"Investing in Iowa's Youth, Investing in Iowa's Future"

CHAPTER 5: EXPLORING LINKAGES; LISTENING TO YOUTH

2006 Annual DMC Resource Center & Minority Youth and Families Initiative

Conference

Program

2006 DMC Brochure

[Click here for previous conferences]

EVALUATIONS

• Overall Conference Evaluations

• Opening and Closing Sessions

• Session Evaluations and Comments from the Audience by Session

Powerpoint Presentations

• Racial Geography by Dorothy Roberts (author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare)
• Girls of Color by Connie Burgess
• Racial Disproportionality & Disparate Outcomes in the CW System by Oronde Miller
• Observations on Community Efforts to Reduce DMC by Randy Thomas (Nov 30, 2006)
• Impacting DMC in Your Community: Do's and Don'ts by Randy Thomas (Dec 1, 2006)
• Reducing Overrepresentation in Schools by Linda Lane, Ellen McGinnis Smith, Lori Rogerson

Opportunity at Iowa provided support to this year's conference. OI is an outreach unit of

The University Iowa which serves prospective and current students from under-represented minority groups.

BORDERS BOOKS HOSTED A BOOK SIGNING WITH DOROTHY ROBERTS Thursday Novermber 30th, following the opening general session. Books include Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty .

Borders Books is located at 4100 University Ave Ste 115 , West Des Moines , IA .

PICTURES TAKEN DURING 2006 DMC CONFERENCE

Photos taken by Lori Reynolds, 2006 DMC Conference

Des Moines, Iowa November 29 - December 1

Panel of Karl Dennis, Brad Richardson, Shay Bilchik, Dorothy Roberts

and Connie Burgess at the 2006 DMC Conference Opening Session

Brad Richardson, Karl Dennis, Dorothy Roberts and Pat

Parker at the 2006 Pre-Conference meeting.

Shay Bilchik speaking at the Opening Plenary of the

2006 DMC Conference

The Dare to Dream youth panel conducts a workshop at the

2006 DMC Resource Center Conference. The 2006 DMC Conference

received funding through Opporunity at Iowa to involve youth at

this year's 5th Annual DMC Resource Center Conference.

Dare to Dream Youth Panel Presentation December 1, 2006

Elisa Ewing and Megan Spain presentation of one of the

University of Iowa's Year of Public Engagement Awards

Oronde Miller (right) prepares to take the podium to

address the general audience at the closing session

Dennette Derezotes and Shay Bilchik at the 2006

Pre-Conference meeting

Brad Richardson opens for Pat Parker at the 2006 Pre-Conference

Institute which featured Pat Parker and Karl Dennis

Cheryl Faries and Rep. Deborah Berry greet Connie Burgess

following the 2006 DMC Conference opening general sesson

Keynote speakers Belinda Creighton-Smith & Randy Thomas

Isiserettes perform at the 2006 DMC Conference closing

Dennette Derezotes interviews Julia Charles at the 2006

DMC Conference

2006 DMC Conference closing speaker Frank LaMere

Ed Saunders, Director of the School of Social Work provides

the closing for the 2006 DMC Conference

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Conference Announcement Page

On November 30th and December 1st, 2006 the DMC Resource Center will hold the

5th ANNUAL DMC RESOURCE CENTER CONFERENCE

" Investing in Iowa's Youth, Investing in Iowa's Future" -

at the Downtown Holiday Inn, Des Moines, IA

Registration Form

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DMC Resource Center PreConference Training Institute with Pat Parker and Karl Dennis

November 29, 2006 Click Here for PreConference Training Institute Flyer

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Click on the links below for more conference information:

Conference Agenda and Schedule

Speakers and Concurrent Sessions Overview (Workshops at a glance)

Workshop Descriptions and Speaker Biosketches

Karl Dennis will speak on Wraparound as

an approach to reducing racial disparities

at the 2006 DMC PreConference Institute and

will co-host the opening ceremony.

Connie Burgess will speak on the issues of

particular relevance to minority girls and the

Wraparound approach.

Dorothy Roberts, Law Professor at Northwestern University

and author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare and

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

will speak on Thursday morning November 30th.

Opening Plenary 2004

(Terry Cross, Brad Richardson, Pat Parker

Shay Bilchik, Heid Hsia)

For more information please contact the

DMC Resource Center Coordinator

Dr. Brad Richardson

phone: 319.335.4924

email: brad-richardson@uiowa.edu

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The 2006 Siouxland (Woodbury County) DMC Conference:

Changing Our Community, Combining Our Efforts was held June 8, 2006 at Briar Cliff University.

Speakers at 2006 Woodbury Co. Conference

Conference Proceedings are available here.

[click here] for Federal Technical Assistance Report by Randy Thomas [report cover]

generated in conjunction with the conference

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The DMC Resource Center Works to Eliminate Disparity

Proceedings of the 4th Annual DMC Resource Center Conference are posted: ( click here ).