Celebrate STEP UP FOR KIDS WEEK with GOSHEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION

At the 4th Annual

A FAMILY AFFAIR…

Connecting the Generational Dots

A Community-Wide Event Celebrating Families & Promoting Healthy Communities

SATURDAY, October 10, 2009, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

At the West Las Vegas Library

947 and 951 West Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas, NV

JOIN US FOR FREE…Food, music, activities for kids, art and craft vendors, information and networking booths for faith based groups, medical providers, law enforcement, social service, local policy makers, and other community partners. Performances by local entertainers.

Press Conference on Improving Child Well Being. Youth Forum.

Local Student Contest (K-12) on Community Improvement

(Directions: go north on I-15. Exit west on Lake Mead Blvd. The library is on Lake Mead between H St. and MLK)

For more information contact Goshen at (702) 880-4357 http://www.everychildmatters.org/Nevada/About/Step-Up-for-Kids-Week.html

Co-Sponsors for this community event include:

Every Child Matters in Nevada & UNLV NICRP, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District,

West Las Vegas Library, West Las Vegas Center for Performing Arts

Every Child Matters in Nevada Community Co-Sponsors: Adam Thomas Health and Safety Foundation, Alchemy Associates, LLC, Amerigroup Community Care, Nevada , Area Health Education Center of Sourtern Nevada, Bilingual Behavioral Sciences, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Boys and Girls Club of Las Vegas, Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Task Force, Inc, Southern Nevada Health District Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Children's Advocacy Alliance, Children's Choice Learning Center, Clark County Children's Mental Health Consortium, Clark County CASA, Clark County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association, Community Partners for Better Health, Culinary Health Fund, Dalton Avenue, Dynamic Impressions, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Project, East Valley Family Services, Family Leadership Initiative, Family and Child Treatment, Family Promise of Las Vegas, Family to Family Connection, Las Vegas South, Family to Family Connection, ISD 13, Foundation for Positively Kids, First United Methodist Church, Reno, Goshen Community Development Coalition, Head Start State Collaboration Office, Health Services Coalition, HELP of Southern Nevada, Henderson Allied Community Advocates (Hopelink), The League of Women Voters of Nevada, Math Monkey of Henderson, Mojave Adult, Child and Family Services, NASW Nevada, Nevada Association for the Education of Young Children (AEYC), Southern Nevada AEYC, Nevada Child Seekers, Nevada Covering Kids and Families, Nevada Health Care Policy Group, LLC, Nevada Partnership for Homless Youth, Nevada Pep, Nevada Public Education Foundation, Nevada Women's Lobby, Northern Nevada RAVE Family Foundation, Office of Minority Health, Olive Crest, Organized Karma, LLC, The Princess Lee Foundation for Child Abuse and Neglect, Principium, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, PSEC Nevada, Senator Harry Reid, Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth, SAFE NEST, Sign Design Theatre Company, Sunrise Children's Foundation, UNLV Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach, The Rape Crisis Center, Unity Village, University Association of Social Work Students, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, UNLV Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion

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