Maureen Weiss, professor and co-director of the Tucker Center in the School of Kinesiology, gave a research lecture—the Margaret Jo Safrit Lecture in Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 3.
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Nicole LaVoi, associate director of the Tucker Center and education specialist in the School of Kinesiology, will be featured in an article on overscheduled children in the fall volume of Stemwinder, a publication for 3M employees and retirees in the Twin Cities.
Professor Jeffrey Edleson (School of Social Work) and Jennifer Witt, director and associate director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA), have received a $1.3 million grant with the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Place: Cowles Auditorium/Hubert Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota/West Bank Campus, 301 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Cost: Free!
Continue reading "Oct. 22: Making family visits work for children in foster care" »
The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) Personnel Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the ICI 2008 annual awards.
Traci LaLiberte, director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, and associate professor Liz Lightfoot (Social Work) presented two papers at the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities 13th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.
Continue reading "LaLiberte and Lightfoot present in South Africa" »
A report by the Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is mentioned in an article on a local tutoring program.
The Research and Training Center for Community Living (RTC) in the Institute on Community Integration was quoted in a recent article on sponsored placements for adults with developmental disabilities.
A Welcome Home
Washington Post (D.C.) August 10, 2008
The Center for Early Education Development (CEED) was mentioned in an article on Minnesota's new child care rating system.
Parents get help in choosing child care
Star Tribune (Minn.) August 7, 2008
Consultants from the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) will be offering support via online discussions at an upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Guam Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service.
Guam CEDDERS to facilitate conference on special education services
KUAM News (Guam) August 3, 2008
An announcement from Kyla Wahlstrom, director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI), and Rich Weinberg, director of the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED):
Together, CAREI and CEED are pleased to welcome Keith Vargo as our newly hired administrative director, whose work and position is now shared between our two centers. Keith comes to CEHD from the University’s Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, where he has worked for the past 14 years. He has a broad range of administrative experience, including budget forecasting and financial reporting, staff hiring and supervision, print and Web publication production and oversight, and event management. He has a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College and has completed graduate work in cultural anthropology here at the University.
We are excited to have Keith engage in the work of shaping the shared administration for our two centers, and hope that you will join us in welcoming him to our college and into the Continuous Quality Improvement Group (CQIG). Keith’s e-mail address is vargo001@umn.edu.
Welcome to the College, Keith!
A report from the Institute on Community Integration finds that Tennessee spends more than any other state in the country to put people with disabilities in institutionalized care facilities.
Report: TN Institutionalization Costs are Highest in the Country
Public News Service (Colo.) July 22, 2008
Martha Thurlow and Christopher Johnstone of the Institute on Community Integration's National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), along with Leanne Ketterlin-Geller of the University of Oregon, have co-authored the chapter "Universal Design of Assessment" in the newly-released book Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice, published by Harvard Education Press. For further information visit www.hepg.org/hep/Book/83.
The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) has been awarded renewed five-year, $2.6 million funding from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to continue operating as Minnesota's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Since 1985 ICI has been a federally-designated UCEDD (previously called University Affiliated Programs in Developmental Disabilities), one of 67 currently funded in the nation to carry out the UCEDD mission of "working to accomplish a shared vision that foresees a nation in which all Americans, including Americans with disabilities, participate fully in their communities." For further information on UCEDDs visit www.aucd.org.
Esther Wattenberg, principal investigator for “New Populations in Rural Counties: Implications for Child Welfare," a project supported by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, announces the availability of the final report on the CASCW publications Web site.
Download the report [.pdf].
Center for Early Education and Development (CEED) field faculty member Anne Gearity gave the keynote at the June 24, 2008 Nancy Latimer Convening for Children and Families. Anne spoke on the impact of trauma on children’s development and what that means for funding investments, policy, practice, and parents.
Former CEED Director of Harris Programs Marti Erickson was honored with the Nancy Award at the event. The award honors the spirit and legacy of the convening's namesake, Nancy Latimer, an advocate for early childhood education, child abuse prevention, and rural Minnesota development who passed away in 2006.
Marti Erickson (Center for Early Education and Development) was the subject of a recent editorial in the Star Tribune.
Editorial: Laurie's in the room; where are the issues?
Star Tribune (Minn.) June 24, 2008
UPDATE: Marti also recently appeared on MPR’s Midday program, which you can hear online.
The Charles and Mabel Williams Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation recently approved a $4,075 grant for a project in the Institute on Community Integration. The project, titled "My Voice, My Vote," will bring together University, community, and government resources to motivate and teach young adults with disabilities about civic engagement and voting. The project will (a) provide a workshop to adults with disabilities specifically focused on civic engagement and voting, (b) develop and compile free downloadable materials from University and other public sources for teachers, program leaders, and individuals, and (c) make video and audio recordings of the workshop, and develop a brief video which will be made available on YouTube. Individuals with disabilities will be involved in planning the workshop and creating the video.
