Agenda

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am –  10:00 am

Morning Workshop – How to Get Started
Stewart Wakeling, Executive Director, California Safe Communities Partnerships

10:00 am - 10:15 am

break

10:15 am – 11:15 am

Keynote Address
Mary Lou Leary, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

The Faith Based Model
Rev. Jeffrey Brown, RECAP and Executive Director, Boston TenPoint
Coalition

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

Chiefs of Police Panel
Edward F. Davis, Boston Police Commissioner
Garry McCarthy, Chicago Police Superintendent
Frederick H. Bealefeld, Police Commissioner, City of Baltimore

2:00 pm- 2:45 pm

Community and Faith Panel
Teny Gross, Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence
Pastor Leslie Simmons, South Sacramento Christian Center, Sacramento, CA
Pastor Eddie Caraveo, Victory Outreach, South Sacramento, CA

2:45 pm - 3:15pm

break

3:15pm - 4:00 pm

Case Study
Peter B. Zimmerman, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Program
Development, Harvard University

4:00 pm  – 4:45 pm

Facilitated Discussion
Christine Cole, Executive Director, Program in Criminal Justice and Policy
Management, Harvard University

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast
Lisa Sharon Harper, Director of Mobilizing, Sojourners – Host / Reflection

9:00 am - 9:45 am

Keynote Address
David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control
John Jay College, NYC and author of “Don’t Shoot”

9:45 am - 10:15 am

break

10:15 am - 11:00 am

Study Findings
Anthony A. Braga is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Rod K. Brunson, School of Criminal Justice; Rutgers University

11:00 am - 11:45 am

Where to find the Money
Rev. Michael McBride, Pastor, The Way Christian Center, Berkeley, CA, National Director, Lifelines to Healing Campaign, National PICO Network
Thomas Abt, Chief of Staff to the Office of Justice Programs, DOJ
Rodney Bullard, Executive Director, S. Truett Cathy Foundation
Rev. Dr. Wilson Goode, Public/Private Ventures (PPV)Senior Advisor for Faith-Based Initiatives (Invited)

11:45 am – 12:30pm

Government Policy Issues Panel
Theron Pride, Senior Advisor, Office of Justice Programs, DOJ and National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention
Eugene Schneeberg, Dir. of Faith Based and Neighborhood Initiatives, DOJ

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch
Lunch speaker: Bill Bratton

1:30pm - 2:15 pm

Faith-Based Institutions and the Reduction of Gang Violence: Academic Perspectives
Presenter: Byron Johnson, Director of Institute for Studies of Religion, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences
Responder: Christopher Winship, Professor of Sociology of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

Re-Entry and Mentoring Panel
Mr. Christopher Watler, Project Director, Harlem Community Justice Center, Harlem, NY
Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear, Director, Healing Communities Prison Ministry andPrisoner Re-Entry Project, Philadelphia Leadership Foundation

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm

break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Closing Keynote
Speaker TBA