April 11th in New York City-ISS-USA to Celebrate Launch of New Implementing Guidelines
Click here for more info–> Moving Forward

April 5th & 6th – National Conference on Immigration Research at UM!
Immigrant Families as They Really Are Conference was held at The Newman Alumni Center, and it brought together national immigrant family researchers and local immigration practitioners to discuss some of the intricacies of immigrant families and the challenges they face as they carve their way into American society.  To view presentations please click here –> Contemporaryfamilies.org

CEW Brown Bag Seminar

February 11th – Dr. Walter Secada “There and Back Again: A Professor’s Tale (MB 318)

March 18th -  Dr. Kent Burnett & Dr. Margaret Crosbie-Burnett “Sowing the Seeds of Well-Being” (MB 220)

April 8th – Dr. Joseph Signorile & Dr. Kysha Harriell “Yoga from the Ethereal to the Practical”
(MB 318)

Community Well-Being Forum

February 13th – Dr. Pedro Noguera “Creating the Schools We Need: What it will take to Leave No Child Behind” (Storer Auditorium)

Community Events

February 26th & 27th - National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges “Learning about Promising and Evidence-Based Practices in Child Custody and Domestic Violence”

March 15th – Miami-Dade Community Action and Human Services Department “Community Forum: The Important Role of Men in our Community” Newman Alumni Center

This forum provided an opportunity for leaders from ethnically diverse Black communities to come together, discuss the needs of the Black communities in the greater Miami area, and develop strategies to address these needs.  Find out more.

The EPS Department invites you to attend an Open House to learn more about degrees in Community and Social Change, Counseling, Higher Education, Human and Social Development, and Research.  The Open House will take place from 6-9pm at the Office of Alumni Relation, New Alumni Center Conference room.  Please RSVP to eps@miami.edu.

On Wednesday November 17th, 2010, from 7:45 to 8:45pm, Dr. Dan Schwartz will present core concepts of Attachment Theory in relation to psychodynamic psychotherapy, discuss the relevance of the patterns of attachment organization to dimensions of personality revealed in psychotherapy, and describe the ways that findings from attachment research can help the therapist recognize and respond to particular defensive operations and styles of relating in psychotherapeutic treatment.  For more information or to RSVP, please view the flier for this talk.

The Support Network for Teachers will have the Second follow up meeting On November 20 at the UM Merrick Bldg. room 308 starting at 8:00 a.m. till noon. They will have a focused discussion on motivation and instruction.

The Challenging Racism and Empowering Communities through Ethnocultural Research (CRECER) Team of UM’s School of Education, in partnership with the Community & Education Well-Being (CEW) Research Center and the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews (MCCJ), hosted their annual Day of Dialogue. The topic for this year’s forum was Building Bridges Across Cultures: Promoting Education.
The Day of Dialogue discussed topics such as the intersection of culture and education, cultural differences, and student-teacher interaction, with the belief that closing the gap between school and home will ultimately improve student success by boosting student self-esteem, participation, and parent-family involvement, and reducing insensitive incidents at school. The event engaged perspectives from students, parents, and school staff, in order to identify ways to support educational achievement through culturally responsive practices.  For more information, email dialogueonculture@gmail.com.

Dr. Aldarondo was invited by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services to participate in the Administration for Children and Families’ Thirteen Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference.
This year’s conference featured a dynamic format blending presentations and structured interactions to create points of synergy among research, policy and practice. The agenda focused on the most current research on welfare, employment, and family self-sufficiency programs and policies, while drawing on lessons from past research and experience in the field.  In particular, there were a number of conference sessions that highlighted issues of interest to the Latino community, including presentations by Ricardo Estrada of Instituto Del Progreso Latino on his organization’s approach to career pathways, a presentation on working with businesses in the Latino community by Juan Salgado, research on the implementation of the Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative, and a plenary talk by Yolanda Padilla on the effects of the recession on children, particularly migrant and immigrant children.  Finally, a series of “roundtables” touched on topics of interest, including a roundtable on “Research Opportunities for Underserved Communities.”