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The success of students in the education system is highly influenced by early childhood factors. The most prominent factor that plays a role in the success of students in the first few years of their life is kindergarten readiness. Kindergarten readiness refers to the knowledge that a child obtains both in the home and in early child hood centers that prepares them for success in kindergarten and furthermore in the education system. High levels of success in kindergarten is frequently correlated with parental involvement in the home and attendance at early childhood pre k centers. Historically

Sharon Cheng has over 19 years of experience as a Therapeutic Consultant/ Behavior Specialist, Positive Behavior Support Professional, Service Coordinator and Special Needs Program coordinator. She is currently the Director of the Special Needs Caring Center for Light and Salt Association in Houston, TX. She brings tremendous experience and skills around educational and adaptive living strategies, program development, client support services, and coalition building. Haitrieu Nguyen is the founder of TÂM: Talk and Mend. TÂM is a grass-roots movement to talk and mend the stigma surrounding

As we collectively seek to address the overlapping health, economic, and racial justice crises made more evident by COVID-19, social connections can be a powerful tool for healing and rebuilding. We must address the rising rates of social isolation which have profound impacts on health and well-being. These impacts are felt most acutely by people who are marginalized because of their race, income, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Isolation is also exacerbated by commonly-experienced disruptive events such as changes in a person’s family, home, or employment status. Social

"There can be no real change without deep, authentic relationships." How do you tear down oppressive systems, raise communities out of poverty, and solidify real, lifelong change? It starts with relationships. Sounds easy right? The reality is that relationships are complex, heartbreaking, messy, beautiful and most of all key to creating long lasting change. Come and hear from the students and coordinators on The Future Is Us Team on how we use relationships to empower students to build up their community and dismantle the school to prison pipeline. You'll hear real life stories from student

This workshop will provide community members and professionals working with youth tools to increase mental wellbeing using Expressive Arts and other grounding techniques. During this session community members and professionals will gain knowledge about ACEs and participate in grounding practices and various activities to support ACE prevention and social/emotional recovery for youth. This workshop is designed to be interactive and transferable to a variety of communal context.