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Engaging Boys of Color Around Healthy Decision Making
Engaging Boys of Color Around Healthy Decision Making Unlocking the Keys to Positive Male Development
Professional Development Conference

Date: October 9, 2008, from 8:30 am until 4:30 p.m.
Location: Loyola College Graduate Conference Center
8890 McGaw Road, Columbia, MD 21045

Speakers include:

Matt Stevens, Empower Today’s Youth (Newark, NJ) founder of the Male Empowerment Summit and author of Doing It My Way (Decision Making workbook), Al Watson, CEO of the MANA Group, Dr. Jerry Semper, (Mitchellville, MD) Semper & Associates- former New York City Police Officer and trainer of Police Officers across the U.S., Luis Cardona, Violence Prevention Coordinator, Montgomery County & featured speaker Liefel Jackson, former member of the Crips featured in HBO documentary Bangin In Little Rock. Jackson is the founder of Reaching Our Children & Neigborhoods in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Topics include:
  • Resolving Conflicts among young males
  • Rules of engagement when stopped by the police
  • Alternatives to a gang lifestyle
  • Decision making
  • Teaching life & survival skills to young males of color
CEU’s available

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