Marti Erickson (Center for Early Education and Development) gives parents advice on when children can be left home alone.
KARE 11 News First Edition
KARE 11 (Minn.) June 18, 2008
On May 30, Professor Oliver J. Williams (Social Work, Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community) received the 2008 Adelante Esperanza! Award from the Casa de Esperanza during their 25th Anniversary celebration. Oliver received this award for his pioneering work in the field of domestic violence and unwavering support of Casa de Esperanza as a past board member, volunteer, and supporter. Casa de Esperanza is a Minneapolis organization devoted to mobilizing Latina/Latino communities to end domestic violence.
Congratulations, Oliver!
The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is hosting its third and final art opening on Thursday, June 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. as part of the Building Art/Building Community grant offered by the CEHD Multicultural and Diversity Committee. Come tour the art in Pattee Hall and hear from artists with disabilities from local community organizations, Courage Center, and Rise, Inc., as they talk about their work over lunch in the Mary McEvoy lecture hall.
Please RSVP to webs0078@umn.edu by June 10. For more information, visit http://ici.umn.edu/news/art/.
Symposium on aging with intellectual disabilities
Tuesday, July 8
8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Johnson Great Room, McNamara Alumni Center
The Institute on Community Integration and the School of Social Work are offering an event designed to improve the lives of older adults with intellectual disabilities. This symposium will identify challenges faced by older adults with intellectual disabilities and discuss creative opportunities to improve their lives in the community. Participants will learn about current policies and practices and how to effect change in the disability and aging service systems.
Panel members and speakers will represent family support, community support services, and policy. This event is targeted to all community members interested in learning more about how to effectively support people with disabilities in the community.
Concurrent sessions include —
This event is free to the public. Registration is limited. Please register by June 27 with Jill Beaudette at jbeaudet@umn.edu or 612-624-4243. For more information, contact Marijo McBride at 612-624-6830 or mcbri001@umn.edu.
Professor Bill Doherty (Family Social Science) comments on the value of family vacations.
Help protect the family vacation
The Columbian (Wash.) May 29, 2008
Rich Weinberg, Distinguished University Teaching Professor of child psychology in the Institute of Child Development and Director, Center for Early Education and Development, and Mary Jo Kane, Professor and Chair, School of Kinesiology, and Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, will be on the "Good Enough Moms" (GEMS) radio show on FM 107, Sunday, June 1. The radio show will feature Weinberg and Kane talking about children's involvement in sport. A story on GEMS, a show that explores the many facets of motherhood in today's world, can be found at UMNNews.
On April 16 the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) held its ninth annual interactive television (ITV) state-wide conference, "Children of Incarcerated Parents," featuring Dean Creasie Finney Hairston. This conference began with a presentation from Creasie Finney Hairston, M.S.S.A., Ph.D. —the dean and a professor of social work at Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dean Hairston’s current research and many of her publications focus on the impact of incarceration and reentry on families and children, and the impact of child welfare policies on children. She edited, with Cynthia Seymour, Children with Parents in Prison: Child Welfare Policy, Program, and Practice Issues (2001).
CEED Senior Fellow Marti Erickson offers tips to parents on when and how to give young people freedom.
Marti Erickson
KARE-11 (Minn.) May 21, 2008
On May 1 the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) co-sponsored a day-long conference called "Addressing the Best Interests of Children in Immigrant and Refugee Families: Rising to the Challenge." Speakers included Randy (Randolph) Capps, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute; Tom Gillaspy, Minnesota State Demographer; Rowena Fong, Ed.D., MSW, University of Texas at Austin; and Sonia C. Velazquez, Vice-President, Children’s Division, American Humane Association.
Congratulations to Scott McConnell (Educational Psychology, CEED), who will oversee a component of the newly funded Center for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRIEC). This center is supported by a $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences awarded to the University of Kansas, with subcontract collaborators here at the University of Minnesota, at The Ohio State University, and at Dynamic Measurement Group in Eugene, Oregon.
With an overall goal of reducing the number of children with reading problems by increasing the number of children entering school with knowledge and skill in early literacy and language, CRIEC will conduct research, development, and demonstration of procedures to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) models in early childhood programs.
Good luck to Scott and his colleagues!
Professor Mark Umbreit is in Israel and Palestine (the occupied territories) this week providing restorative justice training and consultation to the Israeli Ministry of Justice and the Juvenile Probation Services. He will also be meeting with the Parents Circle, an organization of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian parents who have lost their loved ones in the conflict and have come together to support each other and speak out for ending the conflict and violence.
