Keynotes & panels
Bring practitioner and lived perspectives into a professional conversation.
Training & Speaking
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Workshops, speaking, and facilitated conversations shaped around your audience and the questions you need to explore.
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Interactive workshops
Help staff and leaders reflect on practice and work through an application.
Facilitation
Give stakeholder discussions, retreats, and planning sessions a clear structure.
Available in English or Spanish, virtually or in person. We agree on the format, materials, and scope together.
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Open a topic to see its audience and learning objectives. The session is then tailored to your context.
Father & Male Caregiver Engagement
- Audience
- Family-support, health, education, child-support, court, and community professionals; fatherhood and Head Start teams.
- Challenge
- Eligibility and attendance do not necessarily mean fathers experience meaningful engagement.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish attendance from meaningful engagement.
- Identify barriers fathers and male caregivers encounter.
- Develop questions for improving day-to-day staff practice.
Practical application: Use an engagement review to examine outreach, communication, and support for fathers navigating family systems.
From Parent Participation to Meaningful Partnership
- Audience
- Program leaders, parent engagement staff, parent partners, and governance bodies.
- Challenge
- Parent input is collected without a clear connection to decisions.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish participation, leadership, and partnership.
- Identify decision points where parents can influence practice.
- Define supports for participation and a clear feedback process.
Practical application: Map one organizational decision and identify how parents can help shape and review it.
Lived Expertise in Organizational Decisions
- Audience
- Agency leaders, advisory groups, practitioners, and community stakeholders.
- Challenge
- Lived perspectives are invited without a defined role in shaping organizational choices.
Learning objectives
- Identify meaningful roles for lived expertise.
- Examine barriers to participation and influence.
- Develop a process that explains how input is used.
Practical application: Review an advisory or planning structure for clarity of roles, participation supports, and influence.
Fatherhood Engagement as Upstream Prevention
- Audience
- Prevention, child welfare, early childhood, and family-support professionals.
- Challenge
- Father engagement is treated separately from prevention and family-strengthening work.
Learning objectives
- Explore connections between father engagement and family support.
- Identify opportunities to include fathers earlier in prevention practice.
- Distinguish practice-informed ideas and societal cost estimates from demonstrated program outcomes.
Practical application: Connect father engagement priorities to the organization’s existing prevention and family-support strategy.
Welcoming Organizational Culture & Staff Practice
- Audience
- Frontline teams, supervisors, managers, and organizational learning leaders.
- Challenge
- An intention to welcome fathers does not always appear in daily interactions or organizational environments.
Learning objectives
- Recognize signals in language, communications, and environments.
- Include fathers’ perspectives when reviewing practice.
- Identify a practical change the team can implement and review.
Practical application: Examine an intake interaction, communication, or service environment and define a change to test.
Cross-Sector Collaboration & Systems Improvement
- Audience
- Coalitions, public agencies, community partners, and interdisciplinary project teams.
- Challenge
- Different institutional responsibilities make shared work difficult to coordinate.
Learning objectives
- Map shared priorities and distinct responsibilities.
- Include leadership, frontline, and lived perspectives.
- Clarify next steps, implementation milestones, and review methods.
Practical application: Develop a shared agenda and clarify how partners will contribute to, document, and review the work.
Selected Learning Contributions
Child-Support Professional Learning
Presentations for the annual New Jersey Child Support Training Institute and the Vicinage I local training program.
Annual Institute · Vicinage I TrainingSpanish-Language Governance Training
A published introduction to Head Start parent committees and Policy Council governance, offered through the Institute for Childhood Preparedness.
View the Published CourseFathers’ Mental Health & Prevention
“Centering Fathers’ Mental Health as a Core Prevention Strategy,” Social Current, February 25, 2026.
Watch the Recorded Webinar · Official Session Listing
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