Conferences

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Mini-keynotes
Program Track Topic: Youth Engagement	Research Track Topic: Youth Development and Civic Engagement	Workforce Track Topic: Why Can’t You Just Listen and Obey! Keys for Empowering Youth
Terri Sullivan Terri Sullivan, a practice-based researcher from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Howland Chair at the University of Minnesota Extension Youth Development Center, will synthesize learning from youth development researchers and practitioners to map: · Definitions for Youth Engagement being used across the field of youth development; · Goals which youth engagement efforts are designed to achieve; and · Strategies to achieve those goals.	Molly Andolina Molly W. Andolina (Ph.D. Georgetown University) is an assistant professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. A previous survey director at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, she has published work on Generation X, youth civic involvement and the socialization of the DotNet Generation. Her most recent work is A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen, written with Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Michael Delli Carpini, and Krista Jenkins, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.	Dr. Verna Price Today’s youth live in a complex society where they are constantly influenced on every side by the good, bad and the ugly. This interactive session will explore how young people can use their personal power and intelligence to work for and not against them. Strategies for coaching young people on how to use their personal power to positively impact their lives in school and at home will be provided.