[Prevention] Dennis Embry is Coming to Maine

[Joanna Morrissey]

My apologies for any cross postings...but

Dr. Dennis Embry is coming to Maine!

Raising Healthy Kids:
Strategies for the Whole Community
May 21; 7-8:30 pm; South Portland High 

ADMISSION IS FREE

FMI and registration: www.mcd.org/registrations.asp

Presenter Dr. Dennis Embry will outline how our current policies and practices are harmful to our youth, and how just four simple, scientifically proven strategies can better the futures of all children.
 
Dr. Embry is a nationally acclaimed child psychologist whose work has taken him from  Sesame Street to the Secretary of Defense with stops in between. He is a National Research Advisory Council Senior Fellow and a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Intervention and the National Center on Early Adolescence, an author of evidence-based prevention programs, and an advocate of a whole-community approach to raising healthy kids.

"Imagine if every community adult did some small thing that takes nothing more than a moment..."

This program is approved for 1.5 Continuing Education Hours by the Board of Social Worker Licensure. Please pre-register if you require a certificate of attendance. 
 
This continuing nursing education activity has been submitted for approval to ANA-MAINE, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. 
 
ASL interpreters available. Venue handicapped accessible. Call for details on childcare.

This event is made possible by 21 Reasons, with the generous support of the City of Portland, People's Regional Opportunity Program, Healthy Communities of the Capitol Area, Boys to Men, Real Life. Real Talk., Greater Waterville Communities for Children and Youth, and Healthy Sebasticook Valley in conjunction with the Maine Office of Substance Abuse.


Jo Morrissey
Assistant Project Director
21 Reasons
Medical Care Development, Inc.
175 Lancaster Street, Suite 220A
Portland, ME 04101
207-773-7737
jmorrissey at mcd.org

21 Reasons is a coalition of individuals, organizations, and businesses with a common goal: to build a healthy community environment with policies, practices, and attitudes that support the drug-free development of all youth. Please join us! For more information, visit www.21reasons.org.