Selected Publications
Five Answers That Will Change the Future, invited guest blog for National Council on Crime & Delinquency for National Foster Care Month, May 13, 2013.
A Path From Girlhood to Womanhood for Girls in Foster Care, invited guest blog for National Council on Crime & Delinquency for National Foster Care Month, May 24, 2013.
Your Call Could Save a Life, Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui, special insert in the Maui News for Prevent Child Abuse Month, page 10, April 28, 2013.
Responding to the Needs of Adolescent Girls in Foster Care, co-authored with Karen Baynes-Dunning, 20 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 321 (2013), reprinted with permission, originally published in the Winter 2013 Volume XX, Number 2 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy.
Parenting Using the Protective Factors, Maui News, Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui Insert, April 29, 2012 (pdf).
Child Maltreatment Exacts Huge Cost (subscription only), Honolulu Star-Advertiser, February 12, 2012 (pdf).
Preventing Child Abuse is Wise Investment, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, April 6, 2011.
If You Want to Prevent Crime, Work to Prevent Child Abuse, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 30, 2011.
Psychotropic Meds for Youth in Foster Care: Who Decides?, published by the Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children, January 2011.
What is Right for Children? The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights, edited with Martha Albertson Fineman, Ashgate Publishing, 2009.
Secure Detention of Status Offenders: A research-based policy response to the Georgia General Assembly, co-authored with Darlene Lynch and Randee Waldman, distributed by the Barton Child Law and Policy Center, March 2008.
Representing the Whole Child: A Juvenile Defender Training Manual, authors Amy Howell and Brooke Silverthorne; Karen Worthington Lead Editor and Assistant Project Manager. Published by the Southern Juvenile Defender Center of Emory University, May 2005.
Georgia’s Responsibilities Toward Children in Foster Care: A Reference Manual, author Danette Joslyn-Gaul; Karen Worthington Editor and Project Director, published by the Barton Clinic, February 2005.
Workplace Supports to Improve Georgia’s Child Protective Services, editor and contributing author, distributed by the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic, March 2002.
Strategies to Strengthen Georgia’s Child Protective System: A Policy Paper for the 2001 General Legislative Session, contributing author and primary editor, distributed by the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic, January 2001.
Once We Know Who, What, And Where, Will We Ask Why?: Demographics and Dispositions of Children Processed in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Georgia, Jan A. Wheeler, Karen L. Worthington, Trish McCann, Debbie Phillips, 18 Quinnipiac Law Review 3 (1999). Article prepared for presentation at a symposium: The Juvenile Justice Counter-Reformation: Children and Adolescents as Adult Criminals, September 18-19, 1998.
Working with Child Deprivation Cases in Georgia's Juvenile Courts: A Reference Manual for Attorneys Representing Parents, principal developer and author, funded and distributed by the Supreme Court of Georgia Child Placement Project, November 1997.
A Path From Girlhood to Womanhood for Girls in Foster Care, invited guest blog for National Council on Crime & Delinquency for National Foster Care Month, May 24, 2013.
Your Call Could Save a Life, Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui, special insert in the Maui News for Prevent Child Abuse Month, page 10, April 28, 2013.
Responding to the Needs of Adolescent Girls in Foster Care, co-authored with Karen Baynes-Dunning, 20 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 321 (2013), reprinted with permission, originally published in the Winter 2013 Volume XX, Number 2 issue of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy.
Parenting Using the Protective Factors, Maui News, Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui Insert, April 29, 2012 (pdf).
Child Maltreatment Exacts Huge Cost (subscription only), Honolulu Star-Advertiser, February 12, 2012 (pdf).
Preventing Child Abuse is Wise Investment, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, April 6, 2011.
If You Want to Prevent Crime, Work to Prevent Child Abuse, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 30, 2011.
Psychotropic Meds for Youth in Foster Care: Who Decides?, published by the Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children, January 2011.
What is Right for Children? The Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights, edited with Martha Albertson Fineman, Ashgate Publishing, 2009.
Secure Detention of Status Offenders: A research-based policy response to the Georgia General Assembly, co-authored with Darlene Lynch and Randee Waldman, distributed by the Barton Child Law and Policy Center, March 2008.
Representing the Whole Child: A Juvenile Defender Training Manual, authors Amy Howell and Brooke Silverthorne; Karen Worthington Lead Editor and Assistant Project Manager. Published by the Southern Juvenile Defender Center of Emory University, May 2005.
Georgia’s Responsibilities Toward Children in Foster Care: A Reference Manual, author Danette Joslyn-Gaul; Karen Worthington Editor and Project Director, published by the Barton Clinic, February 2005.
Workplace Supports to Improve Georgia’s Child Protective Services, editor and contributing author, distributed by the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic, March 2002.
Strategies to Strengthen Georgia’s Child Protective System: A Policy Paper for the 2001 General Legislative Session, contributing author and primary editor, distributed by the Barton Child Law & Policy Clinic, January 2001.
Once We Know Who, What, And Where, Will We Ask Why?: Demographics and Dispositions of Children Processed in the Adult Criminal Justice System in Georgia, Jan A. Wheeler, Karen L. Worthington, Trish McCann, Debbie Phillips, 18 Quinnipiac Law Review 3 (1999). Article prepared for presentation at a symposium: The Juvenile Justice Counter-Reformation: Children and Adolescents as Adult Criminals, September 18-19, 1998.
Working with Child Deprivation Cases in Georgia's Juvenile Courts: A Reference Manual for Attorneys Representing Parents, principal developer and author, funded and distributed by the Supreme Court of Georgia Child Placement Project, November 1997.