Mark will also meet with a colleague at the Hebrew University School of Social Work who will be a visiting scholar in the School of Social Work next year during his sabbatical. In addition, Mark will be meeting colleagues on the West Bank and working on a sniper shooting case in which an Israeli mother wants to meet the Palestinian prisoner who killed her son who was in the Israeli Defense Force. Finally, Mark will be providing a keynote address at the first Israeli Forum for Restorative Justice Conference at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) is partnering with four community organizations (Arc Greater Twin Cities, Fraser, St. David's Child Development and Family Services, and Opportunity Partners) to provide advanced leadership training in disability advocacy, policy, and services for a delegation of nine government officials, missionaries, educators, and advocates from Zambia in southern Africa. The project has recently appeared in a number of news stories.
Global self-advocacy efforts: Zambian delegation visits MN disability orgs
Access Press (Minn.) May 10, 2008
ICI (MN UCEDD) Partners on “Twin Cities and Zambia Disability Connection�
AUCD Member Spotlight (Md.) May 1, 2008
Zambians pledge the need of a stronger voice in disability advocacy
The African News Journal (Minn.) April 2008
For further information see the project’s blog.
Tucker Center Associate Director Nicole LaVoi was interviewed on local radio station FM107 on Thursday, May 1. Nicole was discussing the Tucker Center's recent report on girls and physical activity.
David R. Johnson , associate dean for research and policy, is a 2008 recipient of the University's President's Award for Outstanding Service. The award is presented each year in the spring and recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by any active or retired faculty or staff member. Recipients of this award have gone well beyond their regular duties and have demonstrated an unusual commitment to the University community.
Congratulations, David!
Charlie Lakin, director of the Research and Training Center on Community Living, is quoted in an article about how people with disabilities cope when faced with crises.
When crisis hits the disabled
Wall Street Journal (N.Y.) April 29, 2008
The Tucker Center has been recognized by the General Mills Foundation and Community Action program's Communities of Colors Grantees as serving a pivotal role in providing in-kind support in the arts, education, health, and social services. The Tucker Center will participate with a group of other recipients to discuss opportunities, challenges, and support available to deliver more effective programming to metro communities of color.
The Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development is pleased to invite you to attend an Inquiry to Impact presentation: "Physical Activity as a Context for Youth Development" on May 13 at the McNamara Alumni Center.
This free event features a panel of researchers from the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport discussing how physical activity across a variety of settings and contexts contributes to the developmental process of youth in important ways. Nicole LaVoi, research associate and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and Tucker Center associate director, and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Tucker Center affiliated scholar, will discuss findings from the newly updated version of the groundbreaking 1997 President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Report, "Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls." Maureen Weiss, professor in the School of Kinesiology and Tucker Center co-director, will discuss highlights of her research with The First Tee project, an innovative program using golf as a positive developmental context focusing on teaching young participants life skills that can be transferred to multiple domains, such as school, home, out of school activities, etc.
Please visit Inquiry to Impact to learn more and to register for this event.
The Postsecondary Education Research Institute (PERI) is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Adrianna Kezar, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. Professor Kezar will present on the topic "Campus leadership within a neoliberal environment: Crisis and critique," Monday, April 28, 2008. Please join us for a reception with refreshments at 12:30 p.m.; the lecture will begin promptly at 1:00 p.m., in 325 Education Sciences Building.
Professor Kezar's research focuses on organizational change, leadership, governance, and diversity issues in higher education. Her most recent books include Redesigning for collaboration in higher education (forthcoming), Revolutionizing leadership development in higher education (2006, editor) and Rethinking the "L" word in Leadership: The revolution in higher education (2006, with A., Contreras-McGavin, M, & Carducci, R.). Her most recent articles investigate issues surrounding institutional transformation, leadership research, and organizational learning related to diversity in higher education.
Professor Mark Umbreit (School of Social Work) is serving April 13 to 23 as a U.S. State Department Fulbright Senior Specialist providing lectures about his restorative justice research and conducting training seminars at the Catholic University Law School in Piachenza, Italy (near Milan). Mark is the Director of the Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking in the School of Social Work.
Marti Erickson, senior fellow and director of the Harris Programs in CEED, is quoted in an article on the new Saint Paul Game Nights program, sponsored by the Junior League of St. Paul.
St. Paul / Families can gather for leisure time
Pioneer Press (Minn.) April 14, 2008
A report released today by the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport shows that girls are participating in sports in record numbers, but their participation in physical activity outside of organized sports is declining, especially as they move from childhood into adolescence. The report will be highlighted in an upcoming lecture 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., April 22, in the Cowles Auditorium of the Hubert Humphrey Center.
