May 23, 2011 8:00-­10:00am
Pitt University Club 123 University Place, Ballroom B (upstairs)
www.uc.pitt.edu
**Adjacent parking in Soldiers & Sailors Garage**
 
RSVP to Angie Cheyne at cheyne@pitt.edu
 
APOST (Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time) In partnership with the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, presents the evidence-­based Out-­of-School afterschool Initiatives of Dr. Gil Noam who founded the Program in Education After-School & Resiliency at Harvard. (www.pearweb.org). Noam and his team have developed training and technical assistance for high quality afterschool programs across the country.  We will also be joined by the nation's leaders of youth worker professional development, including:
· Karen Vander Ven, University of Pittsburgh (author and afterschool advocate)
· Paul Young, President, National Afterschool Association
· Frank Eckles, President, National Certification Board
· Jean Carpenter-­-Williams, President, Association of Child and Youth Care Practice
· Dale Curry, Kent State University (expert on training transfer in youth work)
Highlights:
8:00 - 8:20 Professional networking, and continental breakfast
8:20 - 8:30 Welcome and remarks
8:30 - 9:15 Keynote presentation, and questions.
9:15 - 10:00 Panel discussion, and questions
 
Optional Afternoon Panels & Celebration
Starting at 1pm there will also be two panels on the future of youth work and professional development in honor of Karen Vander Ven. Karen has been at Pitt for more than 50 years and has written over 400 articles in the field of youth work. More than 100 leading experts in youth work professional development from across the country and around the world will attend. All from APOST are welcome to join us.

Questions about this event? Contact Aimee LeFevers at alefevers@uwac.org, and Andy Munoz amunoz@pitt.edu

  

Please click here for the flyer and more information about the event. 

  

"Doing Our Best" Feature: Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K. Uses Technology to Help Transform youth

As we move deeper and deeper into the 21st century our world is getting smaller and smaller.  Through the technology we have today you can be face-to-face video chatting with someone in China with a few clicks of a mouse.  These technologies are the ones that our youth are growing up with and are using practically from birth.

With that being said, youth today do not typically learn through the traditional methods of reading and writing but rather through hands on experiences and engagement through the technology they already are so enthralled with.  By bringing programming to the Pittsburgh community such as Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K., we are providing the opportunities to supplement what is being taught in school with quality, meaningful hands-on experiences that the youth, and the community for that matter, will remember and will surely learn from.  Thus, we begin to make the vital connections that are necessary to ensure not only our community but also our country's continued success.

Through the programming that Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K. provides, we are amazed at the transformation you see in not only youth, but also adults through engagement in this hands-on form of education.  Having served over 700 youth since our inception in 2007, we have experienced seeing some of you might describe as the most rhythmically challenged person transform into a whole different being that can design some of the most intelligent, thought provoking rhymes some may have ever heard.  By giving our communities these tools and allowing them to make the decision on how they want to utilize that knowledge to form a mock record label in which they each hold an executive position and can make real-life decisions to ultimately make an end product that is meaningful and fulfilling to them we are instilling the 4 values that Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K. holds most important, including Leadership development, Organizational skills, Cooperative economics and Knowledge of the music business.
 
For more information on Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K. and the programming we offer, please visit www.hiphoponlock.org, or you can find us on Facebook at The Hip Hop On L.O.C.K. Project or on Twitter at HHOLProject.

Want to know the latest and greatest in what's happening in afterschool in our region?

5/11 CCAC Nonprofit Course: Mining and Designing QuickBooks

  

5/12 Wireless Neighborhoods PRESENTS...IMPROVING AFTERSCHOOL TRAINING SERIES Effective Student Management & Establishing Realistic Boundaries

  

5/12 2011 NonProfit Summit

  

5/12 - 5/13 The After-School Institute (TASI) Eastern Regional Conference on After-School

  

5/18 Greater Pittsburgh Afterschool Peer Network (GPAPN) Meeting

  

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