Which Way, L.A.?
Child Abuse
"High risk babies with nowhere to go" What happens when an infant's parents are known to be substance abusers? Child abusers? Homeless? Or not known at all? Los Angeles County is trying to save children from abuse and neglect BEFORE it happens. How are we doing?
By Warren Olney • TRISH PLOEHN: Director of training programs at Department of Children and Family Services. LESLIE PIONKE: Licensed clinical social worker who began medical social work in 1973 in Chicago and has since headed social work departments at Children-s Hospital of Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks Hospital and Burn Center, and now Valley Presbyterian. DR. STEVEN AMBROSE: Clinical psychologist at Children-s Institute International, a private nonprofit child abuse and neglect treatment and prevention agency based in Los Angeles. TANYA BURNS: Adoptions policy analyst for Department of Children and Family Services. VIRGINIA (JENNY) WEISZ: Directing attorney of children-s rights for Public Counsel Law Center.JUDGE TERRY FRIEDMAN: Supervising Judge of Los Angeles Superior Court Juvenile Dependency Division. RUTH KILDAY: Executive Director of the Mountains Conservancy Foundation, a nonprofit that operates in conjunction with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. JOHN JACOBS: Political Editor for McClatchy Newspapers, based at the Sacramento Bee.
topic: SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS BACKBONE TRAIL
