About This Session

Learn how to create safe, connected environments where kids not only learn but also flourish.

This session will help attendees This interactive breakout will allow attendees to join in brainstorming better ways to connect with and support students and families that they’ve been entrusted with. Through this session, attendees will learn how the effects of trauma can be minimized, how students can be engaged and ready to learn, and how educators can reduce burnout and the consistent need for administrative intervention.

"Excellent Content. Even as a non-educator, this was helpful as someone who often works alongside educators to provide services for struggling students."

- 2023 Lost Sparrows Trauma Conference Attendee

About Your Instructor

Corletta has earned an Ed.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Converse University. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that has spent the last 13 years serving as a School Mental Health Clinician in the largest school district in South Carolina. As a Chief on the School Mental Health Team, Corletta values her role in enriching clinicians and investing in school partnerships. She has presented at the Greenville County School Conference on Recognizing At-Risk Students and co-created mental health literacy lessons taught to all Greenville County School District high school students. Corletta would say that God has entrusted her with students and families that seek connection and understanding from a trusted adult. Though the diagnosis of her students vary, one thing remains the same; her students are valued and loved through the therapeutic connection that she provides. In addition to her professional career, she and her husband, Jay, are Sunday school teachers to some pretty awesome second graders. Corletta and Jay have four children of their own, three of which they had the privilege of adopting during their 12 years as foster parents. In her free time she enjoys working out, reading, and playing with her two Great Danes, Cruise and Zane!

Corletta Brown

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Foster Parent

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