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-----Original Message-----
From: Johnny Lee [mailto:johnnyl email.unc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [prevent_listserv] PREVENT events: Youth Violence
Webinar and Child
Maltreatment Institute
Greetings,
We would like to tell you about two unique PREVENT events, a
Web Conference
on youth violence and an Institute on Child Maltreatment.
First, you are
invited to attend and encouraged to inform colleagues about
"Involving Youth
In Violence Prevention: A PREVENT Web Conference" that
will take place
Thursday, May 4th, 2006 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm ET (1:00-2:30
pm CT, 12:00-1:30
pm MT 11:00 am-12:30 PT).
This web conference is free and will include presentations
on projects
working to prevent violence at the community level and
describe the benefits
of working with youth.
Speakers to include:
* Andres Villaveces, MD, PhD
Epidemiologist, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center
* Sarah Raskin, MPH
Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and
Prevention
* Susan Morrel-Samuels, MA, MPH
Managing Director, Youth Empowerment Solutions (YES)
* Everett Roberts, MS
Project Manager, Youth Empowerment Solutions for
Peaceful
Communities (YES)
* Pamela Riley, Ed.D.
Executive Director, National Association of Students
Against
Violence Everywhere (SAVE)
* The YES Council President (youth presenter)
* The Chair of the Youth Advisory Board (youth presenter)
For more information about the conference please visit,
h
ttp://prevent.unc.edu/education/distance_learn.htm or
email Jenny Cook
at jenny_cookunc.edu
Second, please consider and pass on the opportunity to those
that might be
interested in a helping to prevent child abuse and neglect
before it starts.
This unique PREVENT Institute will focus on the prevention
of child abuse
and neglect.
"The 2006-2007 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute
offers public health
leadership training to experienced teams from across the
country, who are
working to stop child maltreatment before the first
victimization or
perpetration occurs.
Team participants can expect to enhance core competencies in
the primary
prevention of child maltreatment, including: planning and
evaluating
effective programs; stimulating organizational and social
change;
enhancing leadership skills; critically evaluating the
literature and
translating science into practice; effectively communicating
with media and
policy makers; and implementing promising practices.
The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute will include two
three-day
in-person sessions and eight months of coaching at homes
sites on a
team-developed project.
The first three-day session will be held July 17-19 in
Chapel Hill, North
Carolina. The second session will be conducted in March,
2007. Tuition,
room and board are supported by funding from the Centers for
Disease Control
and Prevention. Travel stipends are available.
For more information and to submit an application, please
visit
http://prevent.unc
.edu/education/.
Thank you very much,
Johnny Lee
PREVENT TRAINING DIRECTOR
919.966.0465
PREVENT is a component of the National Training Initiative
for Injury and
Violence Prevention, a joint effort of the State and
Territorial Injury
Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) and the Society
for the
Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). It is
operated by
the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research
Center (UNC
IPRC) through a cooperative agreement from the National
Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease
Control and
Prevention (CDC).
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