Westchester County Youth Bureau Hosts “Partners in Positive Youth Development” Session for Funded Programs with Special Guest Speakers.
Tuesday, April 11
9:30 a.m.
Westchester County Center
198 Central Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606
(White Plains, NY) - The Westchester County Youth Bureau is excited to bring together funded partner organizations from across the County who provide positive youth development programming to youth and families for its “Partners in Positive Youth Development” event on Tuesday, April 11 at the Westchester County Center.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer said: “We are thrilled to bring together key State and County partners to work together to improve youth programming. This event underscores the commitment that Westchester County has to supporting our youth and families.”
The Youth Bureau embraces the County’s diversity while funding and collaborating with nonprofit and government organizations to help ensure that youth and families thrive. By partnering with local youth bureaus, educational institutions, nonprofits, faith based organizations and business, the Youth Bureau ensures that there is a cross-system approach to affording positive youth development opportunities throughout the County. The positive youth development philosophy builds on the strengths of children and youth with programs and services that respond to new challenges facing our growing youth population.
Areas of focus include educational connection and achievement, civic engagement, employment, youth voice, and support for at-risk youth, among many others.
Westchester County Youth Bureau Executive Director Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden said: “Government cannot act alone to ensure that communities offer developmentally rich environments that foster positive youth development. We are grateful to have the support of the County Executive and partners within New York State and the local community to scaffold the most vulnerable. Today’s keynote and guest speakers lend expertise in the field of positive youth development from a research and practice perspective, while the operational training led by the Youth Bureau’s team affords space for funded agencies to receive valuable information on how to effectively administer programs.”
The event will begin with a keynote address on positive youth development from Dr. Nina Aledort, Deputy Commissioner, Division of Youth Development and Partnerships for Success in the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, followed by special guest speaker Dr. Naresh Rao, a renowned Olympic physician, who will talk about youth physical and mental wellbeing. After the speakers, the Youth Bureau staff will provide a programmatic information and training session to the youth service providers.
Dr. Nina Aledort has been a practitioner and policy maker for more than 25 years with a focus on improving outcomes for youth with significant vulnerabilities, using positive youth development, gender-responsive frameworks and harm reduction. Areas of expertise include LGBTQ, runaway and homeless, trafficked, and incarcerated/court-involved youth. She has an M.S.W. from Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in social welfare from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Dr. Naresh Rao is the founder and CEO of MAX Sports Health, a digital health and wellbeing company whose mission is to solve health inequity using the Olympic model. He is a primary care sports medicine specialist and has served a team physician for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is currently preparing for the Paris 2024 Games. Dr. Rao is on faculty at NYU School of Medicine, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Mt. Sinai Beth Israel.
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