Training Opportunities
Training Opportunities by Date
Events with Variable Dates/Locations
Other Resources
Training Opportunities by Date
March 2010
March 26, 2010
Charlotte 5th Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference
This one-day conference for case managers, social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, middle and high school teachers, counselors and administrators, mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, health and human service practitioners, other health care professionals, law enforcement personnel, community activists, clergy, faith based organizations, families, and teens will use interactive exercises to help participants recognize and break down barriers that prevent adults from connecting with at-risk youth. The conference will enable participants to recognize which youth are at risk for engaging in violent behavior by learning about the individual, family, and community factors that define at-risk youth; recognize the obstacles they and others allow to interfere with connecting with youth; and learn specific ways to connect with youth.
April 2010
April 7-9, 2010
Blueprints Conference
This conference, designed to disseminate science-based information on youth violence, delinquency, and drug prevention programs, will offer continuing education and networking opportunities for community prevention advocates, department heads of agencies responsible for violence and drug prevention efforts, state and local government leaders responsible for prevention funding and initiatives, leaders of criminal justice systems, and program implementers. The conference will motivate the violence prevention field to adopt evidence-based programs and provide support, guidance, and tools to help practitioners implement these programs successfully in their own communities. Attendees will hear from practitioners in the field and be given the opportunity to network with others in the industry. The conference will set a foundation for future collaboration among evidence-based programs.
April 8, 2010
9th Annual Youth Violence Prevention Conference: Justice System Responses to Juveniles
This one-day conference for professionals who work with at-risk youth, teachers, counselors, public health workers, probation officers, youth advocates, law enforcement officers, or anyone interested in the welfare of children and youth will explore the treatment of juveniles by the justice system. Speakers will examine the underlying assumptions of the need for a separate juvenile justice system, the interactions of juveniles with law enforcement officers and how these interactions shape subsequent attitudes towards the police and the justice system, and the extent to which the juvenile justice system disproportionately arrests and commits minority youth.
April 14-16, 2010
2010 Joint Annual Meeting on STIPDA and CDC Core State Injury Grantees
The theme of the 2010 annual meeting of the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association and CDC core state injury grantees will be "Injury & Violence Prevention at a Crossroads: Turning Challenges into Opportunities”. By building unique partnerships, integrating diverse approaches, and optimizing existing resources, injury and violence prevention programs can continue to protect the health of communities, even in the face of economic adversity. Throughout this meeting, participants will share experiences, strategies, and best practices that will help injury and violence prevention programs continue to persevere and turn challenges into innovative opportunities.
April 15-16, 2010
Third National Student Safety and Security Conference
This conference will involve leaders representing various sectors of society to model a community process to help eradicate all forms of school violence such as shootings, bullying, dating violence, gang activity, and catastrophic events such as school mass murder. Studies presented in this conference will present significant findings regarding incidents of school violence, their cost to society, and their influence on the local prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery process. Table-top exercises will encourage extended audience participation and explore effective methods of communication, coordination, and collaboration at the local level. Topics in the prevention area will include zero-tolerance messages, gang apparel and student dress codes, and mentoring.
April 15-16, 2010
Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Training Workshop
MAPP is a community-driven strategic planning tool for improving community health. During this training, sponsored by the National Association of County and City Health Officials, participants will learn how to use the results of the local instrument of the National Public Health Performance Standards for performance improvement using the MAPP model.
April 18-21, 2010
2nd Annual National Forum on Dropout Prevention Strategies for Native and Tribal Communities
The forum will feature nationally known keynote speakers as well as professional educators. Presentations will emphasize a variety of strategies that work with native students who are at risk of dropping out of school before high school graduation. The following pre-institute workshops will also be offered: Tribal Truancy Code Exchange Forum and Evidence-based, Innovative Curriculum to Promote Positive Peer Pressure Among Tribal Youth.
April 19-21, 2010
National City Afterschool Summit
The third National City Afterschool Summit will highlight and promote leadership to create citywide systems of quality afterschool programs for children and youth. Municipal leaders attending the summit will have the opportunity to share ideas and strategies with more than 2,500 afterschool providers, advocates, and community leaders. The summit will offer city officials and their business partners the opportunity to learn how to make the case for the importance of expanded learning opportunities in improving young people's workforce skills and contributing to economic development; strengthen ties with business leaders to create a unified vision for afterschool; network and learn from peers about city strategies for afterschool investment, financing and sustainability, and innovative partnerships; hear from national experts about the future of federal and state support for afterschool; celebrate the efforts of mayors, council members, and business leaders who are champions for quality afterschool programs; hear from Congressional leaders who are leaders in helping to make afterschool programs a national priority; and recognize local officials nominated as state champions for their afterschool programs with an award.
June 2010
June 1-4, 2010
18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research
This meeting will present the latest in prevention science from across international regions in the areas of epidemiology, etiology, preventive intervention trials, demonstration projects, policy research, natural experiments, program evaluations, clinical trials, prevention-related basic research, pre-intervention studies, efficacy and effectiveness trials, population trials, and studies of the diffusion/dissemination of science-based prevention. Relevant focus areas will include mental health/mental disorders, family conflict, substance abuse and addiction, violence, delinquency, academic failure, dropping-out of school, and policy-based interventions. The conference will offer more than 300 organized symposia, roundtable discussions/scientific dialogues, and paper presentations.
June 14-16, 2010
National Institute of Justice Conference 2010
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.
June 25-27, 2010
4th Annual National Conference on Girl Bullying and Other Forms of Relational Aggression
This conference for school counselors, classroom teachers, special education personnel, school administrators, law enforcement personnel, parents, clergy, and other professionals working with young people will provide attendees with research findings, insights, practical strategies, programs, and resources related to bullying with a primary focus on relational aggression in girls. Programs featured at the conference will offer attendees a wide variety of best practices, research findings, and practical resources of the highest quality.
