Board of Supervisors - Mount Vernon District Alert:
You are cordially invited to our NEXUS 2018 Forum (3 contact hour credits available) Keeping Our Young Safe – in Mind and Spirit
Offered by the Advisory Board for the Joe and Fredona Gartlan Center in Mount Vernon 2 The Fairfax County-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB).
Please RSVP to Lainge Bailey @ Earthlink.net.
A Community Conversation about Strengthening the Brain-ways of Our Young: Their Resiliency, Challenges, Opportunities, and Interventions
1:00 Scott Brabrand, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Today’s State of Students K-12: Psychological readiness for life and lifelong learning
1:30 Keynote Presenter: Erin D. Berman, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, MD
2:00 Multicultural youth and gangs: Prevention, safety, & interventions with recent immigrants.
Facilitator: Edward A. Ryan, Fairfax County Gang Prevention Coordinator and Director, Intensive Supervision Program
Kate Reen, Youth Initiatives Program Manager, Northern Virginia Family Services (NVFS)
Meredith McKee Director, Multicultural Center & Youth Initiatives (NVFS)
3:00 Creating a community of hope, healing, and resilience. Interventions with multicultural youth and recent youth immigrants
Facilitator : Daryl Washington, Fairfax/Falls Church CSB (Facilitator)
Allison Lowry: Department of Family Service
Ashley Alexander: Fairfax/Falls Church CSB
Maria Genova, FCPS psychologist
Kerri Hudgins, FCPS social worker
Claudia Thomas, FCPS Family Engagement