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Brooks, Estelle, MSW

Estelle Brooks is a certified fitness instructor with a master’s degree in Social Work. Estelle has over 35 years of experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Her professional training as a social worker has allowed her to correlate the importance of mental health status. She is an energetic 69-year-old that finds joy in assisting people individually or in large group settings to achieve optimal health and fitness and life-changing goals. She encourages and supports people to take care of themselves spiritually, mentally, physically, and creatively.

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YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING “Balancing Your Life”

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Wilson, Amy, PsyD

Dr. Amy Wilson is a licensed psychologist who’s conducted psychological evaluations with children for over ten years in the St. Louis community. Dr. Wilson is certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and specializes in evaluating foster and adopted children who’ve experienced trauma. For evaluations, Dr. Wilson takes a collaborative approach in working with caregivers and providers to conceptualize how early trauma has impacted a child’s social, emotional and behavioral development. Furthermore, Dr. Wilson has interests in enhancing support for traumatized children in schools, working with caregivers to better understand their child, and program development.

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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Psychological Evaluations

Using “Dosing” as a Model for Self-Care: Clinicians and Clients Alike

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Scaccia, Jamie, PsyD

Dr. Jamie Scaccia is a clinical psychologist from St. Louis, Missouri. Her career has been dedicated to working with families with a history of trauma. She is trained in the Neursosequential Model of Therapeutics framework, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and EMDR, amongst other trauma focused approaches. Dr. Scaccia also enjoys training and supervision, community engagement, and advocacy.

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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Psychological Evaluations

Using “Dosing” as a Model for Self-Care: Clinicians and Clients Alike

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Zwolak, Steve, MEd

Steve Zwolak is the CEO of LUME Institute and Executive Director of University City Children’s Center. He has over 50 years’ experience as a student of children, tirelessly advancing and advocating for early childhood. Steve’s years as a classroom teacher and leader in the field of early childhood enabled him to build the LUME Approach to education, which focuses on Emotionally Responsive Teaching – braiding early childhood and mental health principles. The Approach emphasizes that the emotional development and wellness of teachers, children and families are collectively critical to a child’s future life script In addition, there is preliminary evidence that his work has the potential in closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap. We know the foundation for diversity, inclusion and equity are embedded the emotional development of children in the first three years of life. Steve teaches teachers that there is major watershed from birth through 5 years of age, where children must begin to internalize and then socialize their understanding of diversity, inclusion and equity to make it an embedded way of life.

Steve believes that is children are physically safe, they will feel emotionally safe, and then they can take social risk as they feel socially safe and finally the will confident in their own competencies to take academic risk. “All learning happens in relationships”.

Steve has been recognized locally, regionally and nationally for his work with children, families and educators.

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Understanding My Normal vs Their Normal