Dr. El Brown
Dr. El Brown is family engagement strategist and faculty member in the Early Childhood Education Master of Arts in Teaching Program at American University, in Washington DC. Early in her career, Dr. El served as an Elementary and Early Childhood educator in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Upon her return to the to the US, Dr. El founded KinderJam, an Early Childhood Education care, enrichment, and training agency that has serviced young children and their families, globally. Dr. El believes all families deserve to win. Therefore, families and professionals deserve to be exposed to the high-quality information, skills, and strategies needed to assist in building strong families and helping young children maximize their personal potential. Above all, Dr. El Brown is the proud mother of a 15-year-old son on the autism spectrum, affectionately known as SuperDuperYoungMan (SDYM).
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Opening Keynote:
I See Greatness in You: The Power of Appreciation
Monday March 28, 2022
12pm- 12:55pm
The Harvard Business Review states that there may be nothing more precious than the feeling that we truly matter — that we contribute unique value to the whole, and that we’re recognized for it. Taking time to see the greatness and uniqueness in your team is essential to appreciate the people who keep the wheel moving forward. Join Dr. El in this VHSA appreciation celebration of YOU!!!
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Anjali Gowda Ferguson, Ph.D. (She/Her)
Dr. Ferguson is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in trauma-informed care (to include racial trauma), early childhood mental health, and parenting. Dr. Ferguson's research and clinical interests include culturally competent models of care with efforts to promote community engagement of diverse populations and demystify mental health. Dr. Ferguson earned her Doctorate in Medical Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is currently the staff psychologist for the Child Development Clinic in the division of Developmental Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU and the Psychology Faculty for the Virginia Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (VA-LEND) Program.
www.draferguson.com
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Session Title: Reconceptualizing Social Determinants of Health and Working Towards Systemic Change.
Monday, March 28, 2022
1:00pm- 2:25pm
Description: Attendees will have an introduction to Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). They will gain an understanding of the impact of larger systems on health, mental health, and access to care. Participants will begin to build awareness of the complexities of systemic racism and how we must reconceptualize our practices to think more holistically. Course will include case examples and activities to promote application of knowledge with a brief introduction to racial trauma and culturally responsive approaches.
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Brenda Workman
Empowerment speaker, whole-food, plant-based diet enthusiast, and inspirational blogger.
Brenda Workman works for Bluefield College building partnerships with organizations and companies. She worked in academic support for three years at Bluefield College in her former role, teaching academic success courses and leading workshops for students. On the side, Brenda speaks to groups about the importance of living intentionally, eating whole food plant based, and setting and achieving goals. Brenda has spoken to groups at professional training sessions, ladies church events and professional business conferences. She has been married to Mark for 40 years. She is a mother to four children and grandmother to nine sweet grandchildren. She enjoys quiet mornings with her coffee and prayer journal in hand. She also enjoys growing her own vegetables. Check out her website at www.brendaworkmanspeaks.com
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Session Title: Empowering Families to Live Intentionally
Monday, March 28, 2022
2:30pm- 3:55pm
Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People said, “If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.” Are the families you work with allowing other people and circumstances to shape their lives by default? Would you like to empower them to set goals and begin to make changes in their lives? We know that vision and purpose open up doors of opportunity for people. In this presentation, Brenda will describe how to help your families set, plan & implement their goals. These goals can be related to education, work, financial independence, better health, parenting success, and relationships. Once they begin to set goals, take small steps to get to those goals and then, see those goals come to fruition, they will be empowered and motivated to keep setting goals. It will be the beginning of a win-win situation.
Session Title: Eating Intentionally- The Power of Your Plate
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
9am- 10:25am
We know food plays a huge part in our health, yet so many Americans are living with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and many other health concerns. How much of a role does food play in the outcomes of your health? In this presentation, Brenda will talk about the power of your plate, as well as how to practically implement good eating habits in your busy lives. She will share some healthy recipes that are quick to prepare, as well as healthy eating tips that will set you up for success. You will walk away from this presentation ready to eat more intentionally and have some tools in your belt to get you started.
