Our future is collectively built. Let's bring the best of what we have.
Research and practice, together.
How are we going to spend one and a half days together? By learning, listening, and offering what we can in the service of the whole. Come prepared to learn from all that are present, to ask difficult questions, to offer your courageous observations, and to grow your leadership in your work - whether you come as a human services professional or leader, a researcher, a community partner, or a student.
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Our Speakers
Our summit features these amazing changemakers from research, policy, and practice. Click on their names to learn more about their work.
Lehn Benjamin
Indiana University Session topic: The Human Dynamics of Helping: Lessons for Human Service Providers. |
Teresa Eckrich Sommer
Northwestern University Session topic: The Effects of a Two-Generation Human Capital Intervention on Low-Income Parent and Their Young Children in Head Start. |
Greg Fabiano
University of New York at Buffalo Session topic: Getting Dads Off the Sidelines: Engaging and enhancing father involvement in families |
Raquel Hatter
Kresge Foundation Part of the Day Two panel on multi-generational approaches to improving human services. |
Colleen Heflin
Syracuse University Session topic: Implications of Material Hardship on Service Delivery |
Anne Mosle
Ascend at the Aspen Institute Part of the Day Two panel on multi-generational approaches to improving human services. |
Eric Pakulak
University of Oregon Session topic: Training brains to regulate stress: an integrated two-generation approach. |
Gloria Perez
Jeremiah Program Part of the Day Two panel on multi-generational approaches to improving human services. |
Sheri Stronach
University of Minnesota Session topic: Building Community Support for Young Children with Autism and Their Families |
Lane Volpe
Boulder County Session topic: The Importance of Quality Implementation for Integrated Models of Human Services Delivery |
Tracy Wareing Evans
American Public Human Services Association Part of the Day Two panel on multi-generational approaches to improving human services. |
Marci Ybarra
University of Chicago Session topic: Effective service responses for newcomers: Working with immigrants |
Katherine Lingras
University of Minnesota Session topic: Improving Access to Care for Young Children: Building Providers' Mental Health Knowledge and Skills |
Rebecca Shlafer
University of Minnesota Session topic: Supporting Maternal and Child Health: the Experience of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project |
Our schedule
Throughout the 1.5 days we will spend together, you will be in a combination of large sessions and smaller breakout sessions of your choosing. Our breakout session tracks are frontline conditions, program design, and policy & systems alignment.
May 14
8.30 - 9.00 am: Registration & Breakfast 9.00 - 10.00 am: Welcome Dean Laura Bloomberg Professor Jodi Sandfort Opening Performance Melinda Lee and Chavonn Williams Shen 10.15 - 11.45 am: Breakout session 1
11.45 - 12.30 pm: Lunch 12.45 - 2.15 pm: Breakout session 2
2.30 - 4.00 pm: Breakout session 3
4.15 - 5.00pm: What's in store for tomorrow Opportunity to pitch your topic ideas for Day 2 5.00 - 6.30 pm: Reception |
May 15
8.00 - 9.00 am: Breakfast 9.00 - 10.00 am: Plenary panel: Engaging in a movement to create systems that serve whole families
10.00 - 11.30 am: Redesigning our work 11.30 - 12.00 pm: Wrap-up and closing remarks 12.00 pm: Adjourn and lunch to go |
Our Vendor
Breaking Bread | This social enterprise increases healthy food access in North Minneapolis and creates jobs for individuals with barriers to employment. With a holistic training model combining culinary arts and food service management training with life skills and workforce readiness, our café serves as a professional launchpad for North Minneapolis residents. For more information, click here.
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Appetite For Change (AFC) uses food as a tool to build health, wealth and social change in North Minneapolis. Our organization is community driven, food justice minded and committed to sustainability. Established in 2011, our programs and services are built directly on the needs and interests expressed by community members at our first shared meal events. These early dialogues around the table became the framework for Community Cooks, a flagship AFC program. Our founders Michelle Horovitz, Latasha Powell and Princess Titus share a commitment to AFC’s community driven organizational model. Together they envision Appetite For Change as the catalyst for a North Minneapolis movement toward racial, economic and health equity. For more information, please click here.
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