UGA’s Franklin College of Arts & Sciences at the UGA Griffin Campus is proud to announce that it will hold its third IDEA Symposium on Friday, April 11th. This year’s timely topic is “Singled Out No Longer: Narratives of Single Parenting.”
Raising a child is an enormous undertaking, even more so when a parent does so without a partner. While some see single-parent families as a problem for the rest of society, they are not. Rather, they face challenges that the general public too often chooses to ignore or minimize. Recognizing that Georgia has the 4th highest percentage of single-parent households among the 50 states and the District of Columbia and that almost half of the families with children in Spalding County are single-parent families, we chose single parenting to be the focus of this year’s IDEA Symposium.
The Symposium will feature presentations on topics such as the challenges and rewards of solo parenting, misconceptions about single-parent families, strategies and resources that solo parents can call upon, and ways in which we can help single parents.
The Symposium, a professional learning conference which will be held 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM in the Student Learning Center on the UGA Griffin Campus, is free and open to the public, but registration is REQUIRED as space is limited. Click on the red box below to register for the Symposium.
If you desire further information about the Symposium, please contact Ms. Faye Chatman with the info below.
Faye F. Chatman
Program Director
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
1109 Experiment Street
Flynt Building 129
Griffin, GA 30223