July 2010
July 5-9, 2010
2010 Texas School-Based Law Enforcement Conference
This conference will provide an opportunity for school administrators, teachers, parents, and school-based law enforcement officers, including school resource officers, to receive training on best practices in school safety and security. The conference will focus on topics such as emergency operations planning and gang awareness/intervention. A topic of particular interest to officers at colleges and universities will be available at each breakout session. In addition, the conference will offer a track for higher education law enforcement officers.
July 6-8, 2010
Center for Social and Emotional Education 13th Annual Summer Institute
This three-day institute is designed to support school teams, districts, and states, as well as other school, family, and community leaders, in developing school climate improvement plans to promote safe, caring, and civil schools that support positive youth development, democratic school communities, student learning/achievement, and up-stander behavior (or the inclination and ability to say “no” to bully-victim behavior). The institute will provide important research-based guidelines and resources for school teams and individuals to reflect on current practice and develop new plans to promote safe and civil schools and measure and improve school climate. Research shows that when schools engage in these processes over time, student achievement, civic engagement, positive youth development, and teacher retention significantly increases and school violence decreases.
July 13-15, 2010
Fourth Annual New York Gang Investigators Association Gang Training Conference
This training conference will provide the most current and reliable street gang information available to association members. Speaker presentations will include the recognition and identification of Latino gangs and gangs in schools. Special guest speakers will focus on intervention and prevention strategies for at-risk youth.
July 14-16, 2010
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual 2010 Conference
This conference will enhance the ability of participants to create and build upon a forward-looking vision of local public health through disease prevention interventions and wellness promotion, elimination of health inequities among individuals and communities, and expanded leadership capacity within local health departments. The conference will achieve this by providing action-oriented sessions that enable attendees to describe innovative, evidence-based practices, programs, policies, and systems that advance both the physical and mental health of individuals and the wellness of communities; outline proven and ground-breaking strategies that local health departments and their partners can implement to eliminate inequities in the distribution of disease, illness, and death; identify effective strategies to strengthen the leadership skills necessary for local health officials to position themselves in the leadership forefront to advance a forward-looking vision of local public health; and apply the findings of cutting-edge research to local public health practice in the areas of disease prevention interventions and wellness promotion, elimination of health inequalities among individuals and communities, and enhanced leadership capacity within local health departments.
August 2010
August 1-6, 2010
Summer Institute on Youth Violence Prevention
This training opportunity for doctoral students in the social sciences or related fields, to be held at the University of California, Berkeley, will offer training by professionals with expertise in various areas of Youth Violence Prevention (YVP) that graduate students might not otherwise be exposed to in their own university environments and stimulate discussion and research ideas in the area of YVP that will be relevant to the graduate students' future plans for research and evaluation in the area of YVP. Training will focus on the prevalence of youth violence and sources of data, particularly in immigrant communities in the United States; intervention design, methods, implementation, and evaluation; family, culture, immigration, and youth violence; and funding sources and how to obtain funding for research in etiology and prevention of youth violence.
August 16-18, 2010
2010 National Gang Crime Research Center 13th International Gang Specialist 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 will allow trainees to network with others in their special area of interest, and it will have the organizational strength of diversity among the trainers. In addition, numerous specialized training tracks will be offered for attendees registering for certification. These tracks will include gang prevention skills, gang problems in K-12 schools, faith-based programs for gang intervention, and gang and violence prevention for school administrators.
Events with Variable Dates/Locations
Public Health Prevention Service Training and Service Fellowship
The Public Health Prevention Service (PHPS) is a 3-year training and service fellowship for master’s level public health professionals. The fellowship focuses on public health program management and provides experience in program planning, implementation, and evaluation through specialized hands-on training and mentorship at CDC, and in state and local health agencies. PHPS is requesting applications from public health organizations for 2-year field assignments in program management for up to 25 prevention specialists. Field assignments will last from October 2010 to October 2012. Eligible health agencies or organizations include state and local health departments, U.S. territorial health departments, Indian Health Service area offices, tribal organizations, and other health-related organizations such as community-based organizations, foundations, and universities that have an active collaboration with a state or local health department. The deadline for the two-page letter of intent (LOI) is January 15, 2010. Organizations with accepted LOIs will be invited to submit a full application by April 6, 2010 detailing the assignment.
Breakthrough Strategies To Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop
This professional development workshop for teachers, counselors, justice and social workers, mental health staff workers, and others who work with youth will provide innovative, more effective strategies for dealing with school failure, truancy, dropping out, work refusal, violence, delinquency, bad attitudes, depression, and more among youth aged five to 18 years old.
MENTOR-VIP
This global mentoring program for injury and violence prevention developed by the World Health Organization will be accepting applications between February 13 and May 15, 2009 for mentees to be mentored during 2009-2010. 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.
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families Audioconferences
These free, hour-long audioconferences offered by the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families will allow participants to listen by telephone to talk-show style discussions between Institute staff, national policy experts, and city officials on best practices and key opportunities for municipal leadership on behalf of children, youth, and families. Listeners will have opportunities to question panelists during each call. Audioconference titles include “The Mayors’ Action Challenge for Children and Families,” “Neighborhood-Based Approaches to Improving Child and Family Well-Being,” and “Ceasefire: An In-Depth Look at Using Street Outreach Workers to Stop the Epidemic of Youth Violence.”
Other Resources
Administration for Children and Families
Conferences and events on the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
CDC events and injury-related conferences and meetings worldwide
Preventing Violence through Education, Networking, and Technical Assistance (PREVENT)
Education, networking, and technical assistance to help multi-organizational teams prevent violence before it starts