Thursday, October 14
View the schedule for day 2 below and sign up for all main stage & breakout sessions!
*Note: In addition to registering for the Impact Conference on the home page, you must sign up for each individual main stage & breakout session for each day. Zoom information for each session will be emailed after registration.
8:30 AM – 8:40 AM: Welcome
8:40 AM – 9:45 AM: Mainstage Speaker – Kimberly Davis, CIS National Board Member and Executive Vice President, Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs for the National Hockey League
Presenter Bio: Kimberly B. Davis currently serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs at the National Hockey League, the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. In this capacity, Kim leads a role reporting to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to attract, develop and retain fans – with a specific focus on multi-cultural audiences – through culture, youth participation, and social impact initiatives.
Ms. Davis has been recognized as #1 on Sportsnet’s list of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Sports, as well as honored in Sports Illustrated’s “The Unrelenting” Most Powerful Women in Sports, Hockey News’ 2020 “Top 100” Most Influential Leaders in the Sport, Essence Magazine’s “Woke” – 2019 Change Agents, Adweek’s “30 Most Powerful Women in Sports,” and Sports Business Journal’s “GameChangers.” She has received other notable recognitions including Savoy Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America” and was showcased in Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business.” In 2012, she was profiled with First Lady Michelle Obama in Essence magazine’s “28 Most Influential Black Women in America.”
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9:50 AM – 10:10 AM: Break
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM: Breakout Sessions
Register for one breakout session for Thursday from 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM below!
Breakout Session Option 1: Developing Your Part-Time Staff
Session Description: In this session, you will learn how to develop your organization’s part-time staff with formal and informal learning opportunities. Taking both a strategic and compassionately human-centered approach, we will take steps to identify your organization’s priorities, your staff’s needs, and staff development options you can implement in the next 90 days.
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Presenter: Heather Burright (she/her)
Presenter Bio: Leveraging 15 years of professional experience, Heather Burright, founder and CEO of Skill Masters Market, specializes in creating dynamic, people-centric solutions that drive business goals. With her comes expertise in strategies for diversity, equity, and inclusion; instructional design; and change management. She’s dedicated to identifying core competencies that are needed to see real results and to creating the learning strategies and solutions needed to develop those competencies. Most recently, Heather managed a proprietary competency model for YMCA of the USA. She spent countless hours educating and influencing HR leaders across the country, deepening their knowledge of why and how to implement the model. Her success with the competency model was at a 94% adoption rate. Heather earned an advanced degree from Jacksonville State University in Alabama.
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Breakout Session Option 2: Let’s Talk about Risk, Baby
Session Description: CIS national has reviewed four years of Total Quality System documentation within our network. The evidence shows that accreditation must focus on risk associated with organizational health. The new accreditation standards recognize this along with an increased focus on risk management and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This session will introduce the re-designed standards and processes, including the new Annual Risk Management Assessment, that corresponds with End Of Year reporting.
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Presenters: Julie Dennis (she/her) and Kevin Van Bell (he/his)
Presenter Bios: Julie A. Dennis loves talking about risk and standards, so it makes perfect sense that her work focuses on risk mitigation and performance measurement. As Sr. Program Manager on the Accreditation team, over the past five years she has reviewed 100 organizations in the Communities In Schools network as they underwent TQS 2.0 (re)accreditation. Additionally, she has helped redefine and reshape the goals of the accreditation process to make it into what it is today. Prior to CIS, Julie was a research intern at Editorial Projects in Education (publishers of Education Week) while completing her Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland.
Kevin Van Bell has been with CIS since February of 2021 as an Associate on the Accreditation team. Prior to his work at CIS, he worked in higher education as an assessment and accreditation specialist for education programs, Kevin has worked closely with well over a dozen different national accrediting bodies and is excited to help Communities In Schools use accreditation to benefit organizations. He holds a Master’s degree in Education from Kent State University.
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Breakout Session Option 3: Cracking The Intersectionality of Latinx Culture, Mental Health, and Acculturation with School-Aged Children and Their Families
Session Description: In this workshop we will identify Latinx cultural values (e.g., familismo, respeto, simpatia) implicated in Latinx mental health. We will then discuss how the process of acculturation can shape differences in endorsement of these values between Latinx parents and their children resulting in acculturation-gap conflicts. We will then learn an evidence-based model aimed at helping providers to take cultural and contextual factors into consideration when working with Latinx families in schools. Lastly, we will address the importance of socioemotional health aimed at helping all individuals learn and practice helpful coping strategies to strengthen the whole family’s health.
