ASP NJ director Gloria Strickland (far right) with (l. to r.) Mariana Rivera, Jovanna Rodriguez and Elizabeth Wolghiren.

In addition to her day-to-day work with the young people of New Jersey, director Gloria Strickland finds time to share her expertise, experience and success with other youth development and education professionals. At the end of April of this year, Strickland represented the All Stars at a conference sponsored SJA (Stedlijk Jongerenwerk Amsterdam), which works with urban youth in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. SJA invited youth-workers throughout The Netherlands to come and learn about the All Stars program models and approach to youth development, which SJA itself began implementing in 2002.

In 2003 Strickland represented the All Stars Project at the Third Annual Meeting of the Black Alliance for Educational Options in Dallas and was a presenter at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, on a panel entitled “The Impact of Participatory Youth Programs” that was chaired by Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education.
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