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Family Re-Union 10: Back to the Future |
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Conference Program
FAMILY RE-UNION 10: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Accomplishments and Next Steps
November 19, 2001
Co-Sponsored by
The Children, Youth & Family Consortium of the University of Minnesota
and
The
Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public
Policy Studies
WELCOME 8:30-8:40
Bill Purcell, Mayor of Nashville
Gordon Gee, Chancellor,
Vanderbilt University
Andy Shookhoff, Co-Sponsor and
Associate Director,
The Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt
Institute for Public Policy Studies
Martha Farrell Erickson, Co-Sponsor
and Director, The Children, Youth
& Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota
OPENING REMARKS by Al Gore
8:40-9:00
“A
PLACE, A TOWN, A HOME”
9:00-9:10
A film collage produced by,
Jeffrey
Cole, Director, UCLA School of Communication Policy
“SHAKING
UP THE SYSTEM, VISIONARIES AND PIONEERS”
9:10-10:10
Al and Tipper Gore
lead a forum of nine representatives of previous conferences.
FAMILY RE-UNION, 1992
Linda
Money Langham, former head of “WE CARE”
Fairs, Manchester City Schools, Manchester,
TN
FAMILY
RE-UNION 2: REINVENTING FAMILY POLICY, 1993
Jim Bueermann, Chief of Police,
Director of Housing, Recreation, and
FAMILY
RE-UNION 3: THE ROLE OF MEN IN CHILDRENS’ LIVES,1994
Joe Jones, Jr., President,
The Center for Fathers, Families, and Workforce
Development, Baltimore, MD
FAMILY
RE-UNION 4: FAMILY AND MEDIA, 1995
David Walsh, Founder,
President and CEO, National Institute on Media and
FAMILY
RE-UNION 5: FAMILY AND WORK, 1996
Lisa Farnin, Cancer Support Advocate, and
family friendly workplace
FAMILY RE-UNION 6: FAMILIES AND LEARNING, 1997
Anne McGintis, Coordinator of
Parent, School, and
Community
FAMILY RE-UNION 7: FAMILIES AND HEALTH, 1998
Terrell Smith, Administrative Director of the
Vanderbilt Children's
FAMILY RE-UNION 8: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY, 1999
Lily Yeh, Co-founder and Director, Village of Arts
and
Humanities,
FAMILY RE-UNION 9: FAMILIES AND SENIORS, ACROSS THE
GENERATIONS, 2000
Jack McConnell, M.D., Founder
and CEO, Volunteers in
Medicine Clinic and
“PUTTING
FAMILIES AT THE CENTER OF POLICY:
WHAT
ARE THE CRITICAL ISSUES?”
10:15-11:15
A
discussion of cross-cutting issues and principles of the forum topics
Larry
Aber, Director
of the National Center for Children in Poverty
and Professor of Public
Health at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia
University, New York City, NY
James
Comer, M.D., Maurice
Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study
Samina
Quraeshi, Henry Luce
Professor of Family and Community,
Ralph
Smith, Vice President,
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD
“MAKING A DIFFERENCE EARLY IN LIFE” 11:20-12:20
Tipper Gore
leads a panel of young people who are committed to positive change in
Matthew Cavedon, middle
school student advocate for children with disabilities,
Jose Diaz, Youth
Coordinator of the By Youth For Youth Network, Mar Vista Family
Brandon Laws, middle school student,
resident of Hope Meadows,
Jennifer McGintis, high
school student leader, Chattanooga, TN
Daniel
Moretz, Lake Forest School student
and advocate for
heart transplants,
Kayt Norris, high
school student and founder of Helping Hands Club,
The
audience proceeds to working group sessions.
Lunch is served during breakouts.
WORKING
GROUP
SESSION
1:00-2:30
Each
group tackles a different topic of previous Re-Unions. Led by
a panel of experts,
participants
seek answers to these questions: “What are the core principles of
putting families at the center of this issue?” “What have we
learned?” “What should happen next?” “Who in this group will take
action?” “How can success be replicated?”
