Community Events

FCP to Host Prevention Learning Institute

Mark your calendars now for the second in a series of Learning Institutes on prevention hosted by Family Connection Partnership in August. "Prevention Redefined: Developing Strategies to Create Safe and Health Communities" is a four-hour workshop to be held at several sites across the state. County collaborative chairs and coordinators are invited to attend, as well as human services agency staff and regional and state partners.

An interdisciplinary, cross-agency state team representing the Department of Family and Children Services, Mental Health, Public Health, and Family Connection Partnership has designed the workshop. Learn how to:

• Transform and enrich our approaches to helping people and building communities within a framework free of symptoms, remediation and reactivity.
  
  
• Emphasize strategy development founded on a prevention orientation aimed at realizing tangible and positive results in our families, classrooms, workplace, churches, neighborhoods, and wherever people gather to make decisions that affect the lives of others.

Attendance at the first workshop held last January is not required in order to attend this Learning Institute.

Learning Objectives
Participants will focus on creating conditions of community well-being by:

• Identifying key elements of building effective prevention capacity.
  
• Using tools for assessing and promoting community prevention readiness.
  
• Identifying key components of an effective prevention strategy.
  
• Using integrated planning and evaluation that targets strategy outcomes.

Dates and Sites
Aug. 19 in Camilla
Aug. 20 in Waycross
Aug. 21 in Macon
Aug. 25 in Calhoun
Aug. 26 in Statesboro
Aug. 28 in Athens

All sessions are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Specific workshop locations with driving directions and registration information will be provided soon.

Event Briefs

U.S. Department of Education seeks input for new National Education Technology Plan. The Department of Education seeks input from educational stakeholders to help craft a new National Education Technology Plan, required by the No Child Left Behind law. Individuals and organizations are requested to communicate their top issues, priorities, concerns, and barriers they feel should be addressed for technology to improve teaching in the 21st Century. Visit the National Education Technology Plan's Web site at: www.NationalEdTechPlan.org.

July

Quality Education in the General Education Classroom for Students with Significant Disabilities. TASH is providing a teleconference on July 2 to discuss the topic: "Achieving a Quality Education for Our Sons and Daughters with Significant Disabilities in the General Education Environment." The teleconference is for special education and general education teachers, administrators, related services providers, parents, advocates and others. The speakers are all leaders in the development and implementation of quality supports in general education classrooms for students with significant disabilities. Speakers include people with disabilities, university professors, advocates, attorneys, and parents. For more details or to register, visit www.tash.org/tc03ed or call (410) 828-8274, ext. 0.

The Girls Inc. Conference will be held July 16 - 18, Omaha, Neb. For details call (402) 457-4676.

Looking Ahead

The 2nd Biennial 2003 Georgia Youth Summit will be held Sept. 20 - 22 at the Rock Eagle 4-H Conference Center in Eatonton. The Summit brings together nearly 1,000 youth in the 10th and 11th grades with adults to envision the future of Georgia and take action to make it happen. Each county receives full scholarships for four youth and one adult to attend the Summit through funding provided by the governor and General Assembly. The event is coordinated through the University of Georgia 4-H Youth program and the Georgia Rural Development Council. For student applications visit www.georgia4h.org and follow the links for "What Can I Do in 4-H," "Activities and Events," and "Youth and Rural Georgia." Or visit www.ruralgeorgia.org.

The 2003 Family Connection Conference will be held Oct. 19 - 21 at Jekyll Island Georgia. For more information visit www.gafcp.org/comm/fcconf.htm.