ORANGE : Councilman to Join Child-Welfare Tour
Councilman William G. Steiner will join a delegation of 35 child-welfare experts from the United States in a visit to Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union next month.
The delegation will spend 17 days exploring how child-welfare practices have been affected by the region’s rapid political, social, economic and legal changes.
The American delegates will visit schools, child-care centers, orphanages, government offices and other institutions in Warsaw, Prague, Moscow and other Eastern European and Soviet cities.
The delegation will travel under the auspices of People to People International, founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.
While citizen ambassadors from the group have been involved in similar exchanges throughout the world, this is the group’s first opportunity to examine the status of children in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Steiner, who is executive director of the Orangewood Children’s Foundation, was recently elected vice chairman of the board of directors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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