“COMMITMENTS
TO POSITIVE CHANGE FOR FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES”
3:00-4:-00
EDUCATION FOR FAMILY CENTERED COMMUNITY BUILDING
Richard
Baron,
President and CEO, McCormack Baron Associates, St. Louis, MO
Neal Halfon,
M.D., Professor of Schools of Medicine and Public Health and
Anne Peretz, Founder
and Chair of the Board, the Family Center, Inc.,
FOCUS ON YOUTH
Rich Lerner,
Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science,
Deborah Delgado,
Senior Associate, Annie E. Casey Foundation,
LOCAL AND NATIONAL EXPANSION OF “COMMUNITY COUSINS”
Diane Bock, Founder and President, Community
Cousins,
Bob
Ross, M.D., Director, The California Endowment, Woodland Hills CA
Shazeen
Mufti, Participant in Community Cousins, Lake Forest, CA
WORKING GROUP SESSIONS
1.
FAMILY RE-UNION: BASIC PRINCIPLES
Marti
Erickson, Moderator, Director, Children, Family, Youth
Consortium, MN
Larry
Aber,
Director, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia
University,
Moises
Perez,
Director, Alianza Dominicana, Inc., New York City, NY
Ann
Segal, Senior
Manager and Director of the Washington
Office
for Building
2.
REINVENTING FAMILY POLICY
Anne
Peretz,
Moderator, Founder and Chair of the Board of
The Family Center, Inc.,
Paula Duncan, M.D., Youth Health Director, Vermont Child Health Improvement
Gaetana
Ebbole, Executive
Director, Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County,
Bob
Ross, M.D.,
Director, The California Endowment, Woodland Hills, CA
3.
FATHERS, AND THE ROLE OF MEN IN
CHILDREN’S LIVES
Preston
Garrison, Moderator, Executive
Director, National Practitioners Network for
Ken
Canfield,
Founder and President, National Center for Fathering,
Joe
Jones, Jr., President,
Center for Fathers, Families, and Workforce Development,
Kyle Pruett, M.D. Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine,
4.
FAMILY AND MEDIA
Lorna Lathram, Moderator, Executive Director, Omidyar Foundation, Alameda, CA
Jeffrey Cole, Director, UCLA
Center for Communication Policy, Los Angeles, CA
Ranny Levy, President, Coalition for Quality
Children’s Media, Santa Fe, NM
David Walsh, Founder,
President and CEO, Institute for Family & Media, Minneapolis, MN
5.
FAMILY AND WORK
Faith
Wohl, Moderator,
President, Child Care Action Campaign, New York City, NY
Alfred
Babington-Johnson, President, CEO, Stairstep Initiative Co, Minneapolis, MN
Lisa
Farnin, Cancer
support advocate, work/family pioneer,
Bucks
County, PA
Jeanette
Laws, Adoptive
and foster mother, Generations of Hope, Rantoul, IL
6.
FAMILIES AND LEARNING
James Comer, M.D., Moderator,
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry,
Yvonne Chan, Principal,
Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, Los Angeles, CA
Lucia Diaz, Executive
Director, Mar Vista Family Center, Culver City, CA
Anne McGintis, Coordinator of
Parent, School, Community Involvement, Hamilton County
7.
FAMILIES AND HEALTH
Bev
Johnson, Moderator,
President & CEO, Institute for Family Centered Care, Bethesda, MD
Bernard
Arons,
M.D., Director, Center for Mental Health Services, Rockville, MD
Milagros
Batista, Project
Manager, Best Beginnings, New York City, NY
Neal Halfon, M.D., Professor of Schools of
Medicine and Public Health, and Director,
8.
FAMILY & COMMUNITY
Samina
Quraeshi,
Moderator, Luce Professor in Family and
Community, School of
Jim
Bueermann, Chief
of Police, Housing, Recreation, Elder Affairs, Redlands, CA
Louis
Quijas, Chief
of Police, High Point, NC
Lily
Yeh, Executive
Director, Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA
9.
FAMILIES ACROSS THE GENERATIONS
Donna
Butts, Moderator, Executive Director, Generations United, Washington, DC
Brenda
Krause Eheart, Founder,
Executive Director, Generations of Hope; Director of Hope for the Children
research and Policy Program, University of Illinois, Rantoul, IL
Jack
McConnell, M.D.,
Founder and CEO, Volunteers in Medicine
Clinic and Institute,
Sally
Newman, Emeritus
Faculty/Researcher, University Center for Social and Urban
10.
FAMILIES
AND THE FUTURE
Andy Shookhoff, Moderator, Child and
Family Policy Center, Vanderbilt Institute for
Michael Benjamin, Executive
Director, National Council on Family Relations,
Rich Lerner, Bergstrom Chair
in Applied Developmental Science, Tufts University,
Aaron Lieberman, President and
Founder, Jumpstart, Boston, MA