{"id":266521,"date":"2010-02-02T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:35:06","slug":"u-s-state-department-report-highlights-%e2%80%9cessential%e2%80%9d-role-of-brooklyn-college-children%e2%80%99s-studies-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266521","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department Report Highlights \u201cEssential\u201d Role of Brooklyn College Children\u2019s Studies Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014A recently released United States Treaty Report cited the  Brooklyn College Children\u2019s Studies Center as an example of the \u201cessential role  of academic and nonprofit institutions\u201d working in the area of providing  oversight of children\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>The report, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/136023.pdf\">First Periodic  Report Concerning the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution,  and Child Pornography and U.S. Response to Recommendations in Committee  Concluding Observations of June 25, 2008<\/a>,<strong> <\/strong><\/em>(pdf) stated that  \u201cthe work of the Center, along with other non-governmental advocates, has been  crucial in the adoption of new laws in the state of New York. The Safe Harbor  for Sexually Exploited Youth Act, enacted Sept. 25, 2008, made New York the  first state in the nation to provide specialized services and safe housing for  children who have been sexually exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than half the states in the nation have established an  office of the child advocate or an ombudsman with the responsibility for  looking after the welfare of children, the report says.<br \/>\n  Brooklyn College became the first academic institution in the nation to  develop an interdisciplinary liberal&nbsp;arts&nbsp;children\u2019s studies&nbsp;program  in 1991.&nbsp;Professor Gertrud Lenzer  is the founding director of both the Children\u2019s Studies Program and of the  Children\u2019s Studies   Center, established in  1997 with mission mandates tied to pedagogy, research and public service to the  community.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n  References to the Brooklyn College Children\u2019s Studies Center may be found in paragraphs 102  and 103, page 24 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/136023.pdf\">the report<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014A recently released United States Treaty Report cited the Brooklyn College Children\u2019s Studies Center as an example of the \u201cessential role of academic and nonprofit institutions\u201d working in the area of providing oversight of children\u2019s services. The report, First Periodic Report Concerning the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}