"Extending
The Zone: Creating Positive Opportunities For Families And
Communities"
A community-wide
seminar featuring Geoffrey Canada and senior staff from the Harlem Children's
Zone
Monday, November 5,
2007
With
Every Challenge There is Opportunity...
This one day
conference will focus on family and community challenges that present
opportunities for creative and effective solutions as offered by the senior
management team of the Harlem Children's Zone. Members of the team will present
programs and services designed to meetthe needs of youth and families in a
diverse urban setting. Each workshop will include a presentation by Harlem
Children's Zone staff with an extended opportunity for conversation and problem
solving discussion with local stakeholders.
Keynote Speech by
Geoffrey Canada-Hotel Viking
10:45-12:00 Session I:
Challenges and Solutions (multiple locations)
12:15-1:15 Lunch Hotel
Viking Ballroom
1:30-3:00 Session II:
Challenges and Solutions (multiple locations)
3:15-4:00 Closing
session (location to be announced)
In
a June 2004 cover story in The New
York Times Magazine, the agency's Zone
Project was called "one of the most ambitious social experiments of our time."
The project offers an interlocking network of social service, education and
community-building programs to thousands of children and families in a 60 block
area of Central Harlem. In October 2005, Mr. Canada was named one of "America's
Best Leaders" by U.S. News and World Report. The work of Mr. Canada and the HCZ has become a
national model and has been the
subject of many profiles in the media. Their work has been featured on
"60 Minutes," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America," "Nightline,"
"CBS This Morning," "The Charlie Rose Show," "National Public Radio's "On
Point," as well as in articles in The New York Times, U.S. News
& World Report, The New York Daily News, USA Today, Newsday, The Boston
Globe and Town and
Country Magazine.
Locations: Multiple
Locations; To Be Announced