Events & Outreach
Rural Counties Forum
In These Distressing Times: Fresh Responses to Vulnerable Children in High-Risk Families: A Prevention Focus
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Place: The Owatonna Arts Center
435 Garden View Lane
Owatonna, Minnesota 55060
Registration is now closed.
Of Special Interest:
Assessment and Services for Young Children in Immigrant Families Exposed
to Traumatic Events
Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D., L.P.
Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota,
Project Director, Ambit Network—A Center of the National Child Traumatic
Stress Network
The Concept of “Child Find”
Esther Wattenberg, Professor
School of Social Work, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Associate, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
University of Minnesota
Audience Discussion/Participation
This forum is being offered through support from a grant of the
Children’s Trust Fund,
Minnesota Department of Human Services
And under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work;
the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, with additional assistance from the Southern Minnesota Initiative
Foundation