U report: Girls in sports in record numbers, but informal activity lagging
Star Tribune (Minn.) April 14, 2008
Girls play more sports, but are less active
MPR (Minn.) April 14, 2008
Girls participation in sports not active enough, despite record high
Thaindian News (Bangkok, Thailand) April 14, 2008
Girls participating in sports in record numbers
US News & World Report (D.C.) April 14, 2008
Study: Young girls and exercise
WABC (N.Y.) April 15, 2008
Research: Girls not getting enough exercise
NECN (Mass.) April 14, 2008
More girls playing the field in Minnesota
KIMT (Iowa) April 14, 2008
The Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI) was mentioned in a recent article on Director Ben Perry's departure from Minneapolis Schools' North Side Initiative.
Perry's departure leaves void at the top
Star Tribune (Minn.) April 8, 2008
Amy Hewitt, training and project director in the Research and Training Center on Community Living within ICI, comments on Utah's statewide shortage of direct-care professionals.
State tackles shortage of direct-care workers
Deseret Morning News (UT) April 8, 2008
Marti Erickson, director of the Harris Programs in CEED, says connecting kids and the outdoors has a positive impact in this U of M Moment.
Case of "Nature Deficit Disorder?" Try a "Green Hour"
April 3, 2008
What: The final colloquium in the Center for Neurobehavioral Development's (CNBD) Spring Colloquium Series: Genetic Approaches to Behavioral Development
Title: "Eph Proteins and Auditory Brainstem Development"
Speaker: Karina Cramer, Ph.D. (Department of Neurobiology and Behavior), University of California-Irvine
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: 3 to 4 p.m.
In mid-March, CEED Senior Fellow Marti Erickson traveled to Arusha, Tanzania to launch a child rights project she is co-leading with Gerison Lansdown, a child rights expert from England. The project will work with leaders from Tanzanian government agencies and NGOs to develop a system for training health, education, and human service workers to use a child rights framework to understand and promote the health and development of young children (birth through age 8) throughout Tanzania. This was the first of four trips Marti will make to Tanzania over the next year and a half as part of this project.
CEED Senior Fellow Marti Erickson was quoted in an article about the Tamarack Nature Center and the conference "Nature, Children, and Families: A Necessary Connection." Erickson commented about the benefits of giving children contact with natural environments.
Tamarack Nature Center influences kids to enjoy great outdoors
Pioneer Press (Minn.) April 1, 2008
Marti Erickson (Director, Harris Programs, CEED) will be speaking at the upcoming "Nature, Children, and Families: A Necessary Connection" conference. In her presentation, "Healing the Broken Bond between Children and Nature," Marti will discuss today's relationship between children and the outdoors and the importance of strengthening that bond.
Nature, Children, and Families: A Necessary Connection
Friday, April 4, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
MacMillan Auditorium
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska
From Dean Darlyne Bailey:
It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Ann Edgerton as the new Director of the University of Minnesota Child Care Center (UMCCC). As many of you know, Ann comes to us most recently from Monterey Peninsula College in California. She brings a broad range of educational and professional experiences and expertise to our position. She has been teaching infant/toddler development and caregiving as well as administration of child care centers at Monterey Peninsula College. Prior to that, she was the director of the Child Development Center at California State University, Monterey Bay. She has experience with Head Start programs and has been an advocate for the underserved. Ann lived and studied in Europe for a number of years receiving a teaching diploma in the Montessori method and later study and research trips with West Ed/PITC, a program for infant and toddler caregivers in Reggio Emilia and Pistoia, Italy. She has a master of education in early childhood development/ECE. In addition she has experience in advocacy and fundraising. She is very knowledgeable about child development theories and childcare issues and "best practices." She will bring a renewed commitment to training and research to the UMCCC and be a strong advocate for the UMCCC.
Come hear research updates from CEHD faculty and staff affiliated with the Minnesota Center for Reading Research, with time for Q&A with the presenters. The topics include: "Promoting Teacher Reflection through Effective Coaching Conversations" (Bobbie Burnham & Debra Peterson); "Successful Teachers of Reading for ELL" (Lori Helman); and "An Updated Review of Literature on Effective Reading Instruction" (Barbara Taylor). Beverages will be provided.
Research Directions in Reading - Bag Lunch Panel Discussion
R385 Vo-Tech Education Building
Friday, April 4
For more information visit http://www.cehd.umn.edu/reading/events/ or contact Ingrid Cook (iccook@umn.edu, 612-624-9147).