4th Annual PEAR Conference
The Whole Child, The Whole Day: Building Systems, Transforming Relationships
Schedule Thursday April 6 | Friday April 7 Thursday, April 6 - Opening Night Event "Mallozzi's film is a truly masterful work portraying the lives of youth and families who are trying to begin new lives in a strange land while making peace with the ghosts of their past."
- David Wilcox Ed.D. Harvard Medical School Clinical Director of Adolescent Consultation Services, Middlesex Juvenile Court Clinics
What: A Sneak Preview of "Monkey Dance," a documentary film about Cambodian-American youth on a journey of discovery airing nationally on public television in May
When:
5:00 pm - Reception
6:00 pm - Film screening
7:00 pm - Conversation with filmmaker Julie Mallozzi and Boston area youth
Where: Boston Children's Museum, 300 Congress Street
MONKEY DANCE is a documentary film about three teens coming of age in Lowell, Massachusetts. Children of Cambodian refugees, they inhabit a tough, working class world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents' culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and good times often pull harder. For more information about the film, see www.monkey-dance.com.
Friday, April 7 - 4th Annual PEAR Conference
"The Whole Child-The Whole Day:
Building Systems, Transforming Relationships"
Omni Parker House, Boston
| 8:00 am - 8:20 am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:20 am - 9:00 am |
Welcome & Framing of Conference
- Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
- Dr. Gil Noam
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| 9:00 am - 10:10 am |
Opening Keynote Address
- Moderator: Milton Little, Jr., United Way of Massachusetts Bay
- Jonah Edelman, Executive Director, Stand For Children
- Peter Edelman, Professor of Law and Social Policy, Georgetown University
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| 10:10 am - 10:25 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Panel Sessions
- A New Way: Ambitious Strategies to Change Education
- The Message is the Medium...Communications Strategies to Move the Needle for Kids
- Creating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
- Reaching Out: Understanding and Connecting with Youth Exposed to Trauma & Violence
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| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm |
Networking Lunch
Student Interest Group Lunch
Moderator: Max Fripp, Citizen Schools |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
The Power of Relationship: Personal Stories of Trial and Transformation
- Andre John, Youth Director, Ella J. Baker House
- Justin Pasquariello, Executive Director, Adoption and Foster Care Mentor Boston
- Meg Vaillancourt, President, Red Sox Foundation
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| 1:40 pm - 2:50 pm |
Panel Sessions
- Building a Statewide System for Afterschool: Financing and Public-Private Partnerships
- Translating Best Practices into Multimedia Tools for Afterschool Programs
- Active Youth: Tackling Obesity and Physical Activity in After School
- Where Education and Mental Health Meet: Innovative Ways to Change Systems and Relate to Kids
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| 2:50 pm - 3:50 pm |
Closing Keynote Address
- Harry Spence, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services
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| 3:50 pm - 4:15 pm |
Closing Remarks |
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CONFERENCES |
