VIP Civic Academy on Offender Rehabilitation

October 10, 2017, 6:30pm - October 10, 2017, 10:00pm

The Church and Society Ministry Team hosts VIP – Valley Interfaith Project – for a second Civic Academy on criminal justice this year. Join us on Tuesday, October 10, 6:30-8 pm in Room H7 on the Paradise Valley United Methodist Church campus as Jesenia Pizarro, associate professor at ASU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, presents Offender Rehabilitiation: What We Know. Professor Pizarro was one of the presenters at a Civic Academy held in May on Evidence-Based Criminal Justice: An Educational Review. She and her colleague and husband, ASU Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Bill Terrill, strived to answer these questions: • What do we know in terms of causes of crime? • What works in criminal justice policy? • What are effective prevention practices? • Are there best practices in policing? This time, Professor Pizarro will focus on the question: What are proven models in offender rehabilitation? Read more about the event. Criminal justice reform has been a part of VIP’s Human Development Agenda.Valley Interfaith Project (VIP) is a broad based, non-partisan organization of dues-paying member congregations, schools, unions and non-profits committed to building relational power through organizing people for sustainable social and economic improvement. Read more about VIP. Jesenia M. Pizarro is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Professor Pizarro has worked with various police departments throughout the country in joints efforts to curb the violence in the municipalities they service. She has published multiple articles, most focusing on violence and homicide, and has served as Co-Principal Investigator in federally funded projects. As a member of PVUMC, she was instrumental in crunching the data from our Better Together Sunday in July, 2017, which asked the question: “What keeps you up at night?” Free, certified onsite childcare is available during the event with a 48-hour reservation. To reserve a spot for your child(ren), please call the church at 602-840-8360, ext 134 at least 48 hours before the event. If you need to cancel childcare, even at the last minute, please call the number again. Find out more about Paradise Valley United Methodist Church at pvumc.org.

The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

September 21, 2017, 6:30pm - September 21, 2017, 11:30pm

Navigating Common Ground is a series of four videos and discussions scheduled for Thursday nights at 6:30 pm in Room H1 on September 7, 14, 21 and 28. Based primarily on TED Talks from diverse speakers, attendees will be invited to talk about the conflicts that confront us, and how we can move toward reconciliation. On September 21, watch Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tell the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice in a well-known TED Talk. If we hear only a single story about another person or country, she says, we risk a critical misunderstanding.