Save the Date-CDC's Grand Rounds Presents “Preventing Youth Violence,” on Tuesday, February 18, at 1 p.m. (EST).

Save the Date

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

“Preventing Youth Violence”

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EST

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Auditorium A

Roybal Campus

  

Presented By:

Howard Spivak, MD

Director, Division of Violence Prevention

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC

“Why Youth Violence Prevention is a Public Health Issue”

Deborah Gorman-Smith, PhD

Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration

Director, Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention

“Helping Communities Use the Evidence for Youth Violence Prevention”

Robert L. Listenbee Jr., JD

Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

U.S. Department of Justice

“Promoting Violence Prevention in our Communities, Achieving Impact, and Scaling Up”

Sheila Savannah, MA

Division Manager, Health Planning, Evaluation and Program Development Office 

Houston Department of Health and Human Services 

“How Comprehensive Youth Violence Prevention is Working in Houston”

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds 

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds 

  

For CDC staff unable to attend the event: 

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision. To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

For non-CDC staff or those outside of the CDC firewall:

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team.Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

For CDC staff requiring reasonable accommodations:

It is the policy of CDC to provide reasonable accommodations (RA) for qualified individuals with disabilities to ensure their full inclusion in CDC-sponsored training events. Employees must submit RA requests at least two weeks before the training event. Please e-mail the request to grandrounds@cdc.gov. 

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