The Conflict Center Newsletter

Summer 2008

In This Newsletter: Why get connected? Parenting Challenges and New Technology 2008 Garden Tour Calendar of Events Here Comes the New World Online Learning the New Frontiers of Education Cyber-Bullying a new trend in violence Your Donation matched

Why Get Connected? The World Wide Web...

The connected age can feel overwhelming for many of us. Often it feels like learning to speak a whole new language. Must I really google and blog? What is the latest gadget? Do I really need to carry a computer in my palm at all times? How will I keep up with all this information? Do I really need to know all this to live my day to day life?

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Parenting Challenges and New Technology

By: Vickie Samland

One of the newest challenges of parenting comes from all the new technological advances—cell phones, internet, chat rooms, instant messaging, texting, internet video (like YouTube), and broad access to information. These are all technologies that can advance our society and can be improvements in communication. These new technologies continue to change, evolve, and improve. And the ways to use them in abusive and harmful ways also continues to evolve.

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Garden Tour 2008 By : Maggie Helseth The Since 2001, over a thousand Denver residents, mostly from Northwest Denver, but many from other areas, have enjoyed this impressive event. Tour goers will find "master gardens" that have been years, even decades, in the making, as well as more attainable, early stage gardens. This year's event will take place on Saturday, June 14th, beginning at 9am. Tickets are $15 each and may be purchased in advance by calling The Conflict Center at 303-433-4983. Tickets will also be available on the day of the event at The Conflict Center, located at 4140 Tejon. (See Save The Date)	Calendar of Events Please see our upcoming events on the following link. (More Information...) Matching Donations from the Gay and Lesbian Fund of Colorado. Fear, judgments and stereotypes open the door to all forms of violence. The Conflict Center has received a Challenge Grant from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado to support agency-wide cultural competency training to ensure that The Conflict Center’s services effectively meet the needs of diverse communities. With a goal of raising $5,000 your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado (More Information)

Conversations with your kids. By: Virginia Vobejda Everyone with children can recall the fun and joy of the early babble, the first words sometimes their confidences regarding their worries or problems. These are precious. It is important that parents keep the lines open. There are ways to encourage these important exchanges even in our fast paced, plugged in culture. (Read More )	Here Comes The New World By : Ara Ogle What would you do if a stranger came up to you on the street and asked for your phone number or other personal information? Hopefully, you would be extremely cautious and unwilling to divulge such information. This same caution should carry over to other avenues of communication. With all the hype about the “new world of technology” we often lose sight of the basic rules of good communication and using courtesy and caution as we make our way in the world. (Read More)

Online Learning the New Frontiers of Education Online classes, which were a novelty just a decade ago, have moved into the educational mainstream. Today it is common for traditional on-campus students to incorporate one or more online courses into their schedules. Online classes also have a home outside educational institutions. The Conflict Center is researching the future of online learning with the hopes of introducing online Anger and Conflict Management classes. (Read More)	Cyber-Bullying a New Trend in Violence Bullying for years has been stereotyped to show the scene of a larger boned, bigger kid picking on the smaller almost wimpy kid at school by pushing him into a locker. While this stereotype of physical bullying does exist, bullying has become much more subtle and almost invisible to track. Verbal and emotional violence is more pervasive and can be more detrimental to youth in our society and our schools. (Read More)

Garden Tour 2008

By : Maggie Helseth

The Since 2001, over a thousand Denver residents, mostly from Northwest Denver, but many from other areas, have enjoyed this impressive event. Tour goers will find "master gardens" that have been years, even decades, in the making, as well as more attainable, early stage gardens.

This year's event will take place on Saturday, June 14th, beginning at 9am. Tickets are $15 each and may be purchased in advance by calling The Conflict Center at 303-433-4983. Tickets will also be available on the day of the event at The Conflict Center, located at 4140 Tejon.

(See Save The Date)

Calendar of Events

Please see our upcoming events on the following link.

(More Information...)

Matching Donations from the Gay and Lesbian Fund of Colorado.

Fear, judgments and stereotypes open the door to all forms of violence. The Conflict Center has received a Challenge Grant from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado to support agency-wide cultural competency training to ensure that The Conflict Center’s services effectively meet the needs of diverse communities. With a goal of raising $5,000 your donation will be matched dollar for dollar by the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado

(More Information)

Conversations with your kids.

By: Virginia Vobejda

Everyone with children can recall the fun and joy of the early babble, the first words sometimes their confidences regarding their worries or problems. These are precious. It is important that parents keep the lines open. There are ways to encourage these important exchanges even in our fast paced, plugged in culture.

(Read More )

Here Comes The New World

By : Ara Ogle

What would you do if a stranger came up to you on the street and asked for your phone number or other personal information? Hopefully, you would be extremely cautious and unwilling to divulge such information. This same caution should carry over to other avenues of communication.

With all the hype about the “new world of technology” we often lose sight of the basic rules of good communication and using courtesy and caution as we make our way in the world.

(Read More)

Online Learning the New Frontiers of Education

Online classes, which were a novelty just a decade ago, have moved into the educational mainstream. Today it is common for traditional on-campus students to incorporate one or more online courses into their schedules.

Online classes also have a home outside educational institutions. The Conflict Center is researching the future of online learning with the hopes of introducing online Anger and Conflict Management classes.

(Read More)

Cyber-Bullying a New Trend in Violence

Bullying for years has been stereotyped to show the scene of a larger boned, bigger kid picking on the smaller almost wimpy kid at school by pushing him into a locker. While this stereotype of physical bullying does exist, bullying has become much more subtle and almost invisible to track. Verbal and emotional violence is more pervasive and can be more detrimental to youth in our society and our schools.

(Read More)