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Morning10:00:00 AM to 11:30:00 AM - Friday, March 28, 2008
1. Youth Development This session will provide an overview of the definition of youth development and the process used to develop and implement an effective youth development initiative (YDI). Presenters will address questions such as: How is youth development different from risk-focused initiatives? What are the elements of effective youth development programming? Who are the critical actors in an effective YDI? How do you measure YD programming at the neighborhood and community levels? What are examples of effective YDIs?
Moderator: Blaine A. Griffin, Executive Director, Community Relations Board, City of Cleveland
2. NPO Management (Organized with The Ralph Brody Nonprofit Management Session This session will focus on nonprofit sustainability—what it is, how nonprofits can attain it, and how funders can support it. Presenters will offer a common definition of nonprofit sustainability; provide insight into how a nonprofit can obtain sustainability, both in theory and by example; and discuss how funders can best promote/support sustainability in their grantees.
Moderator: Todd L. Lloyd, Vice President, Education, Ohio Grantmakers Forum
3. Financial Literacy (Sponsored and organized by KeyBank; Repeated in Afternoon Session #13) Borrowing money, making a payment late, using a check-cashing shop instead of a bank…possibly the first steps to financial ruin. People from all walks of life are living pay-to-pay, needing only one crisis to put them over the edge. Attendees will explore financial literacy and how it can help professionals—as well as those who turn to them—and learn about a new program of financial education.
Moderator: Stephen J. Ong, Vice President, Supervision & Regulations Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Chair, Board of Directors, Community Solutions
4. Public Policy For years, we have heard about the impending skills gap. We know what it is, but when and where will it occur? And how should/is
Moderator: David A. Mikita, Project Manager, T.E.A.M. Academy, Cleveland Metropolitan School District
5. Public Policy Supported in part by the Homer D. Webb Fund. Presenters in this session will share information on early care and education policy, programs, and changes at the state and local levels; provide the opportunity to have access to state and local early care and education leaders; and offer the opportunity to participate in groundWork™, a statewide early care and education policy initiative.
Moderator: Joan Villarreal, Vice President, Lorain National Bank; Member, Board of Directors, Community Solutions
6. Older Persons (Organized by AIDS Funding Collaborative and the Council on Older Persons, Community Solutions) At the end of 2006, 560 persons over age 55 in the
Moderator: Catherine Rush, Habilitation Manager, Senior Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
7. Partnerships (Organized by The Legal Aid Society of This session will introduce the audience to the Community Advocacy Program (CAP) and describe how medical providers and attorneys trained in poverty law can reduce health disparities for vulnerable communities; explain how medical-legal partnerships around Ohio and the U.S. are teaming up to develop advocacy strategies to address broad-based health policy change; and encourage development of ideas for creating other non-traditional interdisciplinary partnerships, especially among professionals who share a common goal of creating healthier communities.
Moderator: Colleen Cotter, Esq., Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Cleveland; Member, Board of Directors, Community Solutions
8. NPO Management (Organized by Towards Employment, Inc.) Community wealth, also known as social enterprise, is emerging as a viable strategy for improving the financial self-sufficiency of human service organizations.
Moderator: Jill Paulsen, Program Officer, The Cleveland Foundation
9. Public Health (Organized by The Free Medical Clinic of Greater This session will educate regarding the direct and indirect financial, medical, and economic development costs of failing to effectively address the growing population of uninsured Ohioans; provide an analysis of the benefits and costs of the various national and Ohio-based proposals to provide comprehensive health care access to an estimated 1.2 million uninsured Ohioans; and begin the process of crafting a non-partisan blueprint for a system of health care designed to provide affordable access to quality health care in Ohio and the nation.
Moderator: Danny R. Williams, J.D., Executive Director, The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland
10. Family Health (Organized by This session will focus on the role of teen clinics and providers in the prevention of teen pregnancy, based on a review of the recent literature of the effectiveness of providing clinic-based contraceptive services to teens. The facilitator will outline characteristics of effective teen clinics and the providers who operate them, and provide an overview of common gaps in services and challenges faced by different types of clinics.
