Jan Arnow To Discuss Book IN THE LINE OF FIRE: RAISING KIDS IN A VIOLENT WORLD

Ms. Jan Arnow will discuss "In the Line of Fire: Raising Kids in a Violent World" on Monday, August 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Paul Sawyier Public Library's Community Room in Frankfort, Kentucky. The program is free to the public.

You are invited to attend a very unique program with Jan Arnow, an internationally renowned authority on violence abatement, multicultural education, prejudice reduction and leadership. Ms. Arnow's latest book is "In the Line of Fire: Raising Kids in a Violent World."

This is a unique must-attend event for all teachers, children, law enforcement officers, social workers, religious clergy, guidance counselors, media and anyone interested in working with children to create a more just, less violent and humane society.

Ms. Arnow will be in Frankfort, Kentucky on Monday, August 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Paul Sawyier Public Library's Community Room. The program is sponsored by the Frankfort Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), and is free to the public. UNA is one of the largest non-partisan 501 c 3 foreign policy associations with 150 chapters (4 in Kentucky) and 24,000 members around the USA.

Please share this invitation with your family, friends and colleagues and plan to attend this free program.

Jan Arnow is an internationally recognized authority on multicultural education, violence abatement, prejudice reduction, creativity, and leadership, and is a highly respected and award-winning author of nine books and scores of articles for a variety of national magazines. Her latest book is In the Line of Fire: Raising Kids in a Violent World, published by Butler Books in 2015, which won a very rare double award from the Nautilus Book Awards, a gold award from Mom's Choice Award, and was a finalist for the Indy Book of the Year. She also co-authored the comprehensive peace curriculum for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Steps Along the Way: Living as Peacemakers in a Violent World, which was distributed to 11,500 congregations in 2003. She is currently working on several projects including the design and implementation of a 5-year coalition-building and leadership program in central Africa (Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo), and several new books. Her teaching experience ranges from workshops to university courses. She has developed and successfully taught pilot programs both regionally and nationally on various issues of leadership, creativity and education, cross-cultural communication, multicultural education and violence abatement.

She was named a Carl Wilkens Fellow of the Genocide Intervention Network in 2010. Her speaking and consulting engagements have included such museums as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, California, the American Academies of Psychoanalysis and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry as well as many universities and school systems, not-for-profit organizations and corporations throughout the country. She addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the issues of children and violence in 1996, and has been interviewed on numerous radio and television programs including NPR's Morning Edition and New York's Channel One. She has also been a consultant for the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. on issues relating to the education of migrant children. Her continuing work in grassroots program development and child advocacy, particularly for at-risk children, has made her a sought-after speaker and consultant on matters of political mobilization, violence abatement, multicultural education and prejudice reduction.

For three years in the 1990s, she was the Director of Multicultural Education at the Kentucky Department of Education. As part of her responsibilities at the Department, she defined multicultural education for the Commonwealth during their landmark school reform; created policy guidelines for implementation of a multicultural curriculum; designed and implemented state-wide multicultural education workshop/training matrices and conferences; and worked closely with both Department and district personnel to bring them up to operability on multicultural instruction.

She established the Institute for the Prevention of Youth Violence in Louisville, Kentucky (formerly known as the Institute for Intercultural Understanding) in the 1980s, and Innovations in Peacemaking International (IPI) in 2013. Through IPI, she is working on an international program titled Voiceless Victims, a project documenting the effects on children of conflict, violence and war shown in their drawings and poetry. Arnow's work has received funding from two unique entertainment products -- a benefit recording from Columbia Records created just for this project called 'Til Their Eyes Shine -- The Lullaby Album (released July, 1992), and the companion film, Child of Mine -- The Lullaby Video, first broadcast on the Disney Channel in December 1992 and winner of the CableAce Award for Best musical special on cable television during 1993. This recording and film feature prominent vocalists including Carole King, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosanne Cash, Dionne Warwick, Brenda Russell, Gloria Estefan and others performing lullabies, many of which were composed for this album.