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenters: Juan Prandoni (he/him) and Jandira Zaki, LCSW (she/her)
Presenter Bios: Juan received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2018, where his research focused on how Latinx cultural values impact mental health and how they can be incorporated into evidence-based interventions. Juan began working at El Futuro in 2018 as a clinician and Training Director leading the La Mesita team, which focuses on developing evidence-based professional development opportunities to improve the capacity of North Carolina’s mental health providers to serve the Latinx community.
Jandira received her Master’s degree in Social Work (2019) and Bachelors in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began working at El Futuro in 2019 as a bilingual mental health therapist, then transitioning to School-Based Program Therapist Lead in 2020. Jandira utilizes an integrative approach in her therapeutic treatment to Latinx individuals who experience mental and/or emotional distress since she experienced first-hand the challenges of bi-culturalismo as a first-generation individual. Jandira has the goal of helping Latinx teens, children, and their parents in a clinical setting to be able to work with whole family units.
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Breakout Session Option 4: Healthy Relationships Start with Harmony
Session Description: Harmony SEL is a no-cost research-based social emotional learning program that promotes positive peer relations through lessons and activities that encourage communication, collaboration, and mutual respect. Harmony is a CASEL SELect program, aligned to the five core SEL competencies from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the nation’s top evaluator of SEL evidence-based programs.
Session Time: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Larryelle Phillips (she/her)
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11 AM – 11:30 AM: DEI Watch Party
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11:30 AM – 12 PM: Break/Lunch
12 PM – 1:30 PM: Mainstage Speaker – Danya Perry, Director of Equitable Economic Development at Wake County Economic Development
Presenter Bio: First and foremost – Danya Perry has an intense love affair with CIS, the mission, and its purpose. He truly believes Bill Milliken’s mantra – “Programs don’t change people, relationships do.” Perry joined CIS back in 2006 and has since transitioned to a new role. However, the foundational construct of community has been seared in his soul – thanks to CIS’s insanely optimistic practitioners of hope.
Perry currently serves as the Director, Equitable Economic Development with Wake County Economic Development (WCED) and Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. In this role, Perry supports efforts to ensure inclusive prosperity and an equitable ecosystem. From upward mobility to dismantling systemic racism, Perry seeks to strengthen and re-imagine both private and public infrastructures to support our most marginalized communities.
In his free-time, Perry is trying his best to bring cassette tapes and Starter jackets back. Please follow his movement on MySpace @Ya’ll Too Young For This [dot] com.
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1:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Break
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM: Breakout Sessions
Register for one breakout session for Thursday from 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM below!
Breakout Session Option 1: Stop the Churn! 7+ Ways to Better Use Your Time and Build Impact
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Presenter: Lynne Garrison (she/her)
Presenter Bio: Lynne Garrison, president of Garrison Consulting Group, works with individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies seeking to capitalize on change and opportunity, seeking solutions to succeed and thrive. As a coach and consultant, she works with clients to help them close the gap between where they are and where they aim to be. Services are delivered virtually and in person based on needs. Contact Lynne: lynne@garrisongroup.org; 919.830.9411; garrisongroup.org
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Breakout Session Option 2: Building Developmental Relationships: A Focus on the Grown-ups
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 3 PM
Presenter: Patti Aldaz-Carrasco (she/her)
Presenter Bio: Patti Aldaz-Carrasco has been affiliated with CIS for over 30 years in roles with the national office and CIS of El Paso. In her most recent role, as Principal of Learning and Development for national, she leads the design of learning strategies for quality implementation of the model of integrated student supports. Her passion for educational equity and commitment to professional development guide the creation of the best-in-class learning opportunities and resources used daily by the CIS network. Patti holds Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Breakout Session Option 3: Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Using Data to Inform and Select Practices and Programming
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 3 PM
Presenters: Robert Murphy (he/his) and Elle Essenmacher (she/her)
Presenter Bios: ROBERT MURPHY is the founder of Comprehensive Discipline Solutions with 20 years of experience shaping, informing, and enforcing educational practices to enhance organizational objectives and improve student outcomes. He led the Maryland State DOE school discipline reform, dropout prevention, and alternative program efforts. Robert was instrumental in reducing Maryland suspensions by 50 % and the dropout rate by 20 %. He worked with districts to increase overall graduation rates by 10 % and African American male graduation rates by 12 %. Robert is committed to helping organizations understand how urban trauma impacts the learning process of African American male students.
Elle Essenmacher has decades of experience leading educational initiatives at the state, district, and school levels. Elle served inner city and rural schools and from PK to HS. Her administrative experience is extensive, serving as superintendent, principal, curriculum director, and program coordinator. Elle’s commitment to justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion began with a pre-service work study at the Shiprock Daycare on the Navajo Reservation and continued through her years of service in Pontiac, Michigan schools and beyond. Elle is the Strategic Account Advisor for National Extended Learning Partnerships for Harmony SEL and Inspire Teaching & Learning at National University.
