MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
September 23, 2011
MSASS Youth Violence Consortium to Honor Congressman Stokes
On Friday, September 30, The Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center at MSASS and the Partnership for a Safer Cleveland will host a seminar featuring Dr. John A. Rich and former U.S. Rep. Louis B. Stokes. The seminar will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1100 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Researchers from the Begun Center will be naming The Greater Cleveland Consortium on Youth Violence Prevention in honor of Stokes. This is a special event since Stokes is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at MSASS.
Dr. Rich is the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men. He also is a professor and chair for the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
The consortium is the result of an NIH - National Institute on Child Health and Development grant. Professors Daniel Flannery and Mark Singer are the principal investigators. They will collaborate with Michael Walker, executive director of the Partnership for a Safer Cleveland, to conduct community-informed violence prevention research.
Guests also will learn more about a newly announced Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant that provides police initiated services to individuals exposed to violence in Cleveland public housing. (This is the grant that is affiliated with the Police Assisted Referral Program, featured on the Case Think website.) The seminar will also mark the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Partnership for a Safer Cleveland.
After the seminar, the first board meeting of the Louis Stokes Greater Cleveland Consortium on Youth Violence Prevention will be held.