3rd Annual Flint Resiliency & Environmental Justice Summit

2019 Resiliency Week Events

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Wednesday, March 27th

2:00 – 3:30pm

• Healthy Schools Discussion (Register Here)
• Speakers: Derrick Lopez, Superintendent, Flint Community Schools
• Nancy Love, PhD, Professor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Michelle Fecteau, Secretary, Michigan State Board of Education
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Community Room

4:30 – 7:30pm

• On the Road to Community Recovery: Community One-on-One (Register Here)
• Speakers: Jameca Patrick-Singleton, MSW, COF Chief Recovery Officer
  Linnette Philips, Deputy Director, COF Economic Development
• Vicki Johnson- Lawrence, MS, PhD, Flint ReCAST Project Director, College of Human Medicine Division of Public Health in Flint Michigan State University Director
• Pamela Pugh, DrPH, MS, Flint ReCAST Co-Project Director, COF Chief Public Health Officer
• Candice Mushatt – Communications/ Public Information
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Gymnasium

6:00 – 8:00pm

• Movie Showing: Inside Out  (Register Here)
• Location:Flint Southwestern Academy

Thursday, March 28th

12:15 – 12:50pm

• Lunch Session: Creating Sustainable, Just and Inclusive Local Communities and Economies
• Keynote Presenter: Ronda Chapman, Senior Associate, PolicyLink

1:00 – 2:20pm

• Advancing Just Utilities (Register Here)
  Presenters: Anna Wolf, Project Manager, Water & Transportation Center for Neighborhood Technology
• Amy Hovey, Special Projects Coordinator, C. S. Mott Foundation
• Leah Wiste, Executive Director, Michigan Interfaith Power & Light
• Hughey Newsome, COF Chief Financial Officer
• Robert Bincsik, Director, COF Department of Public Works
  Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Gymnasium

2:30 – 3:20pm

• Sustainable Development: Building Blue-Green and Ensuring an Equity Stake for All (Register Here)
• Presenters: Ann Baughman, Associate Director, Fresh Water Future
• Richard Gragg, Florida A & M University School of Environment, National Technical Association
• Robert Bincsik, Director, COF Department of Public Works
• Suzanne Wilcox, Director, COF Department of Planning & Development
• Makini Jackson, Director, COF Department of Human Resources & Labor Relations
• Ruben Martinez, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Gymnasium

4:30 – 7:30pm

• Visioning Flint’s Clean Energy Future Interactive Workshop (Register Here)
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Community Room

4:30 – 5:30pm

• Interactive Artistic Performances & Resource Fair (Dinner Served at 5:30 pm) (Register Here)
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Community Room

6:00 – 7:30pm

• Fireside Chat
• Location: Flint Southwestern Academy, Community Room

5:00 – 8:00pm

• Movie Showing:Moonlight (Register Here)
• Location:Flint Public Library

Friday, March 29th

10:30 – 11:20am

• Clean and Toxic Free Neighborhoods (Register Here)
• Presenters: James Henry, Environmental Health Director, Genesee County Health Department
• Grant Trigger-Manager, Racer Trust Clean Up, Michigan
• Tom Hutchings- Supervisor, COF Environmental Compliance Unit
• Kevin Lund, PE, CPG, – Senior Licensed Engineer, MI Department of Environmental Quality
• Location:Flint Southwestern Academy

11:30 – 12:20pm

• Healthy and Affordable Living Spaces (Register Here)
• Location:Flint Southwestern Academy

12:30 – 2:00pm

• Plenary Session: Building Healthy and Resilient Communities (Register Here)
• Elaine Karas-Miller, MSW, LCSW, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Trauma Resource Institute
• Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, MPH, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program
• Location:Flint Southwestern Academy

2:00 – 5:00pm

• Combining Resiliency and Environmental Justice (Register Here)
• Location:Flint Southwestern Academy

2:00 – 2:50pm

• Restorative Justice and Community Resiliency
  

3:00 – 3:50pm

• Restorative Cities
  

4:00 – 5:00pm

• Future of the Flint ReCAST
  

7:00 – 10:00pm

• Flint’s Youth Got Talent (Hosted by Ira Dorsey & Mayor Karen Weaver)
• Location: McCree Theatre

Saturday, March 30th

9:00 – 11:00am

• Training: The Community Resiliency Model (Register Here)
• Location: MSU College of Human Medicine-Flint

11:00 – 12:00pm

• César Chávez Remembrance Day (Click Here for More Information) (Register Here)
• Location: MSU College of Human Medicine-Flint

1:00 to 2:30pm

• Workshop: Healthy Bodies Starts With Healthy Minds (Register Here)
• Location: MSU College of Human Medicine-Flint