NSU Fellowship to Discuss Child Abuse in the United States: Shame of a Nation April 3-4

Norfolk, Va.— Norfolk State University will host “Child Abuse in the United States: Shame of a Nation,” a two day Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Media Fellowship“ designed to provide journalists with in-depth discussions and workshops about the legal, social, and economic impact of child abuse. The fellowship will be held April 3-4 at the ODU/NSU Virginia Beach Higher Education Center. 

Twelve journalists from across the country and the Hampton Roads region will be involved in an intense program with University faculty and experts to discuss child abuse.Workshop topics will include keeping children safe; how editors/reporters develop child abuse stories; legal issues, policies and procedures; a community responds to child abuse/neglect; the foster care system; an insider’s view; children at risk: the assessment process; the education of social workers; the military response to child abuse/neglect cases; state of Virginia issues; and the economic impact of child abuse. 

Top-notch journalists, social workers and legal experts have been recruited to serve as presenters. Among the best of the best includes Sarah Cohen, a Washington Post reporter who won the 2002 Pulitzer, along with Scott Higham and Sari Horowitz, for their investigative series exposing “the District of Columbia’s role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000.” Their award-winning series prompted an overhaul of the city’s child welfare system.

Leslie Brody, a staff writer with North New Jersey’s The Record newspaper, will discuss how she and team of reporters broke the story about the four brothers who were found locked in the basement of an apartment. Brody has continued to follow and file subsequent stories about this child abuse case. Representatives from area Department of Social Services and the Regional Child Fatalities Reporting Center will also provide insight.

Norfolk State University was one of only 23 proposals accepted nationwide out of a pool of hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and South Africa. A group of senior media representatives from top news organizations including CNN, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Washington Post select the fellowships to be offered. Judges choose fellowships that will be of greatest interest to journalists based on subject matter, programming, and participation by experienced faculty. 

CASE, the largest international association of education associations, helps its members build stronger relationships with their alumni and donors, raise funds for campus projects, produce recruitment materials, market their institutions to prospective students, diversify the profession, and foster public support of education. CASE also offers a variety of advancement products and services, provides standards and an ethical framework for the profession, and works with other organizations to respond to public issues of concern, while promoting the importance of education worldwide.

For more information, call the Office of News and Media Relations at 823-8373 or Cheryl Wesley, senior communications program coordinator for CASE, at 202-478-5646 or via email at wesley@case.org.

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