VJJA Tidewater District Spring Institute is FULL!

Please contact Marc Crippen to be placed on the waiting list.

The VJJA Tidewater District is excited to offer two days of quality training to VJJA members! We hope you will find the topics timely and informative. Lunch on both days is included in the registration.  DRESS IS CASUAL!   We will also be collecting travel size personal items to donate to a local juvenile facility as a community service project, so please bring a donation with you to the conference.

YOU CANNOT REGISTER AT THE TRAINING OR BY EMAIL!  Money MUST accompany your registration form. E-mail confirmations will be sent.  The training will be held at the Holiday Inn and Suites 3900 Atlantic Avenue Virginia Beach.  Free parking is available.  ROOM RATES are $96 per night plus tax. If you would like to stay, and all rooms are oceanview Please call 757-428-1711 to make your reservation by 3/7/2017 and mention Virginia Juvenile Justice Association or online at hpps://aws.passkey.com/event/15102241/owner/28338/home 

 The agenda is as follows:

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017 

8:00 am - 9:00 am     REGISTRATION / Vendor Visitation / Light Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:30 am       Opening Remarks -  Department of Juvenile Justice

 9:30 am - 12:00 pm    KEYNOTE:  

 "Reach out communication, using body language insights to "hear" and understand children, families and your co-workers in more powerful and less stressfull interactions"   Patti Wood, MA, Body Language Expert  

12:00 pm -1:00 pm   LUNCH (provided)

 1:00 pm – 1:15 pm  Vendor Visitation

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm    Afternoon Workshops (select one, workshops repeat)

Unsderstanding LGBTQ Youth Population, Mary Aab, Director LGBT Center of Hampton Roads

Transitioning Court Service Units to a Trauma-Informed Organization, Greg Heywood, Supervisor, Newport News Court Service Unit

"REVIVE! is the Opiod Overdose and Naloxone Education (OONE) program for the Commonwealth of Virginia", Paul Greggs, Hampton/Newport News Community Services Board

 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm   Vendor Visitation

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm    WORKSHOPS REPEATED                               

5:00 pm                  RECEPTION  w/ Limbo Contest and Photo Booth

    

FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017

8:30 am - 9:00 am     Vendor Visitation / Light Breakfast

9:00 am                  All Aboard! Opening Remarks

9:30 am-12:00 pm    General Session:

"Juvenile Sex Offenders" Normalizing and decriminalizing developmentally notmal adolescent sexuality, Greg Mahan, LCSW, Director Peninsula Psycho Therapy

 12:00 pm -1:00 pm   LUNCH (provided)

1:00 pm - 1:15pm     Vendor Visitation

1:15 pm – 3:45 pm    Tidewater Gang Activity- Gang Task Force Officers

 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm    Final Vendor Visits, Wrap Up, Door Prizes, and 50/50 drawing

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: MARCH 21, 2017

EARLY BIRD FEES: Ended 3/7/17

REGISTRATION AFTER 3/7/2017

$40.00 for  VJJA Members

$50.00 for Non-Members (fee includes membership through 6/30/17)

One Day Registrations Available $30.00 members $40.00 non-members

On-Line Registrations include a credit card processing fee.

Check payments do not include an additional fee.

 Register by Mail to:   Marc Crippen, Portsmouth CSU

   1345 Court Street, Suite 201

             Portsmouth, VA  23704

 

Make checks paybale to VJJA.

Space is limited to 170 participants!

T-shirts will be available for pre-order with limited quantity available at the event. Pre-orders only accepted until 3/7/2017. See this year's design below.

A 50-50 raffle will be held to benefit the Tidewater District Holiday Food Basket Project. Must have cash to participate and be present to win.

 

Register On-Line Now!