Members of the Memphis/Shelby County Children and Youth Council and Staff of Memphis City Schools may be eligible for a discount: email Gwendolyn Wright at Gwendolyn.Wright@tn.gov 

Assuring Safe Futures for our Children:

Eliminating Community and School Violence

Memphis City Schools Teaching and Learning Academy

2485 Union Avenue

Memphis City Schools and the Memphis/Shelby County Children and Youth Council, a Regional Council of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, have joined together to present a conference, Assuring Safe Futures for Our Children: Eliminating Community and School Violence, on March 24 and 25, 2011.

The conference will offer workshops, presented by local, state and federal experts in their fields, which address issues of youth violence and victimization, highlighting prevention and intervention strategies that make a difference.  We will hear from a dynamic keynote speaker on March 24^th and the conference will culminate on March 25^th with a Community Café, during which you will have the opportunity to process what you have learned and discuss ways in which you and your profession can better serve the youth with whom you work. This timely conference coincides with National Youth Violence Prevention Week (March 21-25, 2011).

You will have the opportunity to leave this conference with innovative ideas and strategies for preventing and intervening in a variety of issues concerning youth violence and victimization. The cost to attend this conference is nominal and the information invaluable. We hope that you will join us!

Schedule at a Glance

 Thursday, March 24, 2011

(5 Training Hours)

 8:00 a.m.          

Registration/Continental Breakfast/Networking

8:30 a.m.          

Welcome

Opening Remarks

Chief Gerald L. Darling

Memphis City Schools

Concurrent Workshops

9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.  

v  Positive Youth Development Programs: Keys to Safe Schools for Our Children

v  What About The Children: The Memphis City Schools SHAPE Program

v  Gangsterism: Understanding the Gangster Mindset

v  Systems of Care: Transformation Needed NOW

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon

v  Shelby County District Attorney Mentoring Program

v  Faith Based Initiatives and Alternatives to Juvenile Justice

v  Children Exposed to Violence

v  Urban Gang Prevention/Intervention Strategies (Panel)

 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.   Lunch

 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.   Keynote Speaker: Dr. Freda G. Williams

Concurrent Workshops

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

v  Addressing Truancy

v  Operation: Safe Community

v  Look, Listen and Examine

v  Crimes Against Children: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Friday, March 25, 2011

(5 Training Hours)

 8:00 a.m.          

Registration/Continental Breakfast/Networking

8:30 a.m.          

Welcome

Presentation of the Mary Todd

Child Advocate of the Year Award

Concurrent Workshops

9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

v  Memphis City Schools Mentoring Program

v  Gangs Are a Lifestyle

v  Teen Gambling and Violence

v  Analogue Parents Raising Digital Children 

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon

v  Gang Awareness

v  Effective Bullying Prevention

v  Threat Assessment: The Tip of the Pyramid

v  Truancy

12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.    Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.   Community Café, Facilitator: Dr. Leon Caldwell