Summit Program
Thursday, November 20, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions IV:
TH-11: Supporting Our State’s Migrant and Seasonable Populations
Christine Alvarado, Assistant Director of Program Operations, East Coast Migrant Head Start Program
Within the past decade, North Carolina has experienced an explosion in the numbers of families and youth from migrant and/or seasonal populations. This session will help participants better understand policy and advocacy issues affecting these populations.
TH-12: The Nuts-and-Bolts of Building Strong Community Collaborations
Brenda Stone-Wiggins, Researcher, Public Health and Environment Division, Research Triangle Institute International
Effective, sustained community collaborations don’t just happen, they have to be built. This session will explore hands-on strategies for designing, developing and evaluate community partnerships.
TH-13: Collaboration to Build and Retain Sustainable Communities for All Ages
Gordon Walker, CEO, Jefferson Area Board for Aging, Charlottesville, VA
This session will focus upon proven strategies bringing together people with diverse constituencies and interests in designing sustainable communities with high quality of life for youth and families.
TH-14: Connecting Physiology to Public Policy
Wilkie Wilson, Director, Brain Works and Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center
This session will provide the most up-to-date, compelling research about brain development from birth to adolescence, and its implications for public policy at the conceptual intersection of developmental science with such policy issues as health, education, poverty and juvenile justice.
TH-15: Building Rural Community Networks
Malinda Todd, Assistant Director, NC REAL
Today, 85 identified counties comprise rural North Carolina. This session will highlight best practices identified through several programs to build community networks that encourage youth entrepreneurship.
TH-16: Strengthening Leadership for Youth and Families at the Grass-roots Level
Convener: Linda Harrill, President, Communities In Schools of North Carolina, Inc.
Panel members:
Leadership is a critical common thread that runs throughout issues facing our state’s youth and families. This session will highlight current leadership programs and initiatives for youth and adults, and professionals who work with them.
TH-17: Advocating for Our State’s Military Youth and Families
Convener: Dr. Harriett Edwards, Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist, Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family & Consumer Sciences, North Carolina State University.
Panel members:
This interactive panel session will address how various programs and agencies across the state are working together to advocate for the families and children of deployed individuals serving our nation.
TH-18: Interactive Tools for the Youth Development Specialist -- Far Beyond Icebreakers!
Eric Rowles, President/CEO, Leading To Change, Inc. and Aidil Oriz Collins, Training Associate, Leading To Change, Inc.
Get ready to move! In this highly interactive session, participants will experience first hand how to take various risk-level activities (sometimes erroneously referred to as ”ice breakers”) and turn them into powerful vehicles for youth and adult participation, involvement, and engagement with youth and family participants. Specifically, participants will experience first hand a minimum of six different multi-risk initiatives that can be used immediately -- and all requiring very little to no supplies, preparation, or materials. Please join us for this one-of-a-kind session that will leave you laughing and energized to facilitate your own activities.
TH-19: How to Effectively Engage and Connect with Latino Parents and Youth
Dr. Andrew Behnke, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University and Diana Urieta, Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina
This interactive workshop will help participants gain greater cultural competency to work effectively with Latino parents and youth. They will learn how to empower Latino parents to be more involved in their children’s education and to be leaders for change in their communities. They will learn how to work with parents to reduce significant risks, such as: child abuse, language delay.
TH-20: Caring Model of Parent-School-Community Engagement
Stephanie Jones, Extension Associate and Dr. Karen DeBord, Professor and Extension Child Development Specialist
School and community-based program administrators, staff and volunteers, parents and educators will be given an overview of a caring model of parent-school-community engagement developed by a team from NC State University, and informed by McDermott (2008). The program model targets middle school youth with excessive school absences, assesses them using the School Success Profile (SSP), and engages School Success Support Teams. Improving student attendance and grades are among the outcomes of the model. Data gathered during the project will be shared as well as positive aspects and challenges of the project
