Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Changing Families

Healthy Families, Healthy Children: What Does It Take?

The third in a three-part series - Changing Families and the Challenge for Urban Ministry: From Surviving to Thriving

Saturday, April 14, 2007
9:00 am - 2:30 pm


At-Risk Children: What are the challenges for this generation and in what ways can communities of faith intervene to create a more hopeful future?

PLENARY SPEAKERS

MARCIA J. CARLSON
Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University; Professional Interests: Family structure and parenting, Child and adolescent wellbeing, Social policy, Poverty and inequality, Father involvement; Current research: Family Structure, Parenting and Child Wellbeing

VICTORIA YANCEY
School District of Philadelphia, Community Relations and Faith Initiatives; district's liaison to families whose children die or are seriously injured; former therapist with degrees in education and counseling, spent more than 20 years in the school district as a counselor and assistant principal

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