Center for Suburban Criminal Justice Holds Community Conference on "Conversations with Bergen County Youth"
By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, June 03, 2009, 06:36 PM EDT
Bergen Community College's Center for Suburban Criminal Justice will hold a community conference on "Conversations with Bergen County Youth." The Center's partner colleges Westchester Community College, Norwalk Community College and Humber College will also take part in the conference.
This conference will provide administrators, policymakers, educators, social service agencies, criminal justice leaders, and parents with an opportunity to learn about what young people are experiencing at school. Under a $259,000 federal grant and a PSE&G grant, The Center for Suburban Criminal Justice has conducted seminars with nearly 3,000 high school, middle school, and elementary school students throughout Bergen County, whereby youth participated in electronic clicker surveys as well as face-to- face interviews with Bergen Community College students.
Thursday, June 11 at 9:30 a.m. in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus.
This conference serves as an excellent opportunity to encourage dialogue between parents, policymakers, and professionals who serve the youth. The goal of the conference is to disseminate new research that has been collected at the seminars with the students. This type of data collection has never been done before in Bergen County.
Attendees will learn about factors that students identify as reasons to join a gang. Participants will also become familiar with pressures, problems and concerns that young people are faced with on a daily basis, including reasons why kids start using drugs. In addition, the conference will examine how communities in Bergen County differ from those in Norwalk and Westchester.
For additional information, please contact Shari Horowitz, Coordinator of the Center for Suburban Criminal Justice, at (201) 689-7064 or email shorowitz-engel@bergen.edu
About Bergen Community College
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 15,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
This conference will provide administrators, policymakers, educators, social service agencies, criminal justice leaders, and parents with an opportunity to learn about what young people are experiencing at school. Under a $259,000 federal grant and a PSE&G grant, The Center for Suburban Criminal Justice has conducted seminars with nearly 3,000 high school, middle school, and elementary school students throughout Bergen County, whereby youth participated in electronic clicker surveys as well as face-to- face interviews with Bergen Community College students.
Thursday, June 11 at 9:30 a.m. in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at Bergen Community College, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus.
This conference serves as an excellent opportunity to encourage dialogue between parents, policymakers, and professionals who serve the youth. The goal of the conference is to disseminate new research that has been collected at the seminars with the students. This type of data collection has never been done before in Bergen County.
Attendees will learn about factors that students identify as reasons to join a gang. Participants will also become familiar with pressures, problems and concerns that young people are faced with on a daily basis, including reasons why kids start using drugs. In addition, the conference will examine how communities in Bergen County differ from those in Norwalk and Westchester.
For additional information, please contact Shari Horowitz, Coordinator of the Center for Suburban Criminal Justice, at (201) 689-7064 or email shorowitz-engel@bergen.edu
About Bergen Community College
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 15,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
