Hope Dealer Wanted: Every Child Has a Story, Every Story Deserves Heroes

National Speaker: Hasan Davis

Saturday, October 17, 2020
Seminar 9am - 11am
Workshop 11:30am - 12:30pm

Hasan shares his inspirational journey from his childhood filled with love but also many challenges navigating education, justice, and social service systems. Hasan will also share the simple strategies his personal champions employed to help him complete the “JD shuffle” and go from Hasan Davis Juvenile Delinquent to Hasan Davis Juris Doctor.

This presentation and workshop is free and open to all parents, family members, caregivers, professionals and community members impacting kids.

Presentation Objectives:

A better understanding of the cradle to prison pipeline
Building the economic argument for investing more federal dollars in early childhood vs. Justice/Corrections programming
A framework for exploring the impact of Social Emotional engagement strategies to mitigated the impact of early childhood trauma (and Drama) on Early Brain Development
The impact that one caring adult can have on the lifelong trajectory of a child
Pages from a “Hope Dealer Handbook” inspirational lessons from Hasan’s Hope Dealers that now guide his own work

Workshop Objectives:

Experience and learn the process and basic structure of Bio Poem by crafting their own
After completing your own Bio Poem we will explore how variations of this tool can be employed to engage pre-writing children and as an exercise with parents/guardians.
Review and reflect on the Bio Poem exercise as an active assessment instrumented
Explore how the Bio Poem process can be used to support educational planning, identify strengths and communicate the needs of children.

Visit www.asccaz.org/uplearning for details and to register for this free training and workshop.