Date: June 15, 2021 – June 17, 2021
Time: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Price: Free

The Advisory Committee has teamed up to sponsor the Culturally Specific Collaborative Virtual Convening on June 15, 16 and 17, from 9 am to 12 pm : “Our journey to heal: Transformative Practices in Our Communities” An opportunity to engage in interactive activities, networking, joining affinity groups, and celebrating our communities! Let’s decolonizing dominant narratives to facilitate intergenerational healing, and to reclaim our identities and power. When we heal, our ancestors heal, our community heal.

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Presenter(s):

Toni Schrader
Toni M. Schrader is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselorand the Director of Counseling at House of Ruth in Claremont. House of Ruth is a non-profit domestic violence agency whose mission centers around the prevention of domestic violence and ensuring the safety of those impacted by it. As the Director of Counseling, Toni oversees the metal health services of children and adults impacted by domestic violence and child abuse/trauma. Toni has been doing domestic violence work for most of her career centering around supporting survivors and working to provide support and psychoeducation to those who cause harm. She has worked as a Partner Abuse Intervention group facilitator, client advocate, therapist, and case manager. Toni is very passionate about the field of domestic violence and mental health and hopes to continue to make a difference in the lives of children and families experiencing domestic violence, community violence, and psychological trauma as well as supporting historically marginalized groups through culturally responsive services and interventions. Toni serves as a core member of the Culturally Specific Collaborative.

Natchawi Wadman
Natchawi or Nat Wadman, MSW is Community Program Director for CPAF, previously worked in international development sector for over a decade in different capacity and wide range of work developed organizational youth engagement strategy and its operational model in Asia Pacific and Africa supporting meaningful youth engagement, youth empowerment and youth mobilization within the program and beyond to become leaders of their own development, their communities and society at large. She also supported the country team in Asia Pacific to develop effective program from the design to the learning and evaluation in Health, Education and Livelihood with people-centered approach where the community is at the heart of the program development and evaluation. Nat also led the Life Skill Development program in Thailand using play-based and activity-based learning to enhance life skill development for youth in conflict with law in juvenile detention centers and school-based rural children and youth across Thailand resulting in the new reform of life skill learning in Thai education system and restorative justice practices in Juvenile Justice system in Thailand.

Natalie Calcutta
Nat Calcutta is a Children’s Advocate at Catalyst Domestic Violence Services in Butte County. She works to help support children and their parents as they seek safety in the agency’s confidential shelter and transitional housing. In facilitating family meetings and positive childhood experience opportunities, providing parental support and resources Nat is committed to helping survivors and their children find stability and healing. She also serves as a core member of the Culturally Specific Collaborative.

Questions? Please contact Mercedes Tune, mercedes@cpedv.org

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