2019 GRIP Immigration Summit Monday, April 15, 2019 8:30 am – 2:00 pm

Registration opens at 8:00 Francis Hall, Alvernia University

Parking areas with shuttle service provided! Lunch is included.

Cost: $25 Students FREE but must pre-register!

Registration Deadline is April 5th

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Online Registration is also available at www.readingGRIP.org

GRIP’s Annual Immigration Summit is an opportunity to learn more about the issues facing

many families in our local community. This year’s program will include:

Panel discussions on - Immigration Legislation; Healthcare Challenges; Workforce Development

Short documentary- World renowned artist Michelle Angela Ortiz is screening a short documentary

as part of "Familias Separadas" a project developed from interviews with families detained at the

Berks Family Residential Center; panel discussion with local advocates to follow

Discussion Groups focused around:

o Workforce Development – untapped resources; changing demographics; fair labor laws

o Healthcare Challenges – what care is available; where are the gaps; public charge concerns

o Waking Dreams – video resource and tool for classroom or discussion groups

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Registration/Payment Options: Adults- $25; Students - free but must pre-register!

Make checks payable to: “West Berks Mission District” indicate “GRIP Summit” on memo line.

o Mail payment with registration to: GRIP Summit, c/o WBMD, 1015 Windsor St. Reading PA 19604

o Register online and mail check or pay at the door with CASH or CHECK Sorry no credit cards

o High school/college student (free but MUST pre-register online or by mail)

ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP DONATION OPPORTUNITIES

I will be a “Summit Sponsor” for $75 _____ I will be a “Friend of Dreamers” for $150 _____

Here is my scholarship donation of ____

All proceeds of the Summit and extra donations benefit the GRIP Dreamer Scholarship. Thanks!

2019 IMMIGRATION

SUMMIT

GREATER READING

IMMIGRATION PROJECT

Monday, April 15th, 2019 8:30 am – 2:00 pm

Francis Hall, Alvernia University 400 Bernardine Street Reading, PA 19607 * This venue offers parking with shuttle service

G.R.I.P. is a coalition of community volunteers that invites you to learn more about current immigration topics. We advocate for creating awareness, sharing ideas, and seeking solutions to the many challenges facing our local immigrant community.

Registration forms available

OR register online at:

www.readingGRIP.org

Registration deadline is April 5th

$25 Registration fee includes lunch

Scholarship Donations Welcome! Summit Sponsor: $75.00 Friend of Dreamers: $150.00

Special screening of a short documentary, part of the

Familias Separadas project - stories from families detained at the Berks Family Residential Center.

Panel discussion to follow.

with Michelle Angela Ortiz

Michelle Angela Ortiz has

designed and created over 50 large-scale public art works around the world! The short documentary to be screened at the Summit is part of her Familias Separadas project.

Ortiz is a 2018 Pew Fellow, a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist National Fellow, and a Santa Fe Art Institute Equal Justice Resident Artist. In 2016, she received the Americans for the Arts' Public Art Year in Review Award which honors outstanding public art projects in the nation.

See more at: www.michelleangela.com

She has generously donated the above framed poster of her Harrisburg art installation to be raffled at the Summit.