April 21-23, 2004. Effective Communities. The next regional training forum will be held in Orlando , Florida. The forum will identify ways to better position Communities of Promise as leading change agents for children, share success stories form Communities of Promise across the country and offer strategies for taking advantage of the tools and resources offered by America 's Promise. To register, please visit www.americaspromise.org/community/regforum.cfm .

April 28-May 1, 2004. "Your City's Families'" Conference.  The Coalition for Community Schools is collaborating with the National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families to hold this conference in Portland, Oregon. Visit http://www.communityschools.org/newsletterv.3.9.html for more information.

May 4, 2004. "Many Voices, Common Purpose" Conference. The purpose of the conference is to support the youth work profession by discussing results-based curricula, research, evaluation results, and assessment tools to give youth workers and educators the power to draw resources to their work.  Email lindah@highscope.org or visit
http://www.highscope.org/EducationalPrograms/Adolescent/homepage.htm

May 13, 2004. Protecting our Children and Youth: Innovative Sexual Violence Prevention.  Featuring national speaker Gordon Braxton in Leesburg, Virginia.  For more information, contact tammi.slovinsky@icsj.org.

May 17-18, 2004. Handling Difficult Emotions.  This YouthBuild Academy for Transformation workshop, offers proven techniques which can assist not only yourself, but help the youth in our lives better handle stress, low self-esteem, and negative influences.  For more information: http://www.youthbuild.org/academy/emotions.html

May 21 & 22, June 4 & 5, and June 18 & 19, 2004. High/Scope Youth Worker Certification (YWC) in Southeastern Michigan. The YWC is a 36-hour course that prepares youth professionals to deliver high-quality programs that support positive youth development. To learn more, please visit http://www.highscope.org/EducationalPrograms/Adolescent/profdevelopment.htm or email lindah@highscope.org.

June 6-8, 2004.  Community Volunteering and National Serivce Conference.  This conference is convened by the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network and the Corporation for National and Community Service in Kansas City, MO.

June 11-13, 2004. Building Connected Communities: The Power of People and Technology.  The Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) is hosting a series of Pre-Conference workshops on June 10, 2004 to kick off their Annual Conference.  Pre-Conference workshops are offered to registered conference attendees free of charge, but space is limited and all Pre-Conference workshops along with registration information are at http://www.ctcnet.org/conf/2004/at_conference/pre-conference.htm

November 4-6, 2004.  National Middle School Conference.  The "Take Your Job and Love It" conference will be held in San Francisco and is convened by California School-Age Consortium. More information will be available on their website, www.calsac.org.

February 16-19, 2004.  Beyond School Hours VIII.  This year's national conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia.  For more information email jkearn@foundationsinc.org.