Community Advocacy and Violence Prevention Summit
Event Information
About this Event
What can we do to address violence in our communities?
This unique solution-based forum will bring together community leaders and professionals across several disciplines for an in-depth exchange of current information on intervention and violence prevention strategies.
Featured address:
Eddie Bocanegra, Senior Director of READI Chicago, a project of Heartland Alliance
Free and open to the public
Agenda:
• 8:00 AM - Registration and breakfast
• 8:30 AM - Featured Address: Eddie Bocanegra, READI Chicago *
• 9:30 AM - Session 1: Jakki Alexander, Illinois Youth Center, Department of Juvenile Justice *
• 10:30 AM - Session 2: Sheela Raja, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 11:30 AM - Session 3: Zach Honoroff, University of Chicago Crime Lab
• 12:15 PM - Lunch and Closing Remarks
NEWLY ADDED:
- 12:30 PM - Stop the Bleed Training - Register HERE to participate in this additional activity held immediately after the summit. SEE Something. DO Something. SAVE a LIFE.
Detailed Agenda to follow
* CME Credit for LUHS Physicians for 8:30 Featured Address & 9:30 Session 1
* Ethics Grand Rounds credit, CCGH Honors Supported Lecture credit
Sponsored by: Loyola Stands Against Gun Violence, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Center for Community and Global Health, Health Sciences Campus Ministry, and Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
Contact lucgarcia@luc.edu with questions