Jennifer Wheelehon

Jennifer Wheelehon, Board Member

Jennifer Wheelehon has over  20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, relationship building, event planning and fundraising.  She has spent much of her career connecting individuals and businesses with organizations […]

Meet Julie Michelle

Julie Michelle Henderson

Julie Michelle Henderson is the Trauma-Sensitive Schools Coordinator at ATN and attends the University of Texas at Arlington where she is earning a Masters Degree in Social Work. She is the […]

Kirsten Murdoch

Kirsten Murdoch Resource Coordinator

Kirsten is a mother to 4 kids (2 adopted and 2 bio). Kirsten started her career over 20 years ago working for nonprofits and providing support to individuals with special needs. […]

Meet Ralph

Ralph Rothacker

Ralph is a recently retired life-long educator who, over his 42- year career, taught at all levels of public school.  His more than two decades as an administrator culminated in […]

Meet Temeka

Temeka Parker, LCSW-C, LICSW joins ATN Board of Directors

Temeka is a licensed clinical social worker with over 16 years of experience in child welfare, with expertise in schools, hospitals and community-based settings.  She is also certified as an […]

Meet Sandy

Sandy Wirtel

Sandy Wirtel is an attorney in Kansas City, Missouri whose practice focuses on children in the law. She represents both children and parents in child abuse & neglect, termination of […]

Ginger Healy

Ginger Healy

Ginger Healy MSW, LCSW started her career as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international […]

Adam Pertman

Adam Pertman

Mr. Pertman is president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP) a national non-profit focused on shifting child welfare policy and practice from the traditional “child placement” model to a “family success” […]

Ross Greene

Ross Greene, Ph.D.

Dr. Greene is the originator of the innovative, research-based approach now known as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), as described in his influential books The Explosive Child and Lost at […]

Meet Carl Young

Carl Young

Carl and his wife are parents of five, three who have special needs of some kind. Their youngest was adopted at 18 months and has been impacted by early trauma […]