Mission

... to be a catalyst for collaborative efforts to create, sponsor, and endorse educational and social programs designed to help children thrive.

The Community Coalition for Children began in the fall of 1996, to serve the needs of families throughout the region. Our unique collaboration of public, independent and alternative schools, institutions, and community service organizations sponsors dynamic and informative presentations and Teen Summits with practical solutions for living and working with children.

The major vehicle for our efforts is an annual two-day presentation and workshop combination hosted at The Garde Arts Center and Connecticut College. Participants have given us extremely positive feedback regarding our efforts to meet our goals.

Building Resilience in Children & Teens

GUEST SPEAKER:

Kenneth R. Ginsburg MD, MS Ed

Dr. Ginsburg is an Associate Professor whose general adolescent medicine practice often addresses adolescent behavioral issues. He practices Social Adolescent Medicine: Medicine with special attention to prevention and the recognition that social context and stressors impact upon both physical and emotional health. The theme that ties together his clinical practice, teaching, research, and advocacy efforts is that of building on the strength of teenagers by fostering their internal resilience.

He is The Medical Director for Covenant House, Pennsylvania, a care system that serves homeless, street, and marginalized youth in Philadelphia. While the shelter-based clinic serves all of the health needs of its patients, it focuses on stress as the underlying force that drives most behaviors that risk good health.

He developed the Teen-Centered method which is a mixed qualitative/ quantitative methodology used to facilitate youth to generate, prioritize, and explain their own proposed solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them. He has over 80 publications including 20 original research articles, clinical practice articles and chapters, three books, and video/DVD productions.

He lectures widely to national and international parent and professional audiences. His first book “But I’m Almost Thirteen: An Action Plan to Raise a Responsible Adolescent,” focused on parent-child communication. The American Academy of Pediatrics published two of his books, "A Parent’s Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings,” and “Less Stress, More Success,” which focuses on getting into college while remaining socially and emotionally balanced. The Academy also offers his stress reduction plan for teenagers in pamphlets in doctors’ offices around the nation as well as on the interactive website www.aap.org/stress where teenagers can design and retrieve a personalized stress management tool. Military health professionals, counselors, and teachers use the stress reduction and resilience building strategy to serve two million military children as they cope with their parent’s deployment.

 

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Monday, October 26, 2009; 7:00 p.m
Garde Arts Center, 325 State Street, New London, CT

Intergenerational Workshop
Tuesday, October 27, 2009; 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Crozier-Williams Center
Connecticut College Campus – Route 32, New London, CT

…FREE PUBLIC EVENTS

Parents • Grandparents • Students • Teachers • Counselors • Social Service Agencies • Coaches • Religious Groups

Child care registration required
Call 860-701-5150

Simultaneous Sign, Spanish, and Chinese translations provided on Monday