The State of the Child Conference 2006
Hotel Preston, 733 Briley Parkway , Nashville
16-18 October 2006

The theme of this year’s State of the Child conference is “Getting to the Root: Understanding & Changing Challenging Behaviors in Children and Youth”.

Headlining this year’s conference is Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of the Collaborative Problem Solving Institute in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital .  He is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Explosive Child and co-author of Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach.  Dr. Greene specializes in the treatment of explosive children and adolescents at home and school and in inpatient, residential and juvenile detention facilities. 

The conference will also feature track workshops on the autism spectrum, mental health and the juvenile justice system, positive behavioral supports, and substance use disorders among others.

The final day of the conference has been set aside as the Post Conference Academy , in which parents and children’s advocates have the option of participating in a leadership seminar. Full registration is required to take advantage of this segement of the conference program.

The State of the Child Conference 2006 is Sponsored by Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC) and is receiving partial support from the Governor’s Office of Children’s Care Coordination.

To register or obtain more information, contact Andrea Flowers Buivid at (615) 269-7751 or (800) 670-9882, or via e-mail at aflowers@tnvoices.org. Online registration will soon be available at the TVC website (www.tnvoices.org).