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Rashanda Jenkins
ICF, International – Health Specialist
Rashanda has served the HS/EHS community for 13 over years. Ms. Jenkins joined the TTA Network in 2019 as a Health Specialist. As the Health Specialist, she supports grantees with individualized TTA in areas such as safe and healthy learning environments; new health leadership and orientation; emergency preparedness; ongoing monitoring and quality improvement systems; and data monitoring and tracking. In her previous roles, while working at a grantee, she analyzed and used multiple program datasets to make informed decisions for program operations, ongoing monitoring, and quality improvement. Ms. Jenkins provided resources and information on health-related topics and supported states in developing and strengthening state health manager networks. This wide-ranging experience with building organizational capacity and management systems enables her to provide TTA in specialty areas of data analysis, health and safety, and group facilitation and presentation. Ms. Jenkins currently lives in Arlington, VA.
Dr. Pamela Waddell
ICF, International - Family Engagement Specialist
Dr. Waddell has over 25 years of experience in early childhood education and in administering preschool and Head Start programs. She has served as an Adjunct Professor and has provided training and technical assistance for the last seven years. Prior to that time, she was a Head Start Director and County Director and also served as an Education Manager. Her TTA work includes experience in program design and management, program planning, classroom quality, monitoring, mental health, professional development and personnel management. She has extensive experience in the development of collaborative models and in the implementation of collaboration among the Head Start program and the local education agency. Pam has a BA in English/Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech and a M.Ed. in Human Development and Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College. She is also a National Certified Counselor.
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Session Title: " You Can't Pour From An Empty Cup: Promoting Staff Wellness"
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
10:30am- 11:55am Part I
Staff wellness is a key component in supporting Trauma Informed Care. When providers are overly stressed it can impact the quality of care they are able to give. This session will explore the role stress play son health, effectiveness at work, as well as program wide wellness. Tools to reflect on how stress impacts our bodies, motions, and thoughts will be provided. Mindfulness strategies will also be presented as tools that can buffer the impacts of stress and can be used personally or with children and families. Promoting Wellness at a programmatic level will also be covered throughout this session.
Session Title: "Using the Parent Family, Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework to Promote Healing and Resilience in Head Start Programs" Part II from morning session.
Tuesday March 29, 2022
1:00pm- 2:25pm
When families know they are understood, they can be more engaged and responsive to support Head Start and Early Head Start leaders and staff continue to learn about adult trauma and integrate strategies for self-care and well-being. This session will explore how participants can use the PFCE Framework to strengthen trauma-informed systems and services that promote healing.
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Dr. Steve Webb
President, Safe School Systems
Dr. Steve Webb is an award winning school administrator, School Resource Officer and founder of Safe School Systems, a group that helps schools identify threats to their learning environment and guides their development of common-sense strategies. He is a nationally known presenter on school safety issues and author of the Amazon best-selling book Education in a Violent World: A Practical Guide to Keeping Our Kids Safe. As an established school leader, Dr. Webb has been President of both the Illinois Association of School Administrators and the Association of Illinois Rural and Small Schools and is currently an Executive Board Member for the American Association of School Administrators. He was awarded the "National Safe School Leadership Award" from the National Association of School Resource Officers, recognized as a "Leader Among Us" by the Southern Business Journal and named "Superintendent of Distinction" by the Illinois State Board of Education. In addition, he is an Associate Professor in Educational Administration at Southern Illinois University.
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Session Title: Education in a Violent World: A Culture of Caring
Tuesday March 29, 2022
2:30pm- 3:55pm
Veteran award-winning school administrator and police officer and Author of the Amazon best-selling book Education in a Violent World: A Practical Guide to Keeping Our Kids Safe, Dr. Steve Webb offers insights on his vast research in the prevention of violence and utilizing strategic behavior threat assessment at the classroom level to avert disaster.
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Dana Yarbrough
Director, Center for Family Involvement @ VCU
Dana Yarbrough is assistant director of the Partnership for People with Disabilities, Virginia's university center for excellence in developmental disabilities located at Virginia Commonwealth University. Among her many roles at VCU, Dana directs the $1.3 million Center for Family Involvement and its initiatives statewide to support diverse families of children and young adults with developmental disabilities and special health care needs to become effective advocates for their children and leaders for systems change. Dana is the mother of a 26 year old daughter who despite significant support needs for physical, intellectual and physical disabilities owns her own dog boarding business. She holds masters degrees in transformational non-profit leadership and special education secondary transition.
