The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SS) will be hosting Professor Julia R. Henly from the University of Chicago during her visit to CityUHK on April 10, 2025. As part of her visit, Professor Julia R. Henly and Professor Sylvia Kwok from SS, CityUHK will give a seminar on “Navigating Childcare Services in the United States and Hong Kong”. We are pleased to invite you to attend the seminar. Attached please find the profile of Professor Henly and Professor Kwok, also the topics and abstracts of presentation.

Professor Julia R. Henly's Profile: https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/directory/julia-r-henly

Topic: Public investments in child care and early education: Financing mechanisms to support parental employment, children’s development, and the wellbeing of the childcare workforce

Abstract: There is a vexing policy conundrum in the childcare and early education field: How do we create an equitable, affordable, high-quality childcare system that serves the needs of working parents, their children, and the childcare workforce? In the United States, where the childcare market is largely private, providers must charge prices that are too high for most working parents, but too low to sustain quality programming for children and good jobs for childcare providers. Public investment is crucial to resolving this paradox, but the allocation of funds – how, to whom, and for what purposes – also requires careful consideration. In this talk, Henly will discuss alternative financing mechanisms – especially demand side vouchers and supply side grants to programs – and share some of her past and ongoing research that examines the benefits and challenges of both approaches for improving childcare access, children’s development, and the wellbeing of the childcare workforce.

Professor Sylvia Kwok's Profile: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/yuk-ching-sylvia-kwok-lai(7868bc73-a141-42fe-9e91-ae3f569853ff).html

Topic: Examining the relationship between foreign domestic helpers and parenting correlates and children’s externalizing behaviour in Hong Kong

Abstract: Approximately one third of Hong Kong households with children aged 12 and below employed live-in foreign domestic helpers (FDHs). However, research is scarce on examining the relationships between this FDHs-involved childcare and children’s externalizing behaviour. In

this talk, Sylvia will share findings on how children’s attachment towards FDHs, paternal and maternal parenting practices (including warmth, control, and guan) correlate to children’s externalizing behaviour, as well as discuss the implications of these findings on childcare services in Hong Kong.

Event Details
Date: 10 April 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 15:00 to 17:00
Venue: 6-213, 6/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, CityUHK

Registration: https://forms.gle/QTtkTW515JW8f2Ww7

For more information, please refer to the attached poster.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at ccmak7@cityu.edu.hk.
 

We look forward to your participation.