Nebraska Children Events

This year's Prevention Summit will focus on the importance of strong, healthy relationships in keeping children safe and protecting them from adverse childhood experiences. You'll hear from national speakers on the latest in child abuse prevention strategies and theory, including:

• Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Ph.D.
• David Schramm, Ph.D.
• Mary Pipher
• Juli Burney

Tickets are $25 per person, and are available through 11/1. The Prevention Summit is presented by the Prevention Partnership, which is comprised of the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Nebraska Child Abuse Prevention Fund Board, and Nebraska Children and Families Foundation.

AGENDA
7:00
Registration and Breakfast

8:00
Welcome by sponsors

8:30
Family Panel

9:45
Break (15 min)

10:00
David Schramm, Ph.D., University of Missouri College of Human Environmental Sciences

11:15
Break (15 min)

11:30
Lunch
Juli Burney, teacher, humorist and author

12:30
Break (15 min)

12:45
Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Ph.D.CEO of Changing Children's Worlds Foundation and Founder of the International Child/Parent Development Program

2:00
Break (15 min)

2:15
Mary Pipher, therapist and New York Times #1 Best Selling Author

3:30
Dismiss

SPEAKER BIOS

David Schramm, Ph.D.
Dr. David Schramm is a State Extension Specialist and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Brigham Young University, his Master’s from Utah State University, and his Ph.D. in Family Studies from Auburn University. His research interests focus on couple and family relational processes, with an emphasis on relationship, parenting, and marriage education and factors predicting marital quality. He also oversees a divorce education program called Focus on Kids, in over 50 counties throughout Missouri. He has conducted research on the economic consequences of divorce for the states of Utah, Missouri, and Texas. He served as the Project Co-Director of a multi-state team of Extension Specialists that was awarded $1.2 million by the Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau to fund a five-year program called the Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education Training Project. The project involved developing and delivering a relationship and marriage education curriculum to child welfare professionals to support them in their efforts to help parents and strengthen families. With funding from Missouri’s Department of Mental Health and with support from the Children’s Trust Fund in Missouri, he recently developed a 3-hour parenting curriculum based on the five Strengthening Families protective factors that he is delivering across the state.

Juli Burney
Multiple award winning teacher, humorist and author, Juli makes an amazing connection with her audiences. She is able to entertain with the ability of a headlining comedian while either motivating or training with ease as a nationally recognized speaker. Juli has been honored by her state as Artist of the Year because of her ability to help improve people’s lives through humor and effective use of communication tools. She has worked in all 48 continental United States and Canada, and has been commissioned by a variety of associations from the National Endowment for the Arts to Fortune 500 companies to develop training programs that stick. She has filmed for Showtime and HBO, along with making numerous guest appearances on radio and television programs. Her humor is insightful, delightful, universal and enlightening which ever topic she presents.

Kimberly Svevo-Cianci
Kimberly Svevo-Cianci, Ph.D., is CEO, Changing Children's Worlds Foundation (CCWF), and Founder, International Child/Parent Development Program (ICDP-USA), in Geneva, Illinois. CCWF works locally, nationally and internationally to prevent violence against children through universal and targeted prevention and early intervention on community level, with institutions, professionals and families. CCWF was awarded the 2013-2015 Pritzker Early Education Foundation grant for ICDP programs throughout several Chicago high risk communities. President of the Child Rights and Protection Consultancy-International (CRPCI) since 2008. she has focused on leveraging children’s rights (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child) to strengthen protection of children from violence and maltreatment. Major consultation and training projects included Belarus, Colombia, Georgia, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa & USA, to leverage child rights and protection-related national policy-making to strengthen inter-sectoral CP services and systems. From 1995 until September 2008, Kimberly served as Executive Director, the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), with members in over 180 countries, working with UNICEF, WHO, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, NGO and government leaders.

Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
Dr. Pipher is a clinical psychologist and the author of nine books, including Reviving Ophelia, which was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for 26 weeks. Her area of interest is how American culture influences the mental health of its people. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with her husband Jim. Her passions are her family, being outdoors, birds, books, and protecting her state’s environment.

NEED A PLACE TO STAY?
The Cornhusker Marriott is offering a discounted rate of $99/night for people attending the prevention summit. Book your room now.