The first annual Region One Community Builders Network of Virginia conference will be Friday, June 8th from noon to 8pm at the Monticello Event and Conference Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. The focus of the conference will be on jobs and job training for teenagers and the theme will be “Putting it all together for our youth 2006-2007.” The price of admission is one job for a teenager or one teenager for a job.
There will be a panel at noon with five speakers who will each speak for fifteen
minutes, and then sit to entertain questions from the public. The speakers will be Freddie Simons, Director Community Builders Network of Virginia: My Dream for the Community Builders Network of Virginia; Harold Folley, Organizer, Virginia Organizing Project: Living in Public Housing in Charlottesville; Maxine Holland, Founder, Men on a Mission; Chris Winstead-Derlega, Educator, Aids Services Group: Aids Prevention; and Rory Carpenter, Juvenile Justice Coordinator, Charlottesville/Albemarle Commission on Children and Families: Youth Development Network. A free buffet lunch included with the price of admission will be served by youth from the DASH Program.
The evening will consist of some gospel music by the local group called “God’s Anointed” as well as the State Farm Gospel Choir, a dinner meal at 5:00 pm, and a keynote speech from Commissioner Pamela O’Berry Evans from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board at 5:30 pm. Other featured guests will be officers from the Community Builders Network of Virginia statewide, local businesses and community leaders. The public is cordially invited to attend especially youth who are interested in jobs and job training in the food service industry.
A SPECIAL TEEN: Perrie Anderson, age 15, is an honor roll student at Buford Middle School. Perrie serves as the only youth representative in District One of the Community Builders Network of Virginia, which covers most of north and central Virginia. She recently participated in the Network’s conference in January, in Richmond, and the statewide “Prevention Comes First/Kidsafe Conference” sponsored by the governor’s office of Substance Abuse Prevention. Her work with the network has given her an opportunity to help others by being a mentor for other teens. She recently won the Annual CH Brown Centennial Award for community service.
