Healing Communities

Bester Community of Hope

Focusing on the principles of unconditional care, this event will demonstrate how communities can use the power of connection and trust to achieve positive shared outcomes and stronger neighborhoods. 
In addition to a panel of regional leaders exploring successes and challenges encountered when responding to community needs, our featured speakers* are:
The Rev. Gregory J. Boyle, S.J. is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, CA.  From 1986 to 1992, Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles, located between two large public housing projects with the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.  He witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during what he has called "the decade of death" that began in the late 1980s.  In the face of law enforcement tactics and criminal justice policies of suppresion and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, Father Boyle and parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at that time:  treat gang members as human beings.  Father Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion.  He is the subject of Academy Award winner Freida Lee Mock's 2012 documentary "G-Dog" and in 2014, the White House named Father Boyle a Champion of Change.
Dr. Robert Anda works in his role as co-founder of ACE Interface to deliver training materials at the state and community level about neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs, resilience and community capacity development.  His dream is to help create a trauma informed nation.  The public health and community wide implications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study including specific examples of how this science impacts the goals and practices in human service systems such as education, justice, health care will be provided.  Self-Healing Communtiies use this science and understanding and compassion that flows from it as a platform to engage the creativity, minds and hearts of all people in the community;  that can lead healing at the individual level and to a culture of change.  These changes unlock the latent potential and creativity in communities that lead to new ways to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of ACEs and reduce exposure to ACEs for the generations to come.
Category I Social Work CEU's provided.
Group rates available for organizations registering ten or more attendees.  Contact Kerry Fair for arrangements.
Questions?  Contact Kerry Fair at kfair@besterhope.org or call 240-513-6370.
 
<H5>*Speakers subject to change without notice.</H5>
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