Free Brown Bag Lunch Series: Effective Approaches for Positive Adolescent Behavior: Alternatives to Grouping ‘At-Risk Youth’

Speaker: Lorenn Walker

“Research confirms that most parents know: exposing a child with problem behaviors to others bad behaviors increases the likelihood of more bad behavior,” says Walker. “Despite the research on negative peer influence and labelling, problems grouping ‘at-risk youth’ are common.”

In this talk, learn how to apply restorative justice, solution-focused, cooperative, and peer-education approaches with youth.

Lorenn Walker, JD, MPH, develops, implements, researches, and reports on cooperative learning interventions using public health approaches including restorative justice and solution-focused applications.  She collaborates with schools, prisons, courts, law enforcement, NGOs, and individuals to address injustice.  A Senior Fulbright Specialist, Walker directs Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice and is a professor at the University of Hawai‘i Public Policy Center.

Ku‘ikahi’s Brown Bag Lunch Series is free and open to the public.  Attendees are encouraged to enjoy an informal and educational talk-story session and connect with others interested in “Finding Solutions, Growing Peace.”

For more information, contact Ku‘ikahi Program Coordinator Majidah Lebarre at 935-7844 x 3 or majidah@hawaiimediation.org.  Or visit www.hawaiimediation.org.

Part of their “Finding Solutions, Growing Peace” Brown Bag Lunch Series.

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