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Adversity and Resilience Symposium - 2021

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Speakers

Kevin McNeil

Victim Advocate, Speaker, and Author

Linda Grabbe, PhD

Certified Community Resiliency Model Teacher

Bria Davis

Certified Community Resiliency Model Teacher

Lisa Ibekwe, LCSW

Therapist, Healer, and Advocate

Alfred Garner II. MSW

Social Worker, Director of Zone 3 Community Initiatives with Chris 180

Tonika Keith

Director of Bibb County DFCS

Stan Sonu, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine

Judge Michael Key

Troup County Juvenile Court

Jaqueline Jones, EdD

Troup County School System

Sergeant Robert Kirby

LaGrange Police Department

Kay Stargill, LPC, CPCS

Coordinator for Social Emotional Health, Troup County School System

Sheriff David Davis

Bibb County Sheriff’s Office

Yameika Head, MD

Medical Director of the Crescent House, Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital

Shannon Martucci

Child/Adolescent Forensic Interviewer

Verena Brown, MD

Board Certified Child Abuse Pediatrician, Specializing in Physical and Sexual Abuse

Jacob Warren, PhD

Diversity/inclusion Advocate and Health Equity Researcher

Jill Vanderhoek

Executive Director of Community Partnership, Certified Connections Matter Trainer

Andrea S. Meyer Stinson, PhD, LMFT, CFLE

Interim Program Director

Maria Andrade

ABC Breath

Gloria Smith Cissé LMSW, LPC, CTRT

Southern Center for Choice Theory

Kwamé Drum Circle

Curtis Jones, EdD

Superintendent of Bibb County School District

Elaine Lucas

Bibb County Commissioner

Anita Reynolds Howard, DA

Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney

Kemberlie Sanderson

Manager, Crescent House

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Resilient Middle Georgia | Atrium Health Navicent

National Child Abuse Prevention Month, also known as Child Abuse Prevention Month in America, is an annual observance in the United States dedicated to raising awareness and preventing child abuse. April has been designated Child Abuse Prevention Month in the United States since 1983.

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Community Partnership

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Resilient Middle Georgia

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Macon Volunteer Clinic

We provide primary healthcare at no cost to uninsured working adults of Macon-Bibb County.

PCA Georgia

Connecting Caregivers Professionals to Resources

Rainbow House Children's Resource Center

Where the hope of the Rainbow begins

Georgia Center for Child Advocacy

The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy champions the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy and collaboration.

The Comfy Place, LLC

A THERAPEUTIC SPACE FOR ALL TO HEAL!

First Choice Primary Care

A high quality, affordable medical home for every Middle Georgian.

Bibb County School District PBIS - Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports

PBIS helps foster resilience in students at school.

ABC Breathe (All Bodies Can Breathe)

We educate children and caregivers skills for social and emotional learning through breathing and yoga.

Atrium Health Navicent

Our mission is to improve the health, elevate hope, and advance healing- for all

Crescent House

A service of Beverly Knight Olson Children's Hospital