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Expert:

       Dr. Richard J. Gelles
       Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice
       University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:

• Nationally recognized expert on child welfare, child welfare policies, child abuse and neglect and domestic violence
• Co-director of the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of Social Policy & Practice, Law School and Perelman School of Medicine, all at Penn, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
• He can discuss the Ohio case of an 8-year-old boy taken from his family and placed into the foster-care system.

Media contact:

            Jill DiSanto at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu