• Children's Health Insurance & the Healthy Children Program
Barbara Best, Chairman, Texas Chapter, Children’s Defense Fund
• The Whole and Healthy Child
Michael Aceves-Lewis, Development Director, Mission Houston
• Why Pre-School Matters
Evan Harrel, Executive Director,Small Steps Nurturing Center
• Special Education
Robin Rettie, special education advocate & consultant
May 3: Panel on Juvenile Justice and Child Advocacy
• The Cradle to Prison Pipeline
Brandi Brown (and guests), Director, Texas Youth Leadership Program/Freedom Schools, Children’s Defense Fund
• A Prosecutor's View of the System
Lynne Parsons, Prosecutor, Harris County District Attorney’s office
• A Music Ministry Serving Incarcerated Youth
Bill Ward, Crosswalk Ministries
• Child Advocacy
Claire Sabatier, Recruitment, Training and Retention Manager, Child Advocates, Houston
