This panel discussion is hosted by the Robertson Center at Success Academy. Below is info from their website:
Join us for a discussion on spotting signs of kids in crisis, strategies for supporting them, and how to build a happier, healthier classrooms for you and each of your students.
Doors open at 5:15pm
Refreshments at 5:30pm
Program Begins at 5:40pm
FREE | Open To All | Adults Only
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JACOB HAM
Dr. Ham is a clinical psychologist, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Child Trauma and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He receives federal and local funding to create and advance trauma-informed practices throughout multiple child serving systems. He is a highly sought trainer and consultant on trauma-informed engagement and maintains an active clinical practice at Mount Sinai Beth Israel for children, families and adults with a particular focus on using moment-to-moment relationship-based interventions that enhance attachment to overcome trauma and improve mental health. He received his PhD at UMass Boston and finished clinical training at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston.
MEET THE PANEL
BONNIE LOUGHNER
Bonnie Loughner is a bilingual, English/Spanish, licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with expertise in evidence-based family treatment, criminal justice policy and practice, and school based mental health treatment. She is trained in several evidence-based models including Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Incredible Years, and the Blues Program. Bonnie’s interests lie in the intersectionality of poverty, race, mental health, and the criminal justice system. Bonnie currently works as the Assistant Vice President of the School and Community Impact Program at the New York Foundling. In this role she is focused on understanding the school-to-prison pipeline and trauma/complex trauma in low-income neighborhoods throughout New York City. She also oversees all clinical, administrative, and managerial aspects of the program. Prior to this role, Bonnie spent several years providing direct FFT treatment to youth at risk of placement within the criminal justice system, and then later supervised a team of five clinicians providing FFT treatment to families involved with the child welfare system. Bonnie is a Certified Field Instructor supervising MSW students and has a Post-Master’s Certificate in Child and Family Therapy.
STEPHEN POWELL
Stephen Powell is the chief programs and partnerships officer of the National CARES Mentoring Movement, founded by Essence Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Susan L. Taylor. Previously, Stephen served as the executive director of Mentoring USA. He was a founding board member of the NYC Young Men’s Initiative (YMI) and the Newark My Brother’s Keeper Initiative; and led a Campaign for Black Male Achievement initiative to train and recruit hundreds of mentors. Stephen was named a White House “Champion of Change” under President Obama, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Nth Dimensions, Inc. and Cinnamon Girl, Inc., and on the Chicago Beyond Trauma Advisory Council. Stephen is an alumnus of Columbia University's Graduate Business School and Howard University, where he was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, Beta Chapter. He resides in NJ with his wife, Marlaina and two daughters, Sinclair Adina and Simone Alexandra.
PETER BROWN
Peter Brown leads the Crisis Support and Prevention team at Success Academy, dedicated to providing mental health services and social-emotional learning to SA scholars. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP), and graduate of Columbia University (Educational Psychology) and University of Michigan (Sociology). He was a founding staff member of SA Cobble Hill and SA Williamsburg. Proud father of two beautiful, brilliant, and sometimes (often) challenging children.
THE ROBERTSON CENTER
Something happens in a room full of educators. Ideas get bigger, barriers shrink, defy-the-odds notions feel downright within reach. We believe in these rooms — in the power of bringing together our country’s fiercest believers in the capacity of kids to help them set it free. At the Robertson Center, makers of magical classrooms find the content, conversation and community they need to accelerate their inspiring work.