
NRC & DMC Resource Center Offices:
100 Oakdale Campus, Iowa City #W206
1200 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Suite
120
Announcing
the 2009 DMC Resource Center and Minority Youth and Families Conference:
8th Annual Investing In Iowa's Youth Investing in Iowa's
Future
Chapter 8:
Ending Racial Disparities
December
10 - 11, 2009 with Resource Center
Training Institute on December 9th

(Click on picture for more hotel information)
This year's
conference will be held at the Jordan Creek Marriott Hotel in
West Des Moines, Iowa (be sure to mention DMC Conference
to receive the special room rate of $80/night for 1-4 people/room)
Pre
Conference Training Institutes being planned include:
Pat Parker
- Strengths based approaches for working with families
Mike Leiber
- Understanding and Using Relative Rates: The DMC Reduction
Model
Shannon Alvarez
- Facilitating Gender, Race & Power in Small Groups
Gary Blau
- Using a Systems of Care Approach to Impact DMC - 4 pm
Thursday Dec 10
Featured Conference Speakers Include:

Karl Dennis, author of Everything
is Normal Until Proven Otherwise (available through the Resource
Center)
Andrea
Coleman, State Representative, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Rita Cameron Wedding,
University
of California - Sacramento

Alton
Jamison, youth empowerment and diversity speaker, Norflolk VA

Hasan
Davis, Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Operations at Kentucky Department
of Juvenile Justice & Founder at Empowerment Solutions
Special Law Enforcement Presentation
by: James A. McLain , State of
Maryland

Click here to see information on National
Law Enforcement Curriculum for Reducing DMC sponsored by OJJDP

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