National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

Training Opportunities

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• 5th National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence
  This conference, sponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, will provide professional education on the latest research and innovative health prevention and clinical responses to domestic violence. The conference will examine the long-term health impacts, co-occurring issues, and responses related to victims, children, perpetrators, and communities affected by domestic violence; describe the latest physical and mental health findings related to risk factors for, effects of, and clinical and health services prevention, identification, and response to domestic violence; highlight innovative research, practices, programs, and partnerships between health management systems, providers, public health and Medicaid programs, legal systems, social service agencies, and domestic violence advocates that improve patient safety and health status at the local state, national, and international levels; and emphasize prevention and intervention strategies relevant to diverse cultures, races, classes, ethnicity, religions, physical abilities, ages, genders, sexual identities, geographic settings, and communities.
• 2008 11th International Gang Specialist Training Program
  This training program, sponsored by the National Gang Crime Research Center, will allow participants to choose from among 125 sessions on a range of gang issues. Topics include the use of community collaboration as a prevention and intervention tool to address gang-involved youth and at-risk youth; the implementation of a statewide gang intelligence database; the evaluation of gang prevention, intervention, and law enforcement initiatives; the use of environmental design strategies in communities to “design out” gang presence and reduce violence; the development of a comprehensive community-based approach to reducing gang violence; the incorporation of gang intervention efforts and other school security/safety issues into one plan; the collaboration between the faith community and law enforcement to address gang awareness, prevention, and intervention; and the identification of and response to Internet-based bullying incidents.
• 2008 California Youth Conference and Teen Leadership Training Institute
  This conference will provide an opportunity to bring young people and their adult allies together from across the state to learn from each other about the power of youth leadership. The conference will highlight issues affecting young people and their communities as well as strategies that young people are using to help create positive social change.
• Youth-Adult Partnerships: From Theory to Practice
  This Web training and teleconference explores the benefits and barriers to developing youth-adult partnerships to address teen victimization. This Web training also includes an introduction to the theory of Positive Youth Development and how youth-adult partnerships build protective factors for youth. Participants gain practical advice for developing and maintaining successful youth-adult partnerships from a youth and an adult who have successfully worked together to address teen victimization.
• 9th National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention
  The National Children’s Advocacy Center, which will host this conference, is devoted to leading the fight against child abuse and exploitation. Workshop topics will include tips for making schools safer for victims and youngsters with abuse-reactive behavior, the use of capacity strengthening to help girls make and keep friends as an antidote to bullying, an introduction to the Child Exploitation Community Intervention Project, the role of the Internet in child sexual exploitation, cyberbullying, the implementation of a community-wide child sexual abuse prevention program, and resilience in children who experience childhood abuse.
• 2008 Virginia School and Campus Safety Training Forum
  This forum, sponsored by the Virginia Center for School Safety, is designed for school and campus safety practitioners. Keynote presenters will address topics such as understanding the state of school safety in Virginia, preventing violence in schools and communities, and overcoming the risk factors for gang involvement. Breakout session topics will include the engagement of at-risk youth and their families; a school and campus risk and threat assessment tool; a local, free, school-wide approach to bullying; Internet safety; and prevention through information.
• 5th Annual Conference of the Community Builders Network of Virginia
  The Network is committed to increasing awareness concerning the need to provide programs and activities that strengthen youth and their families. The focus of the Network includes the prevention of violence, academic failure, and other at-risk behaviors. This conference will address topics such as prevention ethics, cultural sensitivity, state-wide networking, research-based programs, community assessment and planning, the design of effective program strategies for youth, and program evaluation.
• 2008 National School Safety Conference
  This conference, sponsored by the School Safety Advocacy Council, is the largest national school safety conference in the United States. Conference topics include online threats to children and schools, a "CARE"ing approach to violence prevention, bullying and its impact on campus safety, the identification of the potentially violent student, and the de-escalation of juvenile aggression in schools.
• 27th Annual UC Davis National Child Abuse and Neglect Conference
  This conference and accompanying institutes are designed for professionals involved in the investigation, evaluation, and treatment of abused and neglected children. The conference is planned to advance knowledge and practice standards of professionals in the fields of medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, and criminal and juvenile justice.
• Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence National Workshop
  ACT is a research-based program for professionals who want to help families and communities protect children and youth from violence. The workshop is intended for those who work with families and have organizational support to implement a program and those who work as staff or consultants with agencies and organizations that provide educational, social, or mental health services to families and children. Workshop topics include the roots and consequences of violence in children’s lives; prevention skills such as anger management, social problem solving, positive discipline, and media literacy; and strategies for program implementation and evaluation.
