Intended Audience:
- Family support professionals
- County social service and mental health professionals
- Non-profit social service and mental health professionals
- Early childhood program administrators and educators
Guest Speaker: Todd Sosna, Ph.D., Management Consultant
Dr. Sosna is a management consultant for public and private behavioral health, social service, and corrections agencies focusing on outcome evaluation, strategic planning, leadership development, and program design and management. Previously, he has held executive management roles with two large private nonprofit social services agencies in Los Angeles. Prior to his work with nonprofit agencies he was Assistant Director for Santa Barbara County Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services where he led their children’s mental health programs including the Multiagency Integrated System of Care, a national model of interagency collaboration. He was also a Senior Training, Policy, and Research Associate, and later Deputy Director, at the California Institute for Mental Health—a California-based training center, advancing a broad range statewide initiatives focusing on systems of care, peer support programs, evidence-based practice dissemination, early childhood mental health, child welfare and juvenile justice reform, and outcome evaluation.
- Advances in strategies for promoting resilience and addressing adverse childhood events
- Unique and persistent challenges for children and families experiencing intergenerational poverty
- Important lessons from systems change initiatives intended to overcome fragmented service delivery systems
- Singular benefits of the two-generation model for building resilience, particularly for children and families experiencing toxic stress
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