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History:2004-2010

• Developed seven course curriculum modules for United States high schools and updated.

• Developed nine resources papers and updated.

• Developing two new monographs: street children, and refugee children, each with supporting education modules.

• Developing continuing education courses for DC Public School Teachers, with support of the District.

• Participated in the CWLA/Deepalaya NGO Professional Exchange to India through the U.S. State Department.

• Recruited, selected, and trained six youth leaders from the U.S. to attend the Children's World Congress (Italy).

• Provided training at the World Conference on Mental Health and InterCAMHS World Conference in New  

  Zealand.

• Provided training on child labor and its effects to American Psychological Association and Congressional  

  Fellows.

• Provided introductory training on child soldiers to the National Forum on Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

• Provided introductory workshop on human exploitation to the youth leaders of the Religious Action Center .

• Served as a panelist on the State of the World's Exploited Children to the National Young Leaders Conference.

• Served as a consultant on three documentary films: Violence of Light; Poetry in Wartime; and one yet unnamed.

• Provided advice and contacts to the Oprah Winfrey show for a program entitled: Atrocities against Children.

• Hosted Indian and Ukrainian Professional Exchange delegates through the U.S. State Department to discuss child issues.

• Hosted Turkmenistan Youth Exchange Delegates through the U.S. State Department; served as lead speaker.

• Published several articles at Family News and Focus, Caribbean Voice, Washington Post, Education Update, etc.

• Served on the North American Regional Consultation to the United Nations Study on Violence against Children.

• Assisted with Global Action Day: the largest lobby event ever on behalf of children's rights (107 countries).

• Consulted the new Acting Director of the International Child Labor Program at the U.S. Department of Labor.

• Consulted with Congressional offices and government agencies on child labor, Cocoa Protocol, and Tariff Acts.

 • Attended the World Bank Commission meeting on International Child Labor with ICCLE and the Global 

   March.

• Served as the Chair of the Youth Participation on the CRC Committee, and as a Steering Committee member.

 • Developed a website to educate youth and the public about national/international child issues and to facilitate access to resources, listed as Website of the Week in Parade and the School District Administrators Magazine.

• Accepted to the NGO Committee on UNICEF which provides us with a voice and consultative status at

  UNICEF.

• Provided summer programs to more than 90 DC children with Reaching Out's Summer Enrichment Program.

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