Solutions Summit:
Engaging Marginalized Youth
February 11, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Description
The 2009 Solutions Summit will bring together educators and practitioners who work with marginalized youth to learn about service-learning and volunteerism as strategies for youth engagement. This intense full-day experience will explore ways to increase student success among marginalized youth, including those from low income and disenfranchised communities, youth in foster care, and youth with disabilities. Participants will gain an understanding of how service can transform youth, community, and society, and will leave with tools to implement service-learning in their own youth programming.
Click here to view the 2009 Solutions Summit Agenda.
Registration Information
Registration for Solutions Summit has closed. For more information contact Michelle Snitgen at (517)492-2439.
$50.00 registration fee
$25.00 discounted rate with paid Institute registration
Presented By:
Michigan Campus Compact
Michigan Community Service Commission
Solutions Summit Goals:
- Participants will gain an understanding of how service-learning can transform youth, community, and society
- Participants will gain an understanding as to how service-learning can be implemented as a strategy for working with youth in marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
- Participants will gain an understanding of the basic principles of service-learning, including models of promising practices
- Participants will receive tools to implement service-learning in their own youth programming.
Who will benefit from attending the Solutions Summit?
- Practitioners from youth serving organizations or programs
- K-12 educators and administrators
- Higher education faculty, staff, administrators and students
- National Service programs, staff, partners, and members
Speaker Bio
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Discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Nicole Webster. Nicole Webster is an Associate Professor of Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Pennsylvania State University where she conducts community-based service-learning research in marginalized communities. Nicole has published articles on service-learning and outreach in outlets such as Advances in Service-Learning Research, Journal of Gifted Child Quarterly, and National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly. She has also developed workshop presentations for domestic and international audiences. Nicole’s co-edited book, Problematizing Service-Learning: Critical Reflections for Development and Action will be published by Information Age Publishing in 2009. |
Sponsors
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