This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Some of Baltimore’s most vulnerable children, youth, and families are involved with the juvenile or adult justice systems. This session will describe opportunities for community-based programs to work with children and youth involved with the juvenile justice or adult correctional systems and the experiences of children and youth involved with these systems. This session also will provide tools for practitioners and other supports to more effectively support the needs of formerly incarcerated youth.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Participants will learn how to identify behaviors that may emerge as a result of exposure to violence and what can be done to reduce trauma following violence and how to create hope and healing for children and youth exposed to violence.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Participants will learn about the dynamics of police violence against youth. Participants will gain tools to help support youth that have experienced police violence. We also will describe efforts that reduce police violence and how community-based organizations can participate in those activities.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Issues of mental health and exposure to violence are inextricably linked. There are particular patterns that emerge in the face of exposure to violence. This session will provide participants insight into the nature of those patterns and how they impact youth. Participants will also gain skills that will help them utilize practices that can address potential mental health challenges that emerge from exposure to violence.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

There are very particular dynamics involved when dealing with women who are victims of violence and daughters of victims of violence. This session will give participants insight into what these particular dynamics are and will provide tools for practitioners to integrate practices into their services that address the particular needs of women /girls who are exposed to and/or are victims of violence.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Participants will learn about the dynamics of violence among youth. Participants will learn how to detect youth that are being drawn into gang activity or neighborhood cliques and will be given tools to help them effectively intervene.

This is a small group session to dive deep into the material for interested participants. This will allow time for you to ask specific questions and learn from subject matter experts.

Participants will learn how to detect and resolve conflicts amongst students that are based on conflicts outside of school, conflicts that spill over from the community. Opportunities for linking with students and schools through the Reconnect, Restore, Reimagine, Baltimore’s School Recovery Strategy also will be discussed.

Service providers and other individuals working with children and youth in Baltimore need to understand how important they are in efforts to promote health and healing. This session will describe opportunities to play a greater role in Baltimore’s efforts to reduce violence and to increase hope and wellbeing.