Yali Pang
Yali Pang is a diversity fellow at the Partnership for People with Disabilities at VCU where she leads research projects on cultural brokering intervention for racial/ethnic minority families of children with disabilities. Her research interests are in nonprofit management and social equity. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Department of Political Science at VCU where she taught research methods courses to undergraduate students. Yali holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration at VCU and a masters degree in corporation management from Southwest University in China.
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Session Title: Redefining Family Resiliency Through Cultural Brokering
Wednesday March 30, 2022
9:00am - 10:25am
In this session, a panel of cultural brokers and researchers will share their process for redefining family resilience, highlight training resources, and discuss resiliency outcomes from families participating in pilot research on the intervention. The model of cultural brokering we provide based on Parent to Parent evidence informed practices is an emerging practice that has been shown effective in engaging culturally and linguistically diverse parents of children with disabilities, helping the connect and collaborate with service agencies and building their confidence in navigating and accessing early childhood, education and disability systems. Through the experiences of cultural brokers and other families of children with disabilities for which we provide parent to parent support, we have now come to better understand and redefine family resilience. Based on the work of Froma Walsh’s (2016) family resiliency practice framework, we incorporated the cultural brokers’ understanding of resiliency concepts; adapted training materials to build their micro skills in helping families reflect on their belief system process (e.g., normalizing distress, having high expectations, being okay with uncertainty, instilling hope to overcome challenges), organizational process (e.g., adapting to meet new challenges, reconnecting with those who have become distant, seeking support from community) and communication process (e.g., being a truth seeker, sharing positive interactions, sharing decision making, moving from reactive to proactive); and conducted research on the parent matches involving the cultural brokers. Specifically, we were interested in how families learn to apply family strengths and resources in a way consistent with their beliefs so they think about life changes and changes more positively, feel more hopeful and confident that they can manage it, and respond or adapt to challenges together.
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Jessica Elzey
ChildPlus Software
With an extensive background in Early Childhood Education, Jessica Elzey is an expert in not only early education, but also special education, child assessments and curricula. Jessica has a bachelor's degree in Special Education and Early Childhood Education, a master's degree in Early Childhood Education and a Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction.
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Session Title: Simplify Your Data Management with ChildPlus
Wednesday March 30, 2022
10:30am- 11:55am
During this session, users will learn about ChildPlus Mobile and its accompanying features. With ChildPlus Mobile, users have full access to their Family Services data. You can log events, capture photos, videos, and electronic signatures, run reports, like family history reports, home visit reports, and Family Outcomes reports, and more directly from a mobile device. This session will also discuss the nationally-renowned Desired Results Developmental Profile, also known as DRDP, which is a research-based, birth to five child assessment that is also available in ChildPlus Mobile.
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Paula Vest- Woodfolk
Founder/Parent Educator, Helping Families Hope & Heal
Paula Vest-Woodfolk has a heart for helping people and has served the families in her community for over 25 years. She specializes in educating and supporting parents as they provide a healthy environment for their children in very challenging situations. Paula has an exceptional gift to assess parents' skills and build on their strengths while addressing their challenges without criticism or judgement. She is the Founder/CEO of Helping Families Hope & Heal where she teaches and facilitates parenting classes and workshops focusing on effective communication, setting and maintaining boundaries, and understanding our children. She is a Family Mediator and an approved instructor of the VA Supreme Court's co-parenting classes and seminars. Paula also serves as a mentor for new counselors at a local counseling agency. She and her husband have two adult children and reside in Charlottesville VA.
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Session Title: Working With and Through Parents
Wednesday March 30, 2022
1:00pm- 2:25pm
Parents should be the first teachers and strongest advocates for their children. Many lack confidence to operate in that role. How can we build a strong partnership with them and support their efforts? Participants will explore strategies to: overcome barriers and resistance; build rapport and trust; establish clear boundaries and expectations; and identify and maximize the strengths of each family.