Moderator: Barbara A. Baker, CPA, MNO, Director, Northeast Ohio Family Health Program, Community Solutions
Afternoon2:15:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM - Friday, March 28, 2008
11. Youth Development As a follow up to the morning Youth Development session, this session will provide participants with a programmatic example of youth development, focusing on U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliot’s work with the G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) program. G.R.E.A.T. is a federally funded, school-based youth gang and violence prevention program instructed by law enforcement officers across the country.
12. NPO Management (Organized by American Red Cross, Greater Many nonprofit organizations have no business interruption or continuity of operations plan in place. This session will provide a practical “how-to” approach developing such a plan. Participants will learn how to use information already available and how and where to interact with local resources. They will be led through a hazard and risk assessment and vulnerability assessment and shown how to apply available information to their own agencies.
Moderator: Pam Oliver, Director, Education & Training, American Red Cross, Greater Cleveland Chapter
13. Financial Literacy (Sponsored and organized by KeyBank. Repeat of Morning Session #3.) Borrowing money, making a payment late, using a check-cashing shop instead of a bank…possibly the first steps to financial ruin. People from all walks of life are living pay-to-pay, needing only one crisis to put them over the edge. Attendees will explore financial literacy and how it can help professionals—as well as those who turn to them—and learn about a new program of financial education.
14. Public Policy How does a community engage citizens with multiple barriers (i.e. homelessness, chronic unemployment, formerly incarcerated) and create opportunities that allow them to participate in, and contribute to, economic development efforts? This session will help attendees better understand “hard to employ” populations and their needs; will review strategies that seek to better engage these populations in the economy; and will identify opportunities for systemic solutions.
Moderator: LaDonna Pavetti, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ
15. Public Policy In the 2006 census data,
Moderator: Ericka Thoms, Policy & Planning Associate, Community Solutions
16. Older Persons (Organized by Council on Older Persons, Community Solutions) Elders are the highest-risk population for suicide, more lethal in their attempts, and less likely to seek help. Special care is needed to reach out to this population, but few suicide prevention programs target them. This session will help attendees understand the high incidence of depression and suicide among older adults; learn about effective interventions with patients and postventions with family after a loved one has died; and recognize the symptoms of depression and the resources available in the community to counteract it.
Moderator: Catherine Rush, Habilitation Manager, Senior Services, Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
17. Partnerships Partnering or collaboration among social service agencies within and across sectors has become a common strategy for the delivery of services. This session will present the conceptual reasons for, and issues involved in, partnering and collaboration. It will include recent research findings and the perspectives and experiences of the funding community and those who partner to provide or improve service.
Moderator: Robert E. Eckardt, Dr.PH., Senior Vice President for Programs and Evaluation, The Cleveland Foundation
18. NPO Management (Organized by Towards Employment) As a follow up to Morning Session #8, this how-to workshop offers participants practical tools and guidance in identifying earned income opportunities for their organizations. Participants will better understand how to assess their organizations’ assets and potential opportunities; how to brainstorm new venture concepts; and how to use a framework for evaluating the feasibility of different community wealth opportunities.
Moderator: Heather Peeler, Senior Consultant, Community Wealth Ventures, Washington, DC
19. NPO Management Supported in part by the Lolette Hanserd Fund. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) provides a model that helps groups overcome their challenges while fostering creativity and innovation. This session will build understanding of AI as a strength-based paradigm for seeing and approaching the world; help develop skills for life and work, including the art of asking positive questions, the ability to identify narrative and metaphor as tools for human transformation, and accessing the innovative and co-creative nature of AI; and provide an introduction to the five-phase AI process as a specific strategy for transforming relationships, organizations, and communities.
Moderator: Michael S. Mayor, Member, Board of Directors, Community Solutions
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