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Announcing
The 2007 North Carolina Summit on Youth & Families

“Building a Bright Future for All North Carolinians”
Economic Opportunity • Educational Excellence • Health and Well-being

December 4-5, 2007
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center RTP, Durham, NC

What is the Summit?

The 2007 North Carolina Summit on Youth and Families convenes leaders in a dynamic, visionary, collegial setting from education, government, business, and communities. The Summit’s goal is to examine critically the current status and future direction of our state’s youth and families. The first of its kind in our state, the Summit is targeted to professionals and volunteers from non-profit organizations, government agencies, and business and industry.

The 2007 Summit will focus upon the following three critical, contemporary issues facing our state’s youth and families:

  1. Strengthening Economic Opportunities: Economic opportunities are created through strategic connections among individuals and families, education, and community-based resources These connections promote vibrant communities that foster competitiveness in employment and business creation in our global economy;
  2. Striving for Educational Excellence: Educational excellence is a principle guiding policy-makers and educational institutions to provide opportunities for all people to gain knowledge and skills to achieve their maximum potential to contribute to family, community and society; and
  3. Improving Health and Well-being: Health and well-being is not just the absence of disease, but an optimal state of complete physical, mental and social capacity that allows youth and families to live their best lives.

Sponsored by the Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family & Consumer Sciences at North Carolina State University, specific Summit objectives include:

  • Examining critical and emerging issues facing North Carolina’s youth and families and their communities;
  • Discussing how existing organizations, agencies, and programs may successfully address these issues through community-based programs;
  • Envisioning new strategies and approaches to better address these and other emerging issues in the future; and
  • Interacting across geographic and organizational boundaries to share ideas and strengthen collaborations and partnerships.