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Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summits and Events
Upcoming Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summits and Events
Past Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summits and Events
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10/14/09 - 10/15/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Louisiana Summit
CDF–Louisiana is sponsoring the second annual Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit for Louisiana. The Summit’s goal is to develop powerful strategies to dismantle the Pipeline by examining potential solutions and creating a strategic plan for Louisiana. -
10/09/09 - 10/09/09
Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit: South Carolina
Sponsored by: South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs
The Columbia Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit will address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Columbia communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
09/30/09 - 09/30/09
Pine Belt Area Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
This Summit will focus on the pipeline to prison’s devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within the Pine Belt community and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
09/24/09 - 09/24/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Dayton Regional Meeting
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Dayton regional meeting is being held as a follow up to the CDF-Ohio Statewide Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit in September 2008. This meeting will bring members of the Dayton area community together to identify and prioritize circumstances that contribute to youths’ entrance into the pipeline; examine potential solutions and develop a strategic plan to address one or two of these circumstances. -
09/17/09 - 09/17/09
America’s Pipeline to Prison: “How to Change Its Course”
The panel will explore the systemic causes of the pipeline, the impact it has had on Black males and our communities, and explore ways to dismantle this pipeline. This intergenerational dialogue is open to the public. -
09/10/09 - 09/10/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Columbus Regional Meeting
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline Columbus Regional Meeting will bring members of the Columbus area community together to identify and prioritize circumstances that contribute to youths’ entrance into the pipeline; examine potential solutions and develop a strategic plan to address one or two of these circumstances. -
09/09/09 - 09/11/09
2009 Family Preservation Institute Conference
Sponsored by: New Mexico State University
CDF-Texas will be presenting on Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline at the 2009 Family Preservation Institute Conference in Houston. -
07/15/09 - 07/15/09
Mississippi 2009 Lookin' to the Future Conference
Sponsored by: Mississippi Department of Human Services and Southern Christian Services
The 2009 Lookin' to the Future Conference will convene hundreds of social workers from across the state with an independent living component for the foster children. CDF-Southern Regional Office will lead a Cradle to Prison Pipeline® workshop for both the professional attendees as well as a youth tract component for the teens in foster care that will be in attendance. -
07/10/09 - 07/10/09
Delta Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
CDF-SRO will host the Delta Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit to address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Delta communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
06/19/09 - 06/19/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Presentation
Sponsored by: State Bar of Texas
CDF-Texas will deliver a Cradle to Prison Pipeline presentation at the Texas State Bar conference in Austin, TX. The focus of conference is juvenile justice and education. -
06/13/09 - 06/13/09
Meridian Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
CDF-Southern Regional Office will host a summit addressing the nationwide Cradle to Prison Pipeline crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Meridian communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
04/21/09 - 04/21/09
Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Oklahoma Summit
Sponsored by: City of Tulsa, Oklahoma
CDF’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign is a national call to action to stop the funneling of tens of thousands of youth, predominantly minorities, down life paths that often lead to arrest, conviction, incarceration and, in some cases, death. This Summit will address the nationwide crisis, its devastating impact on children, youth and their families, particularly within Oklahoma communities and identify effective strategies to dismantle the pipeline. -
02/26/09 - 02/27/09
National/California Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit
This two-day summit in Sacramento, California on February 26-27, 2009 convened more than 500 attendees who shared promising approaches and developed community action plans to stop the funneling of thousands of children down a pipeline to prison. -
02/11/09 - 02/11/09
CDF-NY's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots"
On February 11, 2009, more than 400 people attended CDF-NY's summit, "Connecting the Neighborhood-based Dots: Promoting Solutions to Dismantle the Pipeline to Prison." The summit focused on public awareness regarding the urgent need to address the systemic issues which are driving children from New York's poorest communities into New York's juvenile detention centers, the need to invest in successful community based alternatives to detention and promising solutions and neighborhood based approaches to dismantling the pipeline. -
01/10/09 - 01/10/09
New Orleans Workforce Participation Summit
The New Orleans Workforce Participation Summit will address how our community can create a demand for jobs made available through the rebuilding of New Orleans’ infrastructure. New Orleans will receive more than three billion dollars to rebuild the city and we want to insure that the residents of New Orleans, especially at risk youth, have fair access to these employment opportunities.


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