May We Suggest for…Special Education Professionals #TSS2024ATN
There’s something for everyone at the 7th annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference. Here are some workshops that Special Education Professionals may find important: Academy Day: AD1A – Light Up the Learning Brain, Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH AD2B – Neuroscience-Aligned Evaluation of Student Behavior: Nurturing Neurodiversity and Trauma-Informed Insights, Connie Persike, S., CCC/SLP In-Person Conference: 1B – […]
May We Suggest for…Parent Advocates & Community Leaders #TSS2024ATN
There’s So Much to Choose From at the 2024 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference! Parent Advocates & Community Leaders may be especially interested i these sessions: Academy Day: AD1A – Light Up the Learning Brain, Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH OR AD1D – Poverty, Toxic Stress and Resilience, Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz AD2D – The Inner Landscape: Developing Resilience and […]
May We Suggest for…Counselors & Social Workers #TSS2024ATN
There’s So Much to Choose From at the 2024 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference. Here are some workshops Counselors and Social Workers may find particularly interesting: Academy Day: AD1C – Introduction to Trauma-Informed Restorative Justice and Circle Practice, Joe Brummer OR AD1D – Poverty, Toxic Stress and Resilience, Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz AD2C – Reframing Behavior: Understanding the […]
May We Suggest For…1st Time Attendees #TSS2024ATN
There’s So Much to Choose From at the 2024 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference. If this is your 1st TSS Conference…here are some workshops we suggest: Academy Day: AD1A – Light Up the Learning Brain, Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH AD2C – Reframing Behavior: Understanding the Neuroscience of Positive Support, Susan Driscoll & Guy Stephens In-Person Conference: 2F […]
May We Suggest For…School Leaders #TSS2024ATN
There’s So Much to Choose From at the 2024 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference. Here are some workshops School Leaders might find enlightening: Session 1E – A step by step plan for moving your school or entire division to becoming a Trauma-Informed School or Division, Darlene Keener, M.Ed. – Session 2 (Main Stage) – Everyone Starts […]
Business as Usual…Except more Sorrow and Resolve
For nearly 30 years ATN has been in the trenches with children significantly impacted by early childhood trauma…now understood as developmental trauma, attachment trauma, relationship trauma. Our roots are working with children who struggled due to very early abuse, neglect, maltreatment – including abandonment, witnessing violence and horrific mistreatment. But the truth is, many children […]
Let’s Meet…
Click on their pictures/names below to meet a new child each week in June. Donate Now Help provide more healing resources to children in their families, schools and communities. Join us throughout June to hear the stories of these children, inspired by the thousands of children ATN has served since 1995. Now more than ever, […]
On Being an Anti-Racist White Mom
The Atlanta shootings It’s been a few weeks since the news broke about the shootings at 3 spas in the Atlanta area. Watching this unfold on my TV, sitting in my Atlanta suburban home, I was confounded. Now…so many days later…I still am. Was the shooter racist? Was this a hate crime? The news media […]
4 Sparking weeks for ATN!
ATN is the chosen non-profit to help celebrate “4 weeks of Sparking” with Epiphany, the creative consultants who have long helped with ATN’s website, social media, branding and other communications needs. Let’s Spark An Epiphany! 50 Weeks of Sparking is a year-long campaign to celebrate Epiphany’s CEO, Christa Nelson, and her 50th birthday. Because Christa works […]
Listen to Your NonProfit Life Podcast
Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director was the featured non-profit leader of Episode 9 of Your NonProfit Life. Listen in to hear how ATN has survived, evolved, and ultimately thrived these past 25 years, and why Julie takes this “work of the heart” so seriously. My guest’s life changed completely when she and her husband, already […]