• 39th Annual School Safety Conference
  This conference, sponsored by the National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers, is designed for anyone tasked with, or interested in, safety and security in a school or school district, including security personnel, school/campus resource officers, supervisors, chiefs/directors of security, teachers, administrators, and school board members. Speakers will address issues such as putting school threat assessment research to practical application, applying the lessons learned from school shootings, using the approach of the Philadelphia Public Schools to deal with the persistent problem of truancy, understanding bullying and harassment, and using practical suggestions for handling bullying and harassment in schools and classrooms.
• 2008 National Mentoring Summit
  This summit is a gathering of elected officials, mentor coalition members, business leaders, mentor programs staff, educators, celebrities, and youth. Meeting participants will learn from mentoring experts, as well as business and civic leaders, about the benefits of mentoring and the latest developments in the field. The summit will also build skills for mentoring program professionals and demonstrate how communities, faith-based groups, and businesses can get involved in supporting young people through mentoring. There will be keynote speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and exhibitors providing learning opportunities for participants.
• 20th Annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference
  This conference will offer workshops, seminars, and carousel sessions in the areas of curriculum; assessment; instruction; student, family, and community support; planning and organization; school culture; professional training; and leadership. Workshops will feature skill-building and how-to kinds of presentations on one of the conference topics and incorporate active learning strategies in the delivery. Seminars will feature research-based demonstration projects on one of the conference topics. Carousel sessions will feature exemplary programs.
• 2008 Ready to Learn Conference: Helping Students Survive and Thrive
  This conference, created for educators who are dedicated to helping at-risk students achieve success, will present strategies for early identification, intervention, and dropout prevention. Conference sessions will include topics such as family and community collaboration, safety and violence prevention, best practices, and ways to engage at-risk students.
• 21st Annual Prevention Research Conference
  The theme of this conference, sponsored by the National Prevention Network, is driving successful outcomes in prevention research. Participants will gain knowledge from nationally recognized researchers and practitioners who are using research to drive successful outcomes for prevention programming. They will also have the opportunity to network with leaders from the federal agencies supporting prevention, including SAMHSA/CSAP, ONDCP, NIDA, NIAAA, OJJDP, and USDE as well as prevention professionals from around the country.
• 98th Annual Truancy, Dropout, and Delinquency Prevention Conference
  This conference will bring together teachers and other school personnel, social workers, child welfare professionals, health professionals, community agency service providers, law enforcement professionals, juvenile court personnel and judges, and legislators to encourage team building and recognize outstanding achievements in service to at-risk youth and families. In addition, participants will have an opportunity to share information about effective strategies, techniques, and programs in truancy, dropout, and delinquency prevention.
• 18th Annual CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conference—A Life-Course Perspective: Pathways for Improving Practice in Urban MCH
  This annual conference conducted by CityMatCH, a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments’ maternal and child health (MCH) programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United States, will focus on translating the research and knowledge base of the life course perspective into actions, programs, and policies at the local level. The conference will focus on the goals of disseminating science and information for improving urban MCH; providing knowledge, skills, and practices to address MCH issues; and networking and exchanging promising practices.
• Prevention Programs: Proven Strategies for Achieving Results
  In this interactive seminar sponsored by the International City/County Management Association, local elected officials, county chief administrators, and human services directors/health officers will learn how to inventory existing prevention programs and practices; establish an accountability system including data collection, mapping, and metrics; identify professional development topics; and develop strategic policy agenda. In addition, participants will find out about cutting edge performance measurement and management practices for the difficult to measure areas of prevention programs and gain a knowledge base to begin to establish a performance measurement program for our prevention programs in the social services arena. Small group exercises will give participants the opportunity to work with the tools and discuss with their peers how the tools might be adapted for use in their own jurisdictions.
• 9th Annual Kansas Governor’s Conference on Juvenile Justice
  This conference for attorneys, case workers, counselors, educational personnel, judges, law enforcement officers, mediators, parents, psychologists, social workers, therapists, and others interested in juvenile justice, crime reduction, and crime prevention will address prevention, intervention, community programs and services, and best practices in the area of juvenile justice. Tentative session topics include afterschool programming status, evidence-based practices and agency buy-in, Internet safety, and gangs.
• National Institute of Justice Conference 2008
  This conference will bring together criminal justice scholars, policy makers, and practitioners at the local, state, and federal levels to share findings from research and technology. The conference will showcase what works, what does not work, and what the research shows as promising, emphasizing the benefits to researchers and practitioners who work together to create effective evidence-based policies and practices. In addition, the conference will feature opportunities for practitioners and presenters to exchange ideas. Topics will include gang intervention and enforcement in Chicago, IL; factors that contribute to differences and strategies for enhancing adherence to a program model with regard to the Teens, Crime and Community Works program and the Gang Resistance Education and Training program; the impact that urban sprawl and infill development have on crime and the stability of communities; community characteristics that influence criminal behavior; findings and lessons learned from two youth gang research projects; new tools to stop child exploitation over the Internet; and promising programs for stopping the school-yard bully.
