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Sandra L. Enos
Protecting Rhode Island's Children: Claims Making and Child Cruelty
For the past five years, Sandra Enos has been researching the history, development, and disappearance of the orphanages, asylums, and homes for children who were dependent, neglected, delinquent, and abandoned in Rhode Island. This history reaches back to the 1830s and brings us to contemporary times. Rhode Island has had an interesting history in its response to child cruelty. Once the responsibility of private agencies, the investigation of complaints of abuse and neglect became state work in the 19660s. This presentation examines how our attention to the problems facing children are focused by child advocates and how our understanding of these problems and our responses to them have changed over time.
Needs: Powerpoint projector and screen; Lighted lectern
Dr. Sandra L. Enos, Associate Professor at Bryant University, is an active scholar and professor whose research projects include child welfare history and development, claims making and social movements, the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, and social innovation for social change. She was Associate Professor at Rhode Island College until July 2006. In addition she was a member of the State Home and School Oral History Project and served as Project Director of Campus Compact in the 1990s. Her book Mothering from the Inside: Parenting in a Women's Prison was published in 2001. She is author of numerous articles and chapters in books, monographs, and encyclopedias.