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Dr. Raymond Heipp
School Health Corporation, Senior Specialist for Special Education and Early Childhood
Dr. Raymond T. Heipp, is a 35+ year veteran of administration and classrooms for general education and special needs students. He has designed many support programs for various schools, Head Start/Early Childhood Programs, and facilities. His expertise in assistive technology and creating holistic spaces has enabled him to design updated approaches when working with students of all abilities and educators. He currently works with schools and other institutions in classroom, sensory room, and specialized room design as well as consulting on how to best support all individuals in education and work spaces through the use of products which might be most appropriate in various situations and approaches to working with all students in various capacities. Dr. Heipp firmly believes that everyone, no matter what their ability, has a voice (or spirit) and deserves a chance to succeed. He suggests that we never doubt their abilities!
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Session Title: Creating and Maintaining Holistically Healthy Environments During Visits and at Home
Wednesday March 30, 2022
2:30pm- 3:55pm
The last two years have redefined what it means to be holistically healthy. Prior to that time, many people thought it was simply enough to get through the cold and flu season by having facial tissue available and cleaning up once a week. We know now that true holistic health must be approached comprehensively in all environments. During this session, we will walk through the various areas which create a comprehensive holistic health program. We will begin with the idea of healthy environments, including infection control procedures. What are the processes to keeping both the home environment disinfected and still maintain an area that is conducive to living and growing? How can we as Family Advocates and Health Managers make suggestions and model how to improve the home environment without sounding critical? We look at the cleaning and staging of areas as well as products which can keep these areas as healthy as possible. We then move into the idea of screenings while gathering information essential to the well-being of our children. We will look at processes and products which both streamline how we might do these screenings while gathering information essential to the well-being of our children. We will also take a look at how some groups are organizing that data to make sure that our centers are the most supportive they can be. Finally, we move into supports for mental health by looking at ways to support not only our children and their families, but also out staffs, and most importantly, ourselves. We live in a world that has vastly different “norms” than two years ago. This presentation seeks to give us a foundation from which we can build better holistically healthy environments for our children and families.
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The Dr. Yum Project
Dr. Nimali Fernando
Dr. Nimali Fernando (aka "Dr. Yum") is a pediatrician practicing in Fredericksburg, VA, and a founder of the website doctoryum.org and The Dr. Yum Project. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and School of Public Health with an M.D. and Masters in Public Health. She completed residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston and served there for two years as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She is the owner of Yum Pediatrics, a full-service general pediatrics practice with a focus on wellness and prevention through a healthy diet. Yum Pediatrics shares a large teaching kitchen and teaching garden with The Dr. Yum Project. She is also co-author of, ”Raising a Healthy Happy Eater” and “Dr. Yum’s Preschool Food Adventure.” She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is a proud mother of two boys and enjoys cooking with her family, running, and skiing.
Wendy Cannon
Cooking program & outreach specialist, preschool curriculum creative director
Wendy is a graduate of Mary Washington College. She is an early childhood educator and preschool program director. Her work with The Dr. Yum Project includes cooking instruction, community outreach, new recipe development, and helping to maintain the teaching garden. She also serves as the Preschool Curriculum Liaison for Dr. Yum’s Preschool Food Adventure. The mission of the Dr. Yum Project extends to Wendy's volunteer work with The Table at St. George's. This market-style pantry provides fresh produce and staples to the food insecure in the Fredericksburg community, where she is able to share her love of fresh fruits and vegetables to teach people ways that they can prepare them at home.
Sarah Moran, RDN
Registered Dietitian
Sarah is a registered dietitian who uses intuitive eating and a weight-neutral approach to help individuals and families take the stress out of eating, ditch diets, and enjoy food again. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics at James Madison University and went on to complete her Dietetic Internship at Virginia Tech. Since 2013, Sarah has produced and published food and nutrition videos on the Sarah Moran Nutrition YouTube channel. She reaches thousands of people each month through online video with a focus on practical tips, meal ideas, and nutrition education. Through her work with individuals, groups, and her online community, Sarah aims to help change the culture around food and eating and reduce the confusion that many feel about health and nutrition. Find more about Sarah at sarahmorannutrition.com.
