Keynote Speakers
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Pekitta Tynes has been performing stand-up comedy routines for over 25+ years and has transitioned into a “clean” yet connotational risqué comedian when discussing certain subject matters. Her forte is the impromptu comedian style performing routines off the top of her head by finding comedy in the immediate observation. Her quick wit affords her the opportunity to have a different show for each performance.
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Donna Reed is a sought after Motivational Speaker, Workshop Facilitator & Life Coach with a unique, compelling and humorous way of inspiring her listeners. Her passion is in the field of adoption and foster care, youth entrepreneurial development and hurting women.
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Mike Whitehead is the founder and CEO of the Center for Intentional Leadership. Mike’s firm uses an approach called Intentional Leadership to help individuals, corporate leaders and organizations to create positive, powerful and sustainable change.
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Presenters
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Donna H. Foster, author, trainer and consultant, contracts with agencies and associations throughout the United States. Mrs. Foster has 28 years of experience as a trainer of trainers. She enjoys conducting keynote addresses and workshops. She has authored “Fostering the Sexually Abused Child, My Life’s Book and Burnout Protection Trainer’s Guide and recently, “Shelby and Me: A Life Book Journey”.
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Pat O’Brien knew there was a piece missing from the child welfare puzzle. As a director at a New York City adoption agency in the 1990’s, he saw firsthand that there were too many teens aging out of foster care with goals of Independent Living. ‘It is very difficult to think that a youth somewhere between the ages of 18 and 21 can make it on their own when they’re discharged from foster care to no one but themselves… when the average 22 year old college graduate returns home to his or her parents after he or she receives a four year bachelor’s degree.”
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Stephanie Wolfe is a Licensed Social Worker and Permanency Director for a private, non-profit human services organization. Ms. Wolfe has been involved in child welfare practice in both the public and private sector for the past 16 years, with experience in a number of areas, including adoption, foster care and Family Group Decision Making.
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For more than twenty years Bishop W. C. Martin has served the community of Possum Trot, Texas as pastor of Bennett Chapel. In 1997, he and his wife, Donna, adopted two children and began a miraculous adventure that has become one of the premier adoption stories in America.
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Melissa E. Robinson has a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Relations and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. She has been a master teacher in the public school system, a teacher trainer, reading specialist, and special education teacher.
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Ginger Caldwell is a clinical social worