03 Feb Building the Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems
Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience Workshop Series
From 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM ET
Free
Presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives, & PACEs Connection
Description
The Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience: Workshop Series will bring experts from sectors across the country to accelerate the movement by providing stakeholders, advocates and practitioners with the tools necessary to encourage and assist systems in every community in integrating trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and healing-centered approaches and principles into their daily operations, thereby making America trauma-informed. Click here to learn more about the series and upcoming workshops.
Panel 1: Justice Systems (Led by Becky Haas)
- Chief Christopher Leusner, Middle Township, NJ
- Ben David, District Attorney, The State of North Carolina
- Dr. Stephanie Covington, Clinician, Author, Organizational Consultant, and Lecturer in Addiction, Trauma and Recovery
- Sheriff Walt McNeil, Leon County Sheriff’s Office
- Share Your Story - William Mazur, Acadia Healthcare (former Deputy Chief, Atlantic City, NJ)
Panel 2: Child Welfare and Transition Age Youth
- Panel facilitator: Rashaun Bennett, Director of Operations, National Youth Employment Coalition
- Moderator: Karen Johnson, Director, Change in Mind Institute, Social Current)
- Keri Richmond, Manager of Child Welfare Policy, American Academy of Pediatrics; Executive Director, FosterStrong
- Sixto Cancel, Founder and CEO, Think of Us, Washington, D.C.
- Michele Grimes, Director of Counseling and STRIVE, Youth Guidance, Chicago, IL
- Tim Grove, Senior Consultant, Wellpoint Care Network (SaintA), Milwaukee, WI
- Jas Snell, Jim Casey Initiative Young Fellow
- Amber Goodrich, Youth Villages, New Hampshire