Schedule

​9:00 am - Opening Prayer with Bishop Soto
9:30 am - Passing on the faith to engage and accompany with Dr. Robert McCarty*  
12:00 pm - Lunch Break
1:00 pm - Interrupting racism in school and parish settings with Dr. Ernest Uwazie and Dr. Jason Javier-Watson*
3:20 pm - Closing Prayer

*Both Morning and Afternoon session include time for your parish leadership or Catholic School team to work as a group to dive deeper into the topic and brainstorm action steps to go back to bring back to your parish or school. 

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Passing on the faith to engage and accompany

Part 1: “Passing on the Faith: The Changing Territory for Ministry”
Where has everyone gone? And can we bring them home? Recent research has identified the challenge of engaging children, young adults, and adults in the faith journey. Young people are searching elsewhere to meet their fundamental hungers and yearnings and they are crafting a religious identity separate from our faith communities. Our Catholic schools have an essential role in being Church for our students and their families.

Part 2: “Engagement and Accompaniment: A New Ministry Map”
We need to identify the practical pastoral strategies that enhance affiliation and engagement with the faith community and examine implications for parish and school life. As ministry leaders and as caring individuals, we will explore what it means to accompany young people on their spiritual journeys. And we will propose Catholicism as a comprehensive way of living – a way of encountering Jesus amidst the chaos.
​​Presented by:

Bob McCarty has been in professional ministry since 1973, serving in parish, school, diocesan, and national settings. He offers consultations, retreats, workshops and training programs in ministry skills and issues internationally. Bob serves as the project coordinator for the Saint Mary’s Press research project, Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation in Young Catholics. 

Interrupting racism in school and parish settings

The current national crisis of racial justice as well as recurrent concern about anti blackness poses some challenges and opportunities for engaging in meaningful critical dialogues about race relations and social justice. The presentation defines key elements and forms of racism, analyzes their experiences or cases in the school environment, and identifies key strategies and tips for positive response and interruption by school and/or parish staff and volunteers, plus some resources for further learning and follow up support. The session will be interactive, including lecture presentations, short exercises, and group activity.
Presented by:

Dr. Ernest Uwazie  is the Chair & Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice and the Director of the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution at California State University. He also serve on the Sacramento Diocesan Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism. 

Dr. Jason Javier-Watson is Assistant Principal for 9th& 10thgrades at St. Francis Catholic High School. Over the past few years, he has trained over one-thousand educators from across the country on diversity issues in public, charter, independent, and higher education institutions.