REQUEST FOR PRESENTATIONS

*submission deadline extended to April 10, 2008*

The Ophelia Project has just celebrated ten years of helping schools and communities create safe social climates by addressing relational, verbal and covert aggression, including cyberbullying. The Bullying Crisis: Exploring Dimensions of Relational Aggression, the Ophelia's 2008 national conference will bring together professionals from a variety of domains to share expertise, programming and research. The conference will highlight the role of cognitive and social/emotional problem-solving that help prevent and address all forms of non-physical peer aggression.

We invite you to join us in this exciting exchange.

The Ophelia Project has defined three focus areas for the conference and is seeking workshops that incorporate these themes as they relate to relational and social aggression. Focus areas include:

Acceptance: Others see me for who I am, value me and include me.

Workshop focus: Diversity, learning differences, inclusion, accountability and creating safe social climates within schools and community organizations.

Belonging: I have friends, a peer group and supportive relationships at home, within my school and community.

Workshop focus: Role of peer groups; creating and maintaining healthy relationships; developing social skills and problem solving, assets and protective factors; programs that help children and youth develop these skills.

Control: My actions affect others and my environment.

Workshop Focus: Programs/activities that help children and youth develop competence, self-efficacy, leadership, positive self-image, self-regulation, cognitive problem solving; and policies/procedures that help adults identify and address relational aggression.

Target Audiences include:

• Educators and Administrators (elementary, middle and high school and college)
• Community organizations serving children and youth
• School and community teachers, nurses counselors and athletic coaches
• Special education teachers, administrators and related service providers.
• Medical doctors and therapists who work with children, youth and their families
• Juvenile justice staff: counselors, teachers and administrators
• Parents

PRESENTER PROPOSAL

Request for Presentation forms may be submitted by e-mail or by mail. Please read the instructions carefully and make sure you include all the necessary information.

*Please note: In order to submit a filled out form by e-mail, user must have Adobe Professional software, that allows you to save the completed form on your computer's desktop. If you do not have this software, please fill out form completely, print and mail it to address listed below. Adobe Reader will not allow you to save a filled out form. *

E-mail: Click on link above and save file to your desktop. Please fill out form in its entirety and attach in an e-mail to Christine Linkie at clinkie@opheliaproject.org.

Mail: Click on link above, flill out form and print application. After completing it in full, mail your submission to:

Christine Linkie
The Ophelia Project
718 Nevada Drive
Erie, PA 16505
phone: 888-256-5437
fax: 814-455-2090

Deadline for Request for Presentation submission is April 10, 2008.

You will be contacted after April 10, 2008 once all proposals have been reviewed. All workshop presenters are required to register for the conference and take care of travel and hotel accomodations; please refer to The Ophelia Project Web site for details.

Click here for information regarding hotel reservations.