SPARC SERIES…
Sparking the community
with information and
connections
SPARC (Schools, Parents And Resources Connect), is a series of informational sessions that
will bring parents, educators and community members together to learn about important
topics that build resiliency and developmental assets in our children.
Parents
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School Staff
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Youth Workers
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Community Members
* Certificate of attendance will be available.
“The Nurtured Heart”
Monday, April 13, 2015 7:00—8:30 p.m.
Presenter: Marc Markell, PhD at St. Cloud State University
The Nurtured Heart Approach is to help build inner wealth in children by giving them
abundant evidence that they are valuable, good, competent and able to deal with and
succeed in life. The Nurtured Heart Approach is about adults collapsing negative energy and giving children the positive energy they need. The approach is about creating
experiences for children that bring out their positive selves.
Professor Marc Markell, professor in special education, along with his sister and co-author Kathryn Markell,
had their book about working with young people dealing with grief published by Routledge. "The Children
Who Lived: Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents"
uses the experiences of Harry Potter and other fictional characters to help educators, counselors and parents
work with children and adolescents dealing with loss. Markell, who joined St. Cloud State in 1991, earlier
authored "Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn: Practical Rituals for Caregivers," as well
as articles in the field of special education. Copies are available at Amazon.com, Borders and Barnes & Noble.
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Location:
House of Hope Lutheran Church
4800 Boone Avenue North, New Hope, MN 55428
Please RSVP to Melodie at 763-504-4981 with name and number attending.
Free childcare available — please reserve your spot when you register with ages of children.
Questions? - Contact Melodie Hanson at 763-504-4981.
The 2014-2015 SPARC series is sponsored by: Robbinsdale Area Redesign, Robbinsdale Area Schools:
Community Education and Early Childhood Family Education, Partnership for Change, PrairieCare and
Bonfire Ministry.