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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://casastart.org/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Conferences</title><link>http://casastart.org/files/folders/conferences/default.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)</generator><item><title>CASASTART Conference: Education and Truancy Prevention </title><link>http://casastart.org/files/folders/conferences/entry67.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:45:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bef8a9e0-2f93-456f-b9d8-1a43a47d2ca5:67</guid><dc:creator>tking</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;On June 12th, 2008 CASATSART sites from around the country came to the Crowne Plaza Hotel to be part of a conferecne geared towards Education and Truancy Prevention. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Keynotes were Ken Seeley who is the President and CEO of the National Center for School Engagement at CFFC and Jay Henry who is the Director of Truancy and Deliquency Prevention of Philadelphia Department of Human Services. &lt;/p&gt;Workshop facilitators were Sonya Lopez: &amp;quot;Youth at Risk&amp;quot;: What is Intensive Case Management?; Hilaria Bauer: &lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Turning Schools Around In Your Community;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Ken Seeley: &lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;"&gt;Truancy Prevention: Keeping children in school and interested&lt;/span&gt;, Jay Alire: &lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;"&gt;Racial Equity and Youth Development in&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Education;&lt;/span&gt; Ann-Margaret Gutierrez: &lt;span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;COLOR:black;FONT-FAMILY:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;#39;Times New Roman&amp;#39;;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-font-kerning:14.0pt;"&gt;Keeping&amp;nbsp;Middle School Students Interested In Your Program; &lt;/span&gt;Jay Henry and Judge Joan Byer: &lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;"&gt;Truancy Prevention-Using family court to reduce truancy&lt;/span&gt; 
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&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;"&gt;&lt;span style="language:EN;"&gt;Attached, is the presentation for the first keynote speaker, Ken Seeley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://casastart.org/files/folders/67/download.aspx" length="480909" type="application/pdf" /></item><item><title>Conference Brochure: Education and Truancy Prevention, June 12, 2008</title><link>http://casastart.org/files/folders/conferences/entry60.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:04:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bef8a9e0-2f93-456f-b9d8-1a43a47d2ca5:60</guid><dc:creator>bdemarzo</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description><enclosure url="http://casastart.org/files/folders/60/download.aspx" length="129650" type="application/pdf" /></item></channel></rss>