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Session Title: Picky Eaters and the Pandemic: How Can Families Get Back to Health, Happy Mealtimes
Thursday March 31, 2022
9:00am-10:25am
COVID-19 pandemic has drastically increased already high rates of childhood obesity. How can we help kids and families back on track with nutrition? “Several times a week, I’m faced with the frustration of a parent of a picky eater, either in my pediatrics practice or in the Dr. Yum Project Kitchen where our team teaches families to cook. These parents are tired, worn out, and out of answers,” says Dr. Yum. Fortunately, taste preferences are not static. For almost all children, pickiness can be overcome. The average American family offers a vegetable just 3-5 times before they give up on it, saying “Too bad! Johnny does not like asparagus.” Research shows that they may need several more exposures before they learn to accept a new food. “When it comes to food, practice makes perfect, and what I observe is that most kids just aren’t practicing enough or in just the right ways,” says Dr. Yum. In this presentation, we will explore fun, creative ways that you can engage kids around food. You will learn practical solutions to help teachers and families overcome some of the most common barriers to raising healthy, happy eaters like time management, meal planning, and getting kids involved.
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Deana Buck
CDC's Act Early Ambassador to Virginia
Deana McGuire Buck, M.Ed., has worked in the field of early childhood development in Virginia for 36 years. In 2020, she retired from the Partnership for People with Disabilities, Virginia’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at Virginia Commonwealth University after 28 years of service. She served as Assistant Director, Early Childhood/Early Intervention Team Leader, and Principal Investigator for statewide initiatives funded to improve services for young children with disabilities and their families through quality professional development, including the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) for Virginia’s Part C Early Intervention system and Virginia’s Early Childhood Mental Health Initiative. She also directed projects to reach early care and education providers, local health department staff, and Head Start/Early Head Start personnel. She holds an undergraduate degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Longwood College and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Virginia. Ms. Buck has extensive experience in the design and provision of professional development, with a focus on the use of distance technology.
Through her work in early childhood systems in Virginia, Ms. Buck established and maintained a strong cross-sector network of colleagues who administer early childhood systems, including early care and education, early intervention, and home visiting. Ms. Buck is now serving in her fifth term as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Act Early Ambassador to Virginia, having played this role since 2012. She is fascinated by child development and loves being part of efforts that equip families and providers with information so that they can celebrate child development and act when concerns are identified.
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Session Title: The Power of Partnerships to "Learn the Signs" and "Act Early!
Thursday March 31, 2022
10:30am- 11:55am
Want to learn more about FREE tools to enhance developmental screening in your program, empower parents to observe and track their child’s development, and increase your knowledge of signs of potential delay and what to do when there is a concern? Come learn about the CDC’s Learn the Signs. Act Early (LTSAE) campaign! All participants will receive samples of the resources! During the session, participants will work in small groups to talk about specific resources from the LTSAE campaign, including children's books, the milestones tracker app, and developmental checklists.
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National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety (NCHBHS)
Trauma Informed Care Series
Dr. Vilma Reyes Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, Child Trauma Research Program.
Since 2009, Dr. Vilma has been providing Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) services, national training, clinical supervision, consultation and coordination of community-based mental health outreach services and evaluation. Dr. Reyes has years of experience in Head Start as a teacher, case manager and mental health consultant. She is an immigrant from Peru and is committed to equity, inclusion, and social justice for historically oppressed communities.
Miriam Dimmler, PhD, Professor, Associate Director, Community Mental Health Initiative Director, Child Trauma Research Program (CTRP) University of California, San Francisco.
Miriam Dimmler is a bilingual and bicultural clinical community psychologist. She leads training and implementation in community agencies on the evidence-based, culturally tailored, trauma-informed early childhood interventions models which were developed and tested at CTRP and adopted nationally in a range of early childhood settings and across disciplines.
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Session Title: Trauma Informed Care
Thursday March 31, 2022
1:00pm- 2:25pm
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Tracey Roden
Director of Assessment and Research, Frog Street
Tracey holds a tenured history of guiding research efforts and developing high-quality digital instruction and assessments. Tracey began her career in early childhood education as a preschool teacher and spent many years in the classroom as both a teacher and a coach before transitioning into educational product development and publishing. With her extensive knowledge and experience in early childhood education and leadership, Tracey continues to advocate for the advancement of early childhood education. Tracey has presented at several national conferences and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction.
