You can download the PDF version of the Everybody's Talking booklet here:

Everybodys_Talking.pdf

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our appreciation to the organizations and the people who helped in the development of this book. Our special thanks to the Department of Criminal Justice Services for their financial support in creating this booklet for parents of children involved with the courts to assist them in protecting the rights of their children.

We are grateful to the staff of the Parent Education Advocacy and Training Center (PEATC) for sharing their expertise and keeping us focused on the parents’ perspective. We would like to specifically acknowledge the assistance of several PEATC staff members: Cherie Takemoto, Executive Director; Pierre Ames, Project Coordinator; Bellen Joyner, Information Specialist; and, Daaiyah Rashid, Information Specialist. Thanks also to those experts from child-serving agencies who willingly gave of their time to read the manuscript and provide feedback: Betty Jo Zarris, CPS Policy Specialist, Department of Social Services; Julie Linker, Ph.D., Associate Director, Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies; and Shirley Wiley, PhD, Director of Education, Virginia Treatment Center for Children. Dr. Dennis Waite, Chief Psychologist of the Department of Juvenile Justice kindly responded to many questions.

We appreciate the work of International Language Services of Burke, Virginia, who provided the Spanish translation of this booklet and we are very grateful to José Anel González, Bilingüal Technical Assistance Specialist of the University of Illinois at Chicago/Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center for reviewing the Spanish language version for us.

Thanks to Sharon Dailey, Administrative Assistant, University of Richmond, for her work on the manuscript; to Karen Bartee, Fiscal Technician, Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies, for dealing with the money; and Eunice Seaborn, Secretary, Commonwealth Institute for Child and Family Studies, for her cheerful clerical support.

Adrienne Volenik
Jeri Baker and
Donald Oswald

Contact

For additional information about the "Everybody's Talking" booklet and the associated video, please contact:

Adrienne Volenik
Children's Law Center University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173
(804) 289-8921
avolenik@richmond.edu

or

Donald Oswald
Department of Psychiatry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Box 980489
Richmond, VA 23298-0489
(804) 828-9900
doswald@vcu.edu