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Recent Speeches by Peter
Goldberg
Read Peter Golberg's bio
here.
Alliance National Conference, Oct.
17, 2007, Anaheim, CA
[.PDF]
During the Alliance’s premier event, Goldberg updated the audience
on important events at the Alliance: the hiring of Elizabeth Carey;
grants programs such as the New Age of Aging, Building Community
Voices, and New Voices at the Civic Table; and plans for celebrating
the Alliance’s centennial. Goldberg said, “And while it is important
to celebrate our successes and yours, it is clear to me at least,
that our upside potential as a national organization and as a
community of agencies to further create, further inspire, and
further lead for positive social change is together — and that is
incredibly motivating.”
Adelphi University Event, Oct. 23, 2007, New York City (Speech
and
Presentation) [.PDF]
At this special event held to pay tribute to social work and social
work advocacy, Goldberg reviews the eight barricades to effective
values based advocacy and civic engagement, as well as seven
examples of effective advocacy. Goldberg commented, “So, considering
that our society can overcome one injustice after another, can we
ever doubt what can happen with the strong commitment of millions of
people like us to storming the barricades of indifference?”
American Association of Children’s Residential Centers, Oct. 25,
2007, Orlando, FL [.PDF]
Speaking to another national gathering of an important membership
association, Goldberg pays tribute to the bond between the Alliance
and AACRC, while also showing the importance of residential
services. “It has never gone unrecognized by the Alliance and its
members that AACRC took somewhat of a risk to situate yourselves in
such a way where your operations are housed in a larger
organization, the Alliance, and where you have contracted the
day-to-day operations to this larger organization.” Goldberg noted.
“All among us today recognize the obvious fact that
residential-based care is a powerful treatment with a great capacity
to change lives. You can be assured that the Alliance honors and
values the role of residential care as a necessary component in a
comprehensive system of behavioral health care, including the full
continuum of programs and services for children and their families.
I believe these services become more essential to communities every
day.”
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Family Support Symposium, Nov. 5,
2007, Atlanta [.PDF]
Goldberg commended the Boys & Girls Clubs for embracing concepts
of family support and family strengthening, using the Alliance’s
National Family Week program as an example of a program that has
successfully implemented similar concepts. “National Family Week has
become a catalyst for serious discussion and a forum for strong
civic engagement and advocacy. National Family Week has
successfully promoted the message that strong families are at the
center of strong communities and everyone has a role to play in
making families successful,” Goldberg said.
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