VJJA Tidewater District Announces

23rd Annual Spring Institute 

"Searching for Buried Treasure"

We are excited to offer two days of quality training to VJJA members! We hope you will find the topics timely and informative. Lunch on both days is included in the registration.  DRESS IS CASUAL!   We will also be collecting travel size personal items to donate to a local juvenile facility as a community service project, so please bring a donation with you to the conference.

YOU CANNOT REGISTER AT THE TRAINING OR BY EMAIL!  Money MUST accompany your registration form. E-mail confirmations will be sent.  The training will be held in the Festival Center at the Quality Inn at the oceanfront.  Parking (free) is available on the 1^st floor of the 9^th Street Parking Garage.  You MUST enter the Parking Garage from Atlantic Avenue to get the free parking!  ROOM RATES are $65 if you would like to stay, and all rooms are oceanfront with balconies.  Please call 757-428-8935 to make your reservation by 3/10/15.

 The agenda is as follows:

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 

8:30 am - 9:00 am     REGISTRATION 

9:00 am - 9:30 am       Opening Remarks

 9:30 am - 12:00 pm    KEYNOTE:   Dr. Sara Malowitz, Clinical Neuropsychologist, FINR,                                     Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation)                                       Neuroanatomy: Effects of Tramatic Brain Injury 

12:00 pm -1:00 pm   LUNCH (provided)

 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS:

 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm  Debbie Coleman, LPN Area Manager FINR "Who is this Person?"                                Behaviors Related to Brain Injury

                               Adrian Atkins, CTRS Director of Therapeutic Recreation, Harbot Point                                Team Work Makes the Dream Work - includes break out group                                 activities to promote teambuilding, communication and problem solving

1:15 pm - 4:30 pm    Lynn Hightower,  President of Stop Abuse, Retired Lieutenant                               Virginia Beach Sheriff's Department:                                               Darkness to Light: Sexual Abuse Prevention                                         **(LIMITED TO 30 PEOPLE - SESSION WILL NOT REPEAT)**

 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm   Visit Vendors in Festival Center 

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm    TWO WORKSHOPS REPEATED                               

5:00 pm                  PIRATE PARTY RECEPTION   (Washington Room) w/ Limbo Contest  

   

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

9:00 am                Opening Remarks

9:30 am-12:00 pm    Kevin J. Bethel, Deputy Commissioner Patrol Operations, City of                             Philadelphia Police Department, Diversity and Diversion: How to Keep Low                            Risk Offenders out of the System

  12:00 pm -1:00 pm   LUNCH (provided)

1:00 pm – 3:30 pm    Preparing for the Worst: Workplace Violence and Active Threats                                  Virginia Beach Police Department Crime Prevention Unit                                 Officers David Nieves and Bradley Detrich

 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm    WRAP UP, DOOR PRIZES, AND EVALUATIONS

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 17, 2015

Registration Fees:

$30.00 for VJJA Members

$40.00 for Non-Members (fee includes membership through 6/30/15)

One Day Registrations Available $15.00 members $20.00 non-members

On-Line Registrations include a credit card processing fee.

Check payments do not include an additional fee.

Register by Mail to:   Mar Crippen, Portsmouth CSU

            1345 Court Street, Suite 201

             Portsmouth, VA  23704

 

Make checks paybale to VJJA.

Space is limited to 165 participants!

T-shirts will be available for purchase at the event.

A 50-50 raffle will be held to benefit the Tidewater District Holiday Food Basket Project. Must have cash to participate and "win the booty".

 

 

Register On-Line Now!