Please join me in Overland Park, Kansas for two powerful days of discovery, April 25-26, 2018 and learn what is means to build bridges to resilience. I am excited to be a keynote speaker for the Bridging to Resilience National Conference put on by ESSDACK. Attendees will learn powerful strategies for resilience that go beyond just being trauma informed.

ESSDACK does good work to solve the problems of poverty and trauma. In all my years of research and travel, I believe that ESSDACK has what could be a national model that delivers great outcomes for those who work with people stuck in poverty. A portion of this conference is focused on the movement to create trauma-informed schools.

This language appears on the conference's website:

http://resilience.essdack.org/

We believe that building a collaborative and resilient community to both heal trauma and solve poverty in our classrooms and neighborhoods has the ability to change lives. We believe that working together can make a difference. And we believe these are issues that we can no longer ignore.

So let’s start with this essential question: What is the one thing that has to happen or nothing else matters?

At the conference, parents, students, teachers, school administrators, members of other nonprofit organizations, social workers, and caregivers will gather from around the country to learn about, teach, and perhaps even discover new solutions for both poverty and trauma