• International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference
  This conference provides researchers and scientist/practitioners from a broad array of disciplines, including criminal justice, medicine, and public health, the opportunity to come together for the purpose of sharing, integrating, and critiquing accumulated knowledge on family violence. Many sessions focus on methodological issues (more of interest to researchers), but there is also cutting-edge research on all aspects of family violence and victimization of children. There are three types of presentations that take place at the conference. The first is an invited program, where researchers present their latest findings or synthesize findings in the field. The second format is research presentations of approximately 20 minutes each. The final format is a poster format; poster sessions will run throughout the three-day conference.
• 2008 National Gang Crime Research Center 11th International Gang Training Conference
  This conference will provide trainees with an array of different professional gang training sessions so that they can tailor their training to issues that are most pertinent to them and their jurisdiction. It allows trainees to network with others in their special area of interest, and it has the organizational strength of diversity among the trainers. In addition, several specialized training tracks exist for attendees registering for Certification.
• Safe Schools, Successful Students Conference
  This conference, sponsored by the Kentucky School Boards Association and the Kentucky Center for School Safety, brings authorities in school safety to present on topics such as cyberbullying, drugs, shootings, drinking, and natural disasters. Educators and school boards across the nation continue to look for inspiration to create tools and plans to improve school safety, and this conference provides an opportunity for both.
• 18th Annual School Resource Officer/School Safety Conference
  This conference, sponsored by the National Association School Resource Officers, is designed for school resource officers (SROs), school district officers, school police officers, juvenile officers and detectives, school board members, DARE officers, GREAT officers, school administrators, SRO supervisors, and community oriented police units. Conference breakout topics include antibullying/character education, behavioral science, crime prevention through campus analysis, drug recognition, critical incident planning, Internet safety, legal issues, successful SRO and administrator partnerships, and successful community anticrime programs.
• White House Conferences on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
  The White House is hosting a series of regional conferences to continue its support for the work of effective faith-based and community social service programs. The events will provide participants with information about the government grants process and available funding opportunities, an overview of the legal responsibilities that come with the receipt of federal funds, and various grant writing tutorials. The conferences will also provide an opportunity to inform state and local officials about the agencies’ equal treatment regulations and central elements of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative. The conferences are co-hosted by the Departments of Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security; the Agency for International Development; and the Small Business Administration.
• 5th Annual International Bullying Prevention Association Conference
  This annual conference, which will be co-sponsored by the Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy and the Indiana Department of Education, will focus on the latest in bullying prevention and research. It is designed for school guidance counselors, administrators, teachers, school health educators, school social workers, school psychologists, school safety specialists, Safe and Drug-Free Coordinators, school resource officers, school attorneys, and law enforcement working with youth, student service directors, PTA/PTO members, children and family mental health counselors, school nurses, school board members, parents, extended day/after school staff, and prevention specialists. College students are also welcome. The association is accepting Requests to Present at this conference until May 23, 2008.
• MENTOR-VIP
  This global mentoring program for injury and violence prevention developed by the World Health Organization is accepting applications for mentees to be mentored during 2008-2009. A general orientation of the program is to initially target skills development needs among more junior practitioners in low- and middle-income countries. The skill categories targeted by MENTOR-VIP include planning and conducting research; designing, planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating evidence-based programs; developing and analyzing policy; imparting knowledge and skills; advocating and communicating; and ensuring funding support. Applicants who apply to the program indicate which categories of skills they would like to develop, and this, along with other information in their application profile, will be used to match the best suited applicants with one of the available mentors.
• Partnering To Prevent Youth Gang Violence: From Faith-Based and Community Organizations to Law Enforcement
  The 2008 Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) National Youth Gang Symposium will feature workshops designed to enhance efforts by law enforcement personnel, school personnel, faith-based and community organizations, policymakers, youth serving agencies, and others who are working together to combat youth gang problems. The symposium will offer innovative and successful gang-related programs and strategies, as well as provide the latest information on youth gang activities and trends from top national experts. The workshop and plenary sessions will offer cutting-edge information that participants can use immediately in their community.
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  CDC events and injury-related conferences and meetings worldwide
• Administration for Children and Families
  Conferences and events on the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities
• Preventing Violence through Education, Networking, and Technical Assistance (PREVENT)
  Education, networking, and technical assistance to help multi-organizational teams prevent violence before it starts
• Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence
  Information on violence prevention trainings and conferences
• National Alliance of Gang Investigators’ Associations
  List of gang conferences hosted by regional, state, and national criminal justice agencies, with corresponding links.
• New York Gang Investigators Association
  List of New York regional gang conferences that will assist participants in recognizing and enhancing their understanding of gangs and the potential issues that they bring to schools and communities.

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The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last Updated: 7/1/2008