Featured Speakers/Presenters
- Judge Michael Nash, Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court
- Judge Donna Quigley Groman, Kenyon Juvenile Justice Center
- Mark Feierstein, U.S.A.I.D.
- Enrique Roig, U.S.A.I.D.
- Dr. Erick Walsh, City of Pasadena Department of Public Health
- L.A. City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
- L.A. City Deputy Mayor Guillermo Cespedes
- L.A.U.S.D. Board President Mónica García
- Dr. Ruby Alice Skinner, Kern Medical Center
- Councilmember Jacque Robinson, City of Pasadena
- Los Angeles School Police Chief Steven Zipperman
- Luis Rodriguez, Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural
- Leslie Anne Ross, Psy.D., Children's Institute, Inc.
- Bobby Arias, MSW, Communities in Schools
- Dr. T. Shepherd, St. Francis Medical Center
- Billie Weiss, MPH, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
- Dr. Carnell Cooper, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland
- Chief Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department
- Connie Rice, Esq., Advancement Project
Plenary Sessions
- Exporting Solutions: The Los Angeles GRYD Family Centered Secondary Prevention Model and the Process of Implementation in Central America
- The Implementation of Change
- Re-assessing punitive culture; building an infrastructure that supports prevention and early intervention as a key school safety strategy (post-Newtown)
Breakout Session Topics
- Seeing Violence as an Epidemic
- Community Connections: Models of School-Community Partnerships
- Collaborative Violence Reduction Strategies
- Community Trauma: Connecting Hospitals to the communities they serve
- Heal the Healer: Building Resiliency in the Workplace
- Community Coordination and the Pasadena Vision 2020 Model
- Dis-assembling the school to prison pipeline: prevention and reintegration for youth
- Reducing Retaliation: Coordinated Immediate Response Teams
- Providing Mental Health Support for marginalized/traumatized youth population
- Rites of Passage: Initiation & Ritual as a Violence Prevention/Intervention Model
- Implementing the Public Health Frame to Violence Reduction Strategies
- Restorative Justice
- USAID Citizen Security efforts in Latin America and Caribbean
- Federal Funding for Violence Reduction, Education, and Career Development
- Changing the Frame: The Role of Media in De-normalizing Violence
- Collaboration in Practice: The San Fernando Valley Coalition on Gangs Model
- National Sports Program as a Prevention Strategy
- Violence Reduction Training Strategies
- Gang Involved Girls
- Starting Inside: Arts-Based Intervention as a Strategy for Detained Youth