Illinois Models for Change Leader Honored as Faculty Member of the Year at Loyola University Chicago
Mar 1, 2010, Illinois Models for Change
Diane Geraghty, a leader of the Illinois Models for Change, has been recognized as the 2009 Faculty Member of the Year at Loyola University Chicago.
Geraghty is founder and director of the Loyola Civitas ChildLaw Center, which is the lead entity for Models for Change in Illinois. Since the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation selected Illinois as one of four states to participate in its national initiative in 2006, Geraghty has played a leadership role to accelerate promising models for juvenile justice system reform through Models for Change in Illinois.
Loyola University Chicago chose Geraghty for the award from among the
more than 2,000 faculty at the Lake Shore, Medical Center, Water Tower, and overseas (Rome and Beijing) campuses.
“One of the great pleasures of teaching at Loyola over the last three decades has been the opportunity to work in concert with faculty not only in the law school but throughout the university in our collective pursuit of a more just society for children and families, the essential building block of all societies and a value espoused by all faiths,” Geraghty state in remarks at the awards ceremony. “The discipline of children's law in particular is inherently interdisciplinary. One cannot truly prepare students to serve the interests of children and families without exposing them to the research, literature, and insights of other disciplines, not just psychology and social work and education, but other fields, such as medicine and economics and the sciences.”
A member of the Loyola faculty since 1977, Geraghty also is the A. Kathleen Beazley Chair in Child Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Photo Credits: Bruce Powell
- Issues
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Aftercare
, Community-based alternatives
, Evidence-based practices
, Juvenile indigent defense
, Mental health
, Racial-ethnic fairness/DMC
, Right-sizing jurisdiction
- States
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Illinois
- Action networks
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DMC Action Network
, Indigent Defense Action Network
, Mental Health / Juvenile Justice Action Network