The Children, Youth and Families At Risk Conference 2009 will be held May 19-21, with the CYFAR 2009 Pre-conference on Monday, May 18. The venue for CYFAR 2009 is the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor, located in the center of this historic city.
Weekly features on the CYFAR 2009 Conference website will highlight the outstanding line-up of keynote and research presentations, as well as all of the professional development opportunities at the conference.
Francesca Adler-Baeder, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University will present the opening session keynote, What’s love got to do with it? Children’s development in the context of their parents’ relationships.
Bonnie Braun, Herschel S. Horowitz Endowed Chair and Director, Center for Health Literacy, University of Maryland—College Park, School of Public Health, will present the 4-H Family Strengthening Distinguished Lecture at CYFAR 2009. Dr. Braun’s lecture is sponsored in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation who believe that children do better when families do better and families do better in supportive communities. The goal of this lecture is to share research and practical examples of the reality of this statement and what this might mean for youth, families and communities.
Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology, Cornell University is a featured Research Presenter. For the past two decades he has been examining cumulative risk exposure among a sample of low- and middle- income children growing up in rural New York areas. His research presentation is entitled, The Environment of Childhood Poverty.
Another featured researcher, Deborah Leong, Professor Emeritus, Director Center for Improving Early Learning, Metropolitan State College of Denver, will present Self-Regulation and School Readiness: What Neuroscience Tells Us and How to Support its Development in the Early Childhood Classroom. Dr. Leong is Director for the Center for Improving Early Learning, home of Tools of the Mind.
June P. Mead, Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Human Development, serves as the CYFAR Conference Program Coordinator and chairs the Program Committee. Steve Goggin, Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Human Development, chairs the Keynote and Research Committee.
For Further Information and Registration, see the CYFAR 2009 website.