September 2007
Date: September 30–October 2, 2007
Location: San Antonio, TX
Title: National Summit on Your City’s Families
Sponsor: National League of Cities
Description: The 2007 Summit is a nationwide gathering of municipal leaders and their school and community partners for two days of learning, networking, and team-building. The 2007 Summit offers local leaders the opportunity to learn first-hand how other communities are successfully solving key problems and making their cities better places for families to live and children to thrive.
Web site: http://www.nlc.org/iyef/yefsummit.aspx
October 2007
Date: October 1–2, 2007
Location: Anaheim, CA
Title: 2007 School Wellness Conference
Sponsor: California School Boards Association, California Department of Education, and California Department of Health Services
Description: The 2007 School Wellness Conference is a statewide effort to improve the learning environments and overall healthy eating and physical education of public school children in California. The conference will highlight best practices and resources, model program workshops, sample district policies that promote health on school campuses, and strategies that help schools succeed in implementing and evaluating their local school wellness policy.
Web site: http://www.csba.org/apps/swc/Default.aspx
Date: October 3–5, 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Title: 8th National Conference on Preventing Crime: Helping Build Safer Communities
Sponsor: National Crime Prevention Council
Description: The 8th National Conference on Preventing Crime will feature three keynote addresses and more than 65 training sessions in the topical areas of crime prevention for business, partnering with government and law enforcement, promoting crime prevention and personal safety basics, protecting children and youth, leadership in crime prevention, and emerging crime trends. The conference will attract attendees from across the United States and from foreign countries, and from the fields of law enforcement, crime prevention, loss prevention, criminal justice, the military, youth services, education, nonprofit organizations, and social services.
Web site: http://www.ncpc.org/training/National_Conference.php
Date: October 10–12, 2007
Location: Palm Springs, CA
Title: National Conference on Truancy
Sponsor: California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance (CASCWA) and the National Truancy Prevention Association (NTPA)
Description: The 2007 National Conference on Truancy will feature presentations on topics such as truancy prevention, court intervention and follow up, and truancy laws and protocol. Sessions will focus on proven methodologies and cost-free practical ideas to combat truancy in your community.
Web site: http://www.cascwa.org
Date: October 18, 2007 NEW!
Location: New York, NY
Title: Double Jeopardy: Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders in Young People
Sponsor: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
Description: This CASA conference will bring together the leading researchers and practitioners at the intersection of mental health disorders and substance abuse to explore the issue in detail. Since this conference is intended to be multi- and cross-disciplinary in nature, it will assemble researchers, physicians, policymakers, educators, administrators, members of the press, executives of foundations and corporations, and persons in recovery and engage them in interactive panel discussions designed to get at the root of the problem of the comorbidity of substance abuse and mental health disorders in young people.
Web site: http://www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/templates/Home.aspx
Date: October 19–20, 2007
Location: Chestnut Hill, MA
Title: Diversity Challenge 2007: The Intersections between Race and Culture in Scientific Research and Mental Health Service Delivery for Children, Adolescents, and Families
Sponsor: Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture
Description: The Institute attempts to solicit, design, and disseminate effective interventions with a proactive, practical focus. Each year the Institute addresses a racial or cultural issue that could benefit from a pragmatic, scholarly, or grassroots focus through its Diversity Challenge conference. The theme of Diversity Challenge 2007 is the examination of research, interventions, and strategies that have addressed the integration of race and ethnic culture in the lives of children, adolescents, and families in the United States.
Web site: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/isprc/conference.htm
Date: October 19–21, 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Title: ASCD Conference on Teaching and Learning: Connecting Instruction and Assessment
Sponsor: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Description: The 2007 Conference on Teaching and Learning allows teachers, staff developers, principals, and administrators the opportunity to explore the complexities of assessments and learn how schools are succeeding at raising student achievement levels. The Conference includes various all-day sessions such as “Classroom Assessment Practices that Enhance Learning,” “Teaching Styles and Strategies for Closing the Mathematics Achievement Gap,” and “Improving Student Learning with Standards and Assessment.”
