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Annual Conference on Family Group Decision Making and Other Family Engagement Approaches

Attend the 2010 FGDM Conference in Vermont

Registration is now open for the 2010 Conference on Family Group Decision Making and Other Family Engagement Approaches. For the first time, we are able to offer online registration. This year’s conference is at the Sheraton Hotel in Burlington, Vt., June 22-25. Its theme, “Fostering All the Connections,” is based on the assumption that we are all interconnected in society. Engaging family groups in decision making about their children and young people results in the opportunity for a plethora of connections to be formed and strengthened to support achieving better outcomes for children and families.

Are you in:

child welfare;
juvenile justice;
mental health;
domestic violence; or
other child- and family-serving systems

and involved with:

family group conferencing;
family team meetings;
family team decision making;
family team conferencing;
child permanency mediation;
youth conferencing;
circles of support;
team decision making; or
other family involvement approaches?

American Humane’s annual conference provides the opportunity for networking and learning, including workshops, discussion groups, skills training institutes, half-day seminars and dynamic plenary sessions.

Senior Fellow Mike Doolan Available This June

American Humane is pleased to announce that Mike Doolan is joining our FGDM team for June 2010. He will attend American Humane’s annual conference in Burlington, Vt., from June 22-25. He also is available (from June 7 to July 1, 2010) to provide training and technical assistance to U.S. and Canadian communities working to implement and sustain FGDM processes in child welfare and youth justice systems.

To schedule Mike to visit your community, contact Lisa Merkel-Holguin at lisa@americanhumane.org or (303) 925-9421.

Find out more.

Can’t make it to the conference in 2010? Save the dates for the 2011 Conference on Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) and Other Family Engagement Approaches, June 6-9, 2011, in Lake Las Vegas, Nev.

Can’t wait until June? Join the dialogue on one of American Humane’s monthly FGDM webinars. Topics include engaging fathers, solution-focused preparation, reducing disproportionality, addressing substance abuse and domestic violence, working with immigrant families and many others!

Learn more and register.

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