New Grantee Teleconference Series

The New Grantee Teleconference Series that began in December 2005 has been a great success!  Thank you to the Network members who have participated in the calls.

Future call topics include "Involving Consumers and Families," and "Cultural Competence." Look for emails announcing the dates and times of these calls. For more information, please contact Debbie Ling at dling@mednet.ucla.edu.

ISTSS Call for Presentations

ISTSS has released its Call for Presentations for its 22nd annual meeting, which will be held on November 4-7 in Hollywood, CA. This year's conference will focus on the psychobiology of trauma and resilience across the lifespan. 

Submission Deadlines:
Oral Proposals: March 15, 2006
Poster Proposals: March 31, 2006

For more information, please visit http://www.istss.org/meetings/index.htm.

New Culture and Trauma Briefs

The NCTSN Culture Consortium is launching a series of briefs which aim to inform the Network and beyond about important issues related to culture, diversity and cultural competence.

To kickoff this new series, Al Killen-Harvey and Heidi Stern-Ellis at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families in San Diego contributed to the brief on Trauma Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning Youth.

The series, as well as other activities of the Culture Consortium, will be described in more detail on an open conference call on March 3rd at 9 am Pacific / 12 noon Eastern. For more information about the Culture Consortium, or instructions on how to join this conference call, please contact Susan Ko at sko@mednet.ucla.edu

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