The Youth At Risk

10th Annual Conference

will be held

Wednesday, June 9th 2010

8:00am-3:30pm

At Endicott College in Beverly, MA

 

The Morning Keynote speaker will be Ross Greene, Ph.D.

The afternoon guest speaker will be YAR founder, Rev. Mike Duda.

Full Program coming soon...

	Keynote Speaker Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving approach.  He is the author of the highly acclaimed books The Explosive Child and Lost at School.  His research has been funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group.  He consults extensively to general and special education schools, inpatient and residential facilities, and systems of juvenile detention, and lectures widely throughout the world. Check out Dr. Greene's Lives in Balance website! It is chock full of information and tutorials, www.livesinthebalance.org.

Rev. Michael J. Duda, is Senior Pastor at the First Church in Wenham. Mike has spent a lifetime working with kids and became an Ordained Minister with the United Presbyterian Church in 1979. Mike spent 22 years as Executive Director of the Anchorage Inc. in Beverly- a residential home for at-risk teens. He has also served as the Interim Senior Minister at the Second Congregational Church in Beverly and the Director of Community Programs and Chaplain at Endicott College.

About the Conference

The Youth at Risk Conference was founded by Rev. Mike Duda and the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) in 2000. It was developed in response to the need for collaboration and coordination among the many providers of health services to at-risk youth in and around Essex County. For the past 9 years, Youth At Risk has worked to advance greater sharing and collaboration among youth services providers, provide training workshops on many youth services, and to increase awareness of existing resources. The conference is an incredible opportunity to tap the wealth of expertise in Essex County around the topic of youth at risk. It continues to be a one-of-a-kind and most anticipated annual event.

Who Should Attend

The YAR Conference is geared primarily towards individuals in Essex County working with and caring for youth in a number of settings – family, community, school, religious, healthcare, human service, recreational, etc. Attendees include:  

• Social workers
• Psychologists
• Youth counselors
• Teachers
• School adjustment counselors
• Guidance counselors
• Community and public health workers
• Program managers
• Agency and organization CEOs
• Volunteers
  

Day of Conference

The day includes continental breakfast, 2 breakout workshop sessions, lunch, keynote speakers and peer networking. Credentialing is offered.