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Ceremonial Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introduction of the Defending Childhood Task Force Members
May 17, 2012Panelist:Gil Vigil, Administrator of the Santa Fe Indian School and Board Member of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, District of New Mexico, Attorney General Gary King of New Mexico, Anna Martinez, Senior Advisor to the Associate Attorney General and Defending Childhood Initiative Co-Chair, Robert Listenbee, Jr., J.D. and Joe Torre, Defending Childhood Task Force Co-chairs, and Members of the Defending Childhood Task Force.
Violence in Rural and Remote Communities
May 17, 2012Panelist: Rochelle A., Vice President of Leaders Uniting Voices Youth Advocates (LUVYA) of New Mexico, Elsie Boudreau, LMSW, Alaska Native Justice Center, and Ivy Wright-Bryan, National Director of Native American Mentoring, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Life of a Teenager in Rural America
May 17, 2012Panelist: Paul Smokowski, MSW, Ph.D., CP, Director of the North Carolina Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (NC-ACE),
Carole Justice, Coordinator of the Indian Country Methamphetamine Program, and Nate Monson, Executive Director of Iowa Safe Schools
System Responses to Rural and Tribal Violence
May 17, 2012Panelist: Mato Standing High, Attorney General of Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Janell Regimbal, Senior Vice President, Children and Family Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, and Annie Pelletier Kerrick, Idaho Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Project
Combating Childhood Exposure to Violence: Utilizing the Strengths of Native Communities
May 17, 2012Panelist: Dolores Subia BigFoot, Ph.D., Director, Indian Country Child Trauma Center and Project Making Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), Lyle Claw, President, Changing Lives Around the World (CLAW) Inc., Coloradas Mangas, President of the Mescalero Apache Youth Council and Youth Board Member for the Center for Native American Youth, and Maria Brock, LISW, Tribal Home Visiting Project Director, Native American Professional Parent Resources, Inc.
Testimony From Members of the Public
May 17, 2012Members of the public provide testimony to the task force.
Opening Remarks
May 17, 2012Panelist: Bernard P. Perlmutter, Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic, University of Miami School of Law, The Honorable Cindy S. Lederman, Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court of Miami-Dade County, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Florida, Defending Childhood Task Force Co-Chairs Joe Torre and Robert Listenbee, Jr. Defending Childhood Task Force Members.
The Child Welfare System and Children’s Exposure to Violence
May 17, 2012Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services
Interrupting the Cycle of Violence: Local Leaders’ Panel
May 17, 2012Panelist: The Honorable Mark Luttrell, Jr., Mayor of Shelby County (Memphis), Tennessee, The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia. (Note: Bryan Samuels, Commissioner of Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, rejoined the panel for further dialogue with the task force.)
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