For Parents, School Students, Staff, Faculty, Social Service Agency Providers, Community Activist and Advocates and Block Captains
A Peace-a-thon and Save the Children Campaign event kick off for the Month of November 2022
Positive Youth Development Conference
Saturday, October 29, 2022
8am - 4pm
Free and Open to the Public
Contact: 267-349-5661
Panel Discussion and Workshop Presentation Schedule
8:30am Opening
8:45am - 10:00am
Title: Black Male Youth Aggression
10:00am - 11:00am
Title: Youth at Risk with the House of Umoja and Others
11:00am-Noon 12:00pm
Title: Children and Youth Entrepreneurship
12:00pm-1:00pm
(Lunch with West Phillie Produce)
Keynote Performance: Bestselling, Critically Acclaimed and Awardwinning Author Dr. Neal Hall, Surgeon Poet
Title: What Does it Mean to Be Colored in America
1:00pm-2:00pm
Penn Community Scholars (Akhenaton Mikell and Arnett Woodall) Presentation
Title: School Shootings and Community Violence
2;00pm-3:30pm
Title: Mothers of Courage: Unfinished Business and Why Womens Work is Never Done
(In Honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Million Woman March)
3:30pm Closing Remarks
Vendors will be available throughout the event and Authors will also be doing book signings
-(Note: This Conference and November 2022 Positive Youth Development Month scheduling of Events is supported or sponsored by the Alternative Learning Institute, Imani Star Development, Inc., A & W Community Solutions, Henderson Home and Care Agency, National Million Woman March, National Men of Color Association, National African-American Student Leadership Conference, Association of African-American Young Entrepreneurs Association, National Give Back to Kids Campaign, National Training Institute for Faith Based Initiatives and Neighborhood Church Enterprises, House of Umoja and the New Jersey African-American Studies Conference, amongst other organizations, agencies, groups and institutions)
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November 2022 is Positive Youth Development Month
Other events scheduled
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Celebration and Kick Off of the National Million Woman March Anniversary
One Art Center
1431-39 North 52nd Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19131
Contact: 267-636-3802
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Center for Male Engagement
Community College of Philadelphia
Winnet Building, Room S2-03
17th & Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Keynote Speaker: Arnett Woodall
Title: Social Justice and Reform
Free and Open to the Public
Contact: 267-334-5317
Free Performance!!!!
The National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour and the Adelphia Theater Company Presents.....
"Everyman Black: From Manchild to the Promiseland" with Dr. Neal Hall
Thursday, November 3, 2022
6pm and 8pm
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19104
Contact: 267-349-5661
Please reserve tickets
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Community Heroes Awards Dinner
Recipient Arnett Woodall
Presented by Penn Center for Community Health Workers
6pm-7:30pm
First District Plaza
3801Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19104
Contact: 267-349-5661
Thursday, November 17, 2022
7pm - 9pm
Free and Open to the Public
National Black Authors Tour and National Black Arts Spoken Tour presents....
MWM National Black Poetry Day Open Mic and Featured Reading with Dr. Neal Hall
Live-in Person Event and Zoom
Imani Star Development Center
148 S. 60th Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Contact: 267-349-5661
148 S. 60th Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19143
FUTURE PLANS/Forthcoming events:
National Give Back to Kids Campaign Conference, March 2023 in Philadelphia
Contact: 917-319-1963