For Immediate Release
Contact:
Lydell Thomas
Marketing and Communications Manager
1.703.519.2057, lthomas@cswe.org
Atlanta, GA United States, October 25, 2011 – October 25, 2011 – Media Advisory
Former Director of AID Atlanta to Speak to Social Work Educators
Who: Caitlin Ryan, director, Family Acceptance Project San Francisco State University and first director of AID Atlanta, the Southeast’s largest most comprehensive organization AIDS service organization.
What: will deliver the Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecture, “Changing the Future for LGBT Youth and Families: Returning to Our Roots,” on developing a transformational approach to strengthening and empowering ethnically and religiously diverse families to support their LGBT children.
When: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 9:45 am – 11:00 am during the Council on Social Work Education’s 57th Annual Program Meeting.
Where: Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA
Why: To eliminate disparities and address social justice among our nation’s most vulnerable populations, LGBT adolescents, requires a structural social work response across professional training, policy, and practice.
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