Soar TO Reach New Peaks: Educating ALL Our Children and Youth, NAEHCY Annual Conference

Deadline: June 1st, 2009

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) cordially invites presenters to submit a proposal to present at the 21st Annual Conference at the Marriott City Center in Denver, Colorado November 14-17, 2009.

The Conference theme is Soar to Reach New Peaks: Educating ALL Our Children and Youth. We are searching for education and community-based presenters who represent diverse backgrounds, roles, responsibilities, and experiences in serving homeless children and youth. We are interested in proposals that represent rural and suburban, as well as urban areas.

Purpose
The 21st Annual Conference will provide research-based and best practice professional development opportunities, which focus on ensuring that every child and youth experiencing homelessness is successful – academically, personally, and socially. Presentation materials from recent conferences can be found through the annual conference section of our web site: http://www.naehcy.org.

Over the past twenty years, the NAEHCY Conference has been a showcase for best practice activities and services that are being implemented across the United States. Workshops and pre-conference institutes are intended to create a common vision, to be practical, and to model strategies proven effective or successful in helping children and youth from homeless situations succeed. The success of this Conference will result from the expertise of our presenters to provide participants a better understanding of how to achieve academic success for homeless children and youth.

Audience
We anticipate over 700 attendees from across the United States and its territories, including state coordinators for the education of homeless children and youth, local homeless education liaisons, homeless service providers, school district administrators and program coordinators, educators, preschool and care providers, policy-makers, child welfare workers – and all who care about ensuring school academic achievement and the overall success for children and youth whose lives have been disrupted by the lack of safe, permanent, and adequate housing.

See http://www.naehcy.org/conf/present.html for more information.