VCU to sponsor Youth-Violence Prevention Forum

From the VCU press release:

RICHMOND, Va. – In response to the numerous cases of youth violence reported around the nation, Virginia Commonwealth University will bring together families, educators, mental-health professionals and community and youth leaders to discuss how they can work together to curb the growing problem.

Presented by the VCU Department of Psychiatry’s Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, the 39th annual Child Psychiatry Spring Forum, to be held from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on May 11, will focus on “Exploring Partnerships for Peaceful Communities: Enhancing Positive Youth Choices and Breaking the Cycle of Violence.”

The daylong program will present successful violence-prevention programs, along with ideas for forming partnerships between communities and universities. The forum will highlight the new VCU Center on Youth Violence Prevention, which was recently funded with $1.2 million from the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The forum will include performances by the Richmond Girls’ Choir and “Drums, No Guns!,” a national youth movement for the prevention of handgun violence. Students from Open High School in Richmond’s Oregon Hill neighborhood will perform with “Drums, No Guns!”

The program will be held at the VCU Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. Registration for the event is $45, which includes lunch and parking. For more information or to register, contact Eunice Seaborn at (804) 828-4393 or at CICFS@vcu.org.

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