2015 PHENND Conference: Justice for All

Posted by PHENND on November 17, 2014

Register to attend the 2015 PHENND Conference

The theme this year will be “Justice for All,” and will take place at Rutgers University-Camden on Friday, February 27th.

All events will take place in the Campus Center at 326 Penn Street, Camden, NJ.

Highlights include:

– Opening Plenary Panel on #BlackLivesMatter: Racial Disparities in Health, Education, and Criminal Justice featuring:

• Dr. Doreen Loury, Arcadia University (organizing Letters to Trayvon event)
• Prof. Chad Lassiter, University of Pennsylvania and member of the PA Prison Board
• Prof. Sandra Simkins, Rutgers School of Law
• Dr. James Tuefel, Mercyhurst Institute for Public Health

– Keynote Speaker: Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center
– A dozen workshops on innovative campus-community partnerships.  See full list below.
– Community Service Directors Affinity Group meeting on the new PA Background Check law
– Awarding of the 1st Annual Lindy Award for Excellence in K-16 Partnerships
– Showing of a new short video about PHENND

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-phennd-conference-tickets-14848023839

Detailed agenda: agenda2015

Workshops will include:

• Rutgers School of Law – Camden and LEAP Academy Charter School: How a K-12 School- Law School Partnership Provides Direct Services to Students and Families (Rutgers-Camden)
• Seeking Justice Inside and Outside the Walls (Bryn Mawr)
• Promoting access to justice through multidisciplinary academic-community collaborations and medical-legal partnerships (Mercyhurst)
• Serving Students with Criminal Records: How Colleges and Community Partners Can Unlock Potential (CCP)
• School Based Youth Courts: Opportunities for Student Leadership and Civic Action (PSR Philadelphia)
• Expungement Service Learning Partnerships (CCP)
• Reflections on Tutoring In Carceral Settings (Petey Greene)
• Effectively Redesigning Higher Education Access for Marginalized Populations: How Colleges and Communities Organize (GSC)
• Engaging Elementary School Children in Their Homework: A collaboration of a Police Department, a Housing Authority, and an Institution of Higher Education (Stockton College)