The Inaugural Meyer Elkin Address A Family Commitment To Families And Children  

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Edelman, Jonah ; Edelman, Peter ; Edelman, Marian Wright

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Family Court Review vol. 37 no. 1 (Jan. 1999), page 8-23.
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The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the Family and Conciliation Courts Reviewis proud to present the first annual Meyer Elkin Address. The address honors the memory of Meyer Elkin, a founder of the AFCC and FCCR. Each year, beginning with June of 1998, a prominent person devoted to the welfare of children and families will be invited to deliver the Elkin Address at the annual Convention of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. The Elkin Address will be published in the following January edition of the FCCR. The first annual Meyer Elkin Address is presented by a family dedicated to children’s advocacy. This year’s Elkin speakers, chosen because they are the embodiment of devotion, powerful voices, and leaders of a movement dedicated to the well-being of all children, are the Edelmans— Marian Wright Edelman, her husband, Peter, and their son Jonah. As founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman has transformed a personal passion dedicated to the well-being of all children into a social institution. The Children’s Defense Fund, a Washington, D.C.–based national children’s advocacy group, founded 25 years ago, is a strong national voice for children and families. Its mission is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-1960s when, as the first Black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s March that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded theWashington Research Project, the parent body of the Children’s Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University, and in 1973 began the Children’s Defense Fund, where she continues as an advocate for disadvantaged American children and families. Mrs. Edelman has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize and the Heinz Award, and she was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow. She is the author of several books, including Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving andWorking for Children, Stand For Children, and A Memoir of Mentors. Mrs. Edelman is married to Peter Edelman, a Professor at Georgetown Law School. Peter Benjamin Edelman has been a faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center since 1982, where he is a Professor of Constitutional Law. He took a leave from 1993 until 1996 to serve in the Department of Health and Human Services, first as Counselor to Secretary Donna Shalala and then as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Mr. Edelman resigned from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to protest President Clinton’s signing of the 1996Welfare Bill, because of the bill’s detrimental effects on children. Professor Edelman was Associate Dean of the Law Center in the late 1980s, Director of the New York State Division for Youth in the late 1970s, and Vice President of the University of Massachusetts before that. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy as a Legislative Assistant from 1965 to 1968 and was Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy’s Presidential campaign in 1980. He served as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg in 1962-1963 and was Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General John Douglas in the U.S. Department of Justice just after that. Mr. Edelman is the author of numerous articles on poverty, constitutional law, and issues relating to children and youth. He has chaired and been a board member of many organizations and foundations, both nationally and in the local community.He has been a board member of the Center for Community Change, cochair of Americans for Peace Now, and a member of the National Governing Board of Common Cause. Mr. Edelman attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Jonah Martin Edelman, one of three sons of Marian Wright and Peter Edelman, is the Executive Director of Stand For Children, a national organization which organizes to build power to help ensure all children can grow up educated, healthy, and safe. Stand For Children has 100 chapters in 35 states. Jonah Edelman, a native Washingtonian, attended the D.C. public schools and the Sidwell Friends School. He graduated from Yale University in 1992, having been awarded the Alpheus Henry Snow prize for the Yale senior judged to have contributed the most to the Yale community in the prior four years. The summer after graduation, Mr. Edelman helped found a youth program, Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP) which matches local college students and high school students with 7- to 13-year-old public housing residents. LEAP, which served 200 children during its first summer, is now a nationally known, statewide program which serves nearly 1,000 Connecticut children. Mr. Edelman also studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, where in three years he earned Master’s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in the field of Politics. Jonah Edelman helped organize the historic June 1, 1996, Stand For Children, the biggest demonstration for children in American history. The following first annual Meyer Elkin address, presented at the annual Convention of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Washington, D.C., in June 1998, is presented as a speech, with only minor revisions having been made.1 Footnotes regarding content or accuracy of any statistics or other information presented are omitted.

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