• Using Evidence Based Programming to Increase Resilience in Military Families, AMY MAJERLE--Learn how ADAPT (After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools) is being used to strengthen parenting during post-deployment reintegration in Minnesota's military families.
• Addressing How Technology Contributes to and Challenges Resilience of Family Members: Implications for Parent and Family Life Educators, DR. SUSAN WALKER--We will discuss supporting family professionals in their knowledge of technology use as a content area for their work with family members.
• Mental Well Being and Learning Communities, ANNA LYNN--Mental Health is more than the absence of illness. A Public Health approach is about building community capacity to promote mental well-being skills and address the needs and social conditions that shape mental health. Determinants of mental well-being include individual and family factors, and social factors like economics, policies, opportunities for engagement and health equity. Learn about the arenas of opportunity for communities and organizations to promote mental health for the whole population, and how your work fits in this model.
• Rooted in Resilience: Overcoming Trauma, Building Strength, LINSEY MCMURRIN--Participants will develop a better understanding of the inherent strength that lies within our communities and discover ways to advocate for capacity-building using a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive framework to support community-driven change.
• Trauma Sensitive Schools in Greater Minnesota, LINSEY MCMURRIN -- Peacemaker Resources is challenging Minnesota schools to become trauma sensitive. We will share how we’ve trained over 3000 Minnesota teachers about ACEs, impacts of trauma on the brain, and implicationsof historical trauma. We guide schools through building trauma sensitive practices including SEL programs, restorative practices, and teacher self-care programs.