What Works Conference – Breaking the Cycle
Time
8:30 am –
10:00 am
Break
10:00 am 11:00 am
11:00 am 12:00 pm
12:00 pm 1:30 pm
1:30 pm –
3:30 pm
AB
C
D
Opening Keynote: High Poverty Schools
Dr. Kathleen Budge, author; Gatha Green, Director Family Resource Center
ALICE: What it Means and
Why it Matters
Janet Durden, United Way of
School Leaders NELA
Seminar
Dr. Budge
Safety in our Neighborhood
Corp. Kris Fulmer, Gang Task
Force, Monroe PD
Impacts of Poverty on Nutrition: Jean
Toth, NELA Food Bank and
Cathy Agan, LSU AG
Family Literacy
Shantrell Austin, Primetime
Lunch Keynote: High Performing Schools
Dr. Kathleen Budge, author; Joyce Landrum, Early Literacy Coordinator
ACE Summit: Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana
Sheri Hogg
Poverty Protective Factors: Admiring Adults
John Newman, New Hope Center
Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana
What Works Conference: BREAKING THE CYCLE
December 9, 2016 8AM – 4PM
University of Louisiana at Monroe, Student Union Building
ALL CHILDREN have a right to QUALITY CARE and EDUCATION, but poverty imposes social, cognitive,
health-related, and stress-related challenges on students every day, and all these factors affect
students’ ability to learn. This year, the What Works Conference brings together a national author
with local experts to help us BREAK THE CYCLE of intergenerational poverty in northeast LOUISIANA.
CEUS applied for:
 6 CEU contact hours for Licensed Professional Counselors
 6 CEU contact hours for Social Work
 6 CEU contact hours for Educators
Morning and Lunch Keynote (3 hours)
Turning High Poverty Schools into High Performing Schools
Dr. Kathleen Budge, PhD
Dr. Budge is the co-author of the award-winning book Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-
Performing Schools. She speaks nationally for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD) on how schools can work with community partners to break the cycle of
intergenerational poverty.
Closing Keynote:
ACEs to ACTION: Taking the next step (2 hours)
Sheri Hogg, Prevent Child Abuse
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have long-term health impacts on children and adults. This
presentation provides an overview of what we can do to offset ACEs and take action to break the
cycle that leads to them.
Poverty Protective Factors: Admiring Adults
John Newman, New Hope Center
A discussion of best practice in providing protective factors to off set ACE’s—admiring adults.
Concurrent Sessions
Youth Track
Early Childhood Track
ALICE: What it Means and Why it Matters
(1 hour)
Janet Durden, Executive Director United
Way of NELA
ALICE, a United Way acronym which
stands for Asset Limited, Income
Constrained, Employed, represents the
growing number of individuals and families
who are working, but are unable to afford
the basic necessities of housing, food, child
care, health care, and transportation. This
presentation explains how ALICE workers
are essential to the fabric of our society
and what we can do to support them.
Impacts of Poverty on Nutrition (1 hour)
Jean Toth, NELA Food Bank and Cathy
Agan, LSU AG
Poverty, food insecurity, and poor
nutrition and health are among the most
pernicious problems eroding quality of life
and limiting economic productivity. The
presentation examines how we can
provide nutrition support to children born
into poverty.
Safety in our Neighborhood: Gang Task
Force (1 hour)
Corp. Kris Fulmer, Monroe PD
Gang activity has entered our elementary
schools in local parishes. Sgt. Fulmer
explains how to recognize and help
students at risk for gang activity, what are
the signs and symbols of our local gangs,
and what are the resources in our
community.
Family Literacy to break the cycle( 1 hour)
Shantrell Austin, Primetime
The presentation shares strategies that
encourage meaningful at-home reading
behavior between parents/caregivers and
their young children. PRIME TIME
Preschool introduces young children and
their families to the humanities and to
literature through age-appropriate
storytelling and literary exploration via
center-based play.