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Breakout Session Option 4: Community Resiliency Model–guiding for resilience
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Presenter: Rachel Galanter (she/they)
Presenter Bio: Rachel (MPH, UNC Chapel Hill) has over 25 years of experience supporting children, youth, and families. She has used Motivational Interviewing and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) on top of evidence-based parenting coaching models to partner with families to help their children thrive. A certified trainer by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and certified CRM teacher, she provides training and coaching to professionals on engagement, cultivating resilience, cultural awareness, cross cultural communication, and implementation of best practices. From being a foster parent for a decade, Rachel added two daughters—and now four grandchildren—to her family.
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2:45 PM – 3:15 PM: DEI Watch Party
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3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Break
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Breakout Sessions
Register for one breakout session for Thursday afternoon from 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM below!
Breakout Session Option 1: Partnerships 101: Conditions For Collective Impact and Success (“Find The Need, Fill The Need”)
Session Description: Participants will receive a road map related to community partnering as a means for creating and ensuring access while addressing the critical needs of students and families.
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Presenter: Will Hawkins
Presenter Bio: Originally from Akron, Ohio, I am a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, and I hold 20+ years of professional experience servicing youth and families through arenas such as education, mental health, substance abuse prevention, and juvenile justice. For the past 3 years, I’ve had the privilege of being a part of a unique partnership between Communities In Schools (CIS), Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, & the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office, which allows me to support our students and families from within the Detention Centers here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Breakout Session Option 2: Part 2 Community Resiliency Model–guiding for resilience
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Presenter: Rachel Galanter
Presenter Bio: Rachel (MPH, UNC Chapel Hill) has over 25 years of experience supporting children, youth, and families. She has used Motivational Interviewing and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) on top of evidence-based parenting coaching models to partner with families to help their children thrive. A certified trainer by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and certified CRM teacher, she provides training and coaching to professionals on engagement, cultivating resilience, cultural awareness, cross cultural communication, and implementation of best practices. From being a foster parent for a decade, Rachel added two daughters—and now four grandchildren—to her family.
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Breakout Session Option 3: Invisible Sentence: Recognizing, Supporting, and Advocating for Children of Incarcerated and Returning Parents
Session Description: On any given day, there are an estimated 2.7 million children in the US with at least one incarcerated parent (16,000+ in NC), with more than 5.2 million children (198,000 in NC) experiencing parental incarceration at some point in their lives. This workshop will focus on what we know about the children, impacts of parental incarceration and re-entry, resource and data gaps, ways to collaborate to better meet their needs, and the importance of gathering insight from the children themselves to ensure their voices are heard. Participants will be encouraged to continue the conversation within their own organizations.
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Presenter: Melissa Radcliff (she/her)
Presenter Bio: Melissa Radcliff has been with Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons since February 2007. Our Children’s Place is a statewide education and advocacy program (based in Durham) focused on community support for children of incarcerated and returning parents. Prior to that she was the Executive Director and a founding staff member of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County (now the Compass Center for Women and Families), the local domestic violence agency serving Orange County, NC. She serves as chair of the Pre-Release Committee for the Orange Correctional Center, a minimum custody men’s prison facility located in Hillsborough, NC.
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Breakout Session Option 4: “Do you see me? Do you know me? Can you help me?”
Presentation Description: Understanding how to re-engage students requires first understanding the definition of student engagement, the benefits, the different type of engagements and what it looks like in the home, school and comunity.
Presentation Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Presenter: Patricia Brinson
Presenter Bio: I am the Youth Success Coach for the Restart to Reentry Program with CISNC. I have over 20 years of experience working with abused and neglected children, court involved adolescents, dual diagnosed(MI/SA)adolescents, chronically homeless families and youths with developmental diagnosis. I enjoy developing liaison relationships with parents, schools and community agencies as well as coordinating activities from many resources for the benefit of the youth served. In my spare time, I like spending time with the family(my husband, our 3 college mini-adults and dog Ziggy). They help balance me.
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Breakout Session Option 5: Supporting LGBTQ Students in the Classroom
Session Description: In this session, join Equality NC in a conversation focused on the intersectional needs of LGBTQ students. Understand the unique needs and barriers faced by LGBTQ youth in school and best practices to support students.
Session Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM
Presenter: Rebby Kern (they/them)
Presenter Bio: Rebby Kern is a nonbinary person of color working to create more inclusive climates for LGBTQ youth and young adults. Rebby currently serves at the Director of Education Policy at Equality NC and they have worked for LGBTQ youth-focused organizations serving youth nationwide and locally across the Carolinas.
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