Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s & Talbot County Local Management Boards Present Beyond Poverty: Brain-Inspired Ways to Understand and Respond to Poverty
Poverty has a synergistic and pervasive negative impact on children’s brains. Given the many developmental windows occurring in childhood, poverty often wreaks havoc on the brain’s ability to grow and function optimally. In this workshop, participants will learn the specific impact of poverty on the developing brain, the outcomes of that damage in the classroom and the community, and the interventions that can be used to overcome poverty’s effects.
Specific, research-based strategies for combating the negative impact of poverty on learning will be introduced for infants, pre-school, and school-aged children.
The workshop will be led by Denise Thomas, MSW, who works with the Upside Down Organization to provide powerful learning experiences for the adults and organizations who serve our children and youth. Poverty is an issue many of our families are facing and this is our way of bringing a resource into the community to help us understand what we can do to help. This is a great workshop and a great organization to work with. We hope to see you there!
When
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 29, 2013
From 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Where
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE
HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER (HEC), ROOM 110
Wye Mills, MD
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