Web site: http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/07FallConf%20Preview.pdf
Date: October 21–23, 2007
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Title: NASDSE 2007 Annual Conference and Business Meeting
Sponsor: National Association of State Directors of Special Education
Web site: http://www.nasdse.org/events4.cfm
Date: October 21–25, 2007
Location: New York, NY
Title: 97th Annual Conference
Sponsor: International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention (IATDP)
Description: The 97th Annual Conference will provide attendees the opportunity to learn how colleagues throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom engage their students to attend school and graduate through workshops on best practices, emerging technology, and large group session speakers.
Web site: http://www.iatdp.org/conference2007.html
Date: October 25–27, 2007 NEW!
Location: Orlando, FL
Title: What Works In Schools: Sustaining a National Community of Practice on Collaborative School Behavioral Health
Sponsor: Center for School Mental Health (CSMH) in collaboration with the IDEA Partnership
Description: The 12th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health will offer keynote addresses, discussion groups, and workshop sessions that focus on implementing a full continuum of effective mental health promotion and intervention, collaborative family-school-community system approaches, strategies for fully involving diverse stakeholders, enhancing quality assessment, and advancing successful advocacy and policy change.
Web site: http://csmh.umaryland.edu/conf_meet/AnnualConference/index.html
Date: October 25–27, 2007
Location: Orlando, FL
Title: Annual Conference for Advancing School Mental Health
Sponsor: Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action (CSMHA)
Description: The Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health is sponsored by the Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action (CSMHA) in collaboration with the IDEA Partnership, housed at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). The Conference is the nation's premiere school mental health conference and offers numerous opportunities to network and learn more about best practice in school mental health.
Web site: http://csmha.umaryland.edu/conf_meet/AnnualConference/index.html
Date: October 27–31, 2007
Location: Louisville, KY
Title: 19th Annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference
Sponsor: National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N)
Description: The NDPC/N serves as a clearinghouse on issues related to dropout prevention and offers strategies designed to increase the graduation rate in America’s schools. The 19th Annual Conference will feature presentations on topics such as truancy, juvenile justice, service-learning, English as a Second Language, and cooperative education.
Web site: http://www.dropoutprevention.org/conferen/conferen.htm
Date: October 29–31, 2007
Location: Washington, D.C.
Title: The National Conference on Safe Schools and Communities 2007
Sponsor: The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Description: The conference is intended to be a forum for debate about youth development and making schools safer, while encouraging partnerships among public, private, and not-for-profit enterprises. It will serve as a setting to exchange the most recent scientific findings and evidence-based practices in school violence prevention; encourage outcome-oriented research and improve the transfer to evidence-based practices; and highlight community collaborations. Participants will include violence prevention practitioners at all levels, including teachers, school psychologists and mental health experts, social workers and counselors, school administrators and boards, community organizations and youth service agencies, law enforcement and law related educators, court administrators, researchers and state education agencies.
Web site: http://gwired.gwu.edu/hamfish/AnnualConference/2007/
Date: October 31–November 4, 2007
Location: Nashville, TN
Title: Annual Fall Conference
Sponsor: Council of the Great City Schools
Description: The Annual Fall Conference is held in a selected member city and is a cooperative effort of the city school district and the Council. Featured speakers and events revolve around a designated theme and are interwoven with the unique characteristics of the site. The Conference provides an opportunity for information exchange, as well as for the various Council committees and subcommittees to meet to determine objectives and strategies for the coming year.
Web site: http://www.cgcs.org/calendar/index.html
Date: October 31–November 4, 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
Title: Leadership for Change: A Nation Without Dropouts
Sponsor: Communities in Schools (CIS)
Description: This conference will allow experts from both inside and out of the CIS network to share ideas, celebrate successes, and find new inspiration. Its content is designed to help practitioners and leaders from the youth development sector increase the effectiveness of their work with youth. It will feature information on building sustainable programs for at-risk youth, national best practice study findings, and dialogue with other community development leaders.
Web site: http://www.cisnationalconference.com/index.php
November 2007
Date: November 1–3, 2007
Location: Cambridge, MA
Title: Closing the Achievement Gap: Linking Families, Schools, and Communities
Sponsor: Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Family Research Project
Description: This institute unites school, district, and community leaders as they explore a “complementary learning” approach that forges connections among schools, families, out-of-school time programs, early childhood programs, community organizations, and other agencies and institutions. Participants explore how efforts to promote learning for all children work best when school and non-school supports are intentionally linked with each other at multiple levels and with multiple stakeholders. Specifically, participants learn how they can build complementary learning systems that enable children’s readiness to enter school, and their readiness to exit as productive workers, citizens, and parents.
Web site: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~ppe/k12/programs/cag.html
Date: November 3–7, 2007
Location: Washington, D.C.
Title: APHA 135 Annual Meeting and Expo
Sponsor: American Public Health Association
Description: The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health. Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers.
Web site: http://www.apha.org/meetings/
Date: November 5–8, 2007
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Title: Best Practices in Bullying Prevention
Sponsor: International Bullying Prevention Association
Description: Major goals of the conference are to disseminate the latest developments in research and to facilitate an ongoing exchange about issues related to best practices of bullying prevention by individuals with different experiences and viewpoints and to increase public understanding of bullying and its impact. Conference sessions will focus on providing current research based information and the impact of this information on bullying prevention and intervention plans for schools and individuals who are impacted by bullying. The conference will bring together educators, mental health professionals, law enforcement officers, attorneys, researchers, parents, and others.
Web site: http://www.stopbullyingworld.com
Date: November 5–9, 2007
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Title: Safe Schools Interagency Team Planning Program (STP)
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and Fox Valley Technical College
Description: This team program is designed for school administrators, chief law enforcement executives, and other key decision makers from agencies that serve children and youths in the community. The purpose of the program is to facilitate those teams in planning and implementing a program of change to improve the overall safety of their community schools. The general theme of this program is to work collectively to develop more effective policies and practices to accurately identify and manage human safety risks in the school and community environment.
Web site: http://dept.fvtc.edu/ojjdp/stp.html
Date: November 7–10, 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Title: 2007 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
Sponsor: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Description: The NAEYC Annual Conference is filled with sessions designed to provide practical information to take home and use immediately. You will reflect on new research and its potential to improve teaching, learn about team building and staff retention, and explore new strategies for preparing early childhood professionals. Presenters will cover a wide range of issues, including early literacy, social and emotional development, infant care, support for families, and school readiness.
Web site: http://www.annualconference.naeyc.org/
Date: November 8, 2007
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Title: Assessing Risk in Juveniles
Sponsor: The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida
Description: In this workshop, we will cast light on recent trends in violent behavior among youth—both in and out of school; discuss fundamental differences between risk assessments for adults and for adolescents; and describe distinctions between different types of violence and different patterns of violent offending. We will distill, in a practical way, twenty years of research on violence risk factors in youth, and describe a risk assessment model that gives you a framework within which to apply them. Finally, we will briefly examine the latest structured assessment instruments for assessing violence risk in juveniles, and how they have the potential to improve risk assessment practice.
Web site: http://mhlp.fmhi.usf.edu/web/mhlp/tdetail.cfm?id=39
Date: November 8–10, 2007
Location: Rochester, NY
Title: Transforming Relationships: For the Common Good
Sponsor: Search Institute
Description: The 2007 Healthy Communities–Healthy Youth Conference will bring together people of various backgrounds who share the common goal of working together to create healthy communities for children and youth through asset building. Sessions at the conference will describe projects that have built positive relationships across traditional divides of race, gender, class, and geography. Both youth and adults who are involved in positive youth development efforts are encouraged to attend—this includes leaders from businesses, community initiatives and faith-based communities, educators, counselors, family-serving professionals, health-care professionals, parents, and prevention specialists.
Web site: http://www.search-institute.org/hchy/
Date: November 12–16, 2007
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Title: School Resource Officer Leadership Program
Sponsor: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Description: The purpose of this program is to demonstrate standards of excellence and best practices in the enhanced role of school resource officers as leaders in planning and maintaining a safe school environment. Topics covered include: leadership role of the SRO in developing and implementing a safe school plan, critical incident planning, school security, information sharing, identification and utilization of risk and protective factors, and legal issues.
Web site: http://dept.fvtc.edu/ojjdp/sro.html
