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Conference Speakers
Past speakers at the Conference on Youth have included:
Geoffrey Canada
Dr. David Walsh
James Garbarino
Crystall Kuykendall
James Vollbracht
Stedman Graham
Erin Gruwell
Jim Conway
Michael Dorn
Flora Sanchez
Robin Karr-Morse
Dr. Fred Jones
Salome Thomas-El
Victor Rivera
Michael Clark
Scott Larson
and many many more.
To select our speakers, we ask for counsel from our Community Advisory Board, made up of representatives from community agencies, who helps vet speakers. We also ask for feedback from past participants, and will consider referrals from anyone in our community willing to share ideas!
Have a favorite speaker you would like us to bring back for our 20th Annual Conference on Youth? Let us know! In addition to new faces, we'd like to bring back some "favorites" from conferences past in honor of our twentieth year, October 1, 2009.
Annual Conference on Youth - Overview
The flagship training for Great KIDS make Great COMMUNITIES is the Annual Conference on Youth. The Annual Conference on Youth emerged from Judge Pratt’s desire to ensure that all agencies working with children and families operated with the same strengths-based philosophy the court espoused. In 1989, the Court offered its first Annual Conference on Youth on IPFW’s campus.
Since then the Conference has grown to over 600 participants, and has moved locations to the Grand Wayne Center. This yearly training, sponsored in part by the Foellinger Foundation, brings in top professionals in the field of youth and family services to train area workers on strengths-based practices.
Click here to learn more about this year's Annual Conference on Youth.