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Session Title: The Importance of Intentionality in Promoting Growth & Development of Young Children
Thursday March 31, 2022
2:30pm- 3:55pm
Children grow and thrive when provided opportunities to initiate activities and follow their interests, but they also need active mentors to guide their learning through intentional and meaningful experiences. Teaching with intentionality applies best practices while offering a balance of child-guided and adult-guided experiences. Join Frog Street for this important session as we offer guidance and best practices focused on the importance of intentionality. This workshop will be geared toward Family Service Specialists to help parents work with their children at home.
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Dr. Michael Hubler, Ed.D.
Executive Director & Early Childhood Social - Emotional Development Specialist, Time to Sign
Dr. Michael S. Hubler earned his doctorate of education degree from Regent University and his masters of administration degree from Radford University, where he was a graduate teaching fellow. He has earned many prestigious awards in providing educational and service programs to youth, including: organization of the year, citizen of the year, White House and U.S. Congressional recognition, and outstanding minority education facility for the state of Florida. He has published over 40 books as the Vice President of Time to Sign in charge of Research, Training, and Curriculum Development. His doctoral specialization is the Social and Emotional Learning of Young Children and how it relates to learning and school readiness.
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Session Title: 100 Easy Ways to Promote Social–Emotional Learning
Friday April 1, 2022
9:00am- 10:25am
Participants will learn about children’s social-emotional development and how to use positive reinforcement, role-modeling, stories, music and games that provide a powerful foundation to enhance children’s learning and behavior. This workshop will teach teachers and specialists the 100 Easy Ways to Promote Social – Emotional Learning to guide their children through a positive, preventative, and effective instructional approach. During this workshop participants also learn to use strategies and techniques to bring young children out of their emotional brain into their logical brain to increase peer relations, expressing their feelings in a positive manner, and to improve self-regulating behavior.
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Lillian Hubler
President, Time to Sign
Mrs. Lillian I. Hubler is the Founder and President of Time to Sign, Inc. The foremost sign language trainer of young children’s educators, with having trained more than 125,000 educators nationwide. She is a dynamic presenter whose presentations are educational best practices, engaging, and fun. Lillian brings sign language into life for visual learning, social and emotional readiness, and classroom & behavior management best practices. Her methods are being used in over 3800 schools nationwide.
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Session Title: Sign Language to Enhance Brain Development through Kinesthetic Play – Utilizing Our 4 Brains & Our Natural Communication Languages
Friday April 1, 2022
10:30am- 11:55am
Innovative and enriching workshop for educators/parents to learn how to enhance learning and help children by understanding their brain’s emotional inter-workings, how this impacts children’s behavior, and what we can do to help our children to have a better day – everyday! Our children’s early years are spent in their emotional brain where it is harder to self-regulate, retain information, and grow behaviorally and academically. During this workshop participants will learn how to use sign language and other techniques to bring our children out of their emotional brain into their logical brain, in time producing better self-regulation skills. Participants will learn fun and revolutionary practices on how to connect with children using their communication languages.This workshop will provide attendees with quick and easy to implement strategies that will keep children in their logical brain; walking participants through a family/child-focused childcare environment from greeting to goodbye.
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Dr. El Brown
Dr. El Brown is family engagement strategist and faculty member in the Early Childhood Education Master of Arts in Teaching Program at American University, in Washington DC. Early in her career, Dr. El served as an Elementary and Early Childhood educator in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Upon her return to the to the US, Dr. El founded KinderJam, an Early Childhood Education care, enrichment, and training agency that has serviced young children and their families, globally. Dr. El believes all families deserve to win. Therefore, families and professionals deserve to be exposed to the high-quality information, skills, and strategies needed to assist in building strong families and helping young children maximize their personal potential. Above all, Dr. El Brown is the proud mother of a 15-year-old son on the autism spectrum, affectionately known as SuperDuperYoungMan (SDYM).
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Closing Keynote: "Lunch and Learn"
Friday April 1, 2022
12pm- 12:55pm
The Secret to Building a Top Notch Village: Five keys finding and being the support your community needs to thrive.
Through storytelling and real-life experiences, Dr. El will reveal the Secret to Building a Top Notch Village. Go on a journey of discovering the tools and strategies needed to form a winning team or village that will work in rhythm towards a common goal. We know it takes a village. So, let’s make sure that ours is Top Notch!
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