor spanking children, black parents have a particular attachment to the practice, believing, in part, that it will protect their children from street violence, the police, and prison. Drawing from her work and research on black child advocacy, abuse survivor, award-winning journalist and child activist Dr. Stacey Patton will discuss how the use of corporal punishment is a crucial factor in explaining why black folks are subject to disproportionately higher rates of school suspensions and expulsions, criminal prosecutions, child abuse cases, and foster care placements, which too often funnel abused and traumatized children into the prison system. She will examine how America's unsavory and violent history of the mistreatment of black children that emerged from slavery and Jim Crow continues to inform contemporary black patterns of physical punishment of their children. </P>
<H2><STRONG>10:00 am:</STRONG> Stacie LeBlanc and Dr. Patton: Painless Parenting Workshop</H2>
<P><SPAN>Researchers have found that the social norms regarding spanking and other forms of corporal punishment are the biggest risk factors for child physical abuse. This lecture educates participants on the ineffectiveness of physical punishment as a parenting strategy, the adverse psychological effects of physical punishment on children, and the benefits of alternative disciplining strategies. Through group discussion, participants will learn how to break social norms with new and more effective disciplining and emotion-regulating techniques.</SPAN></P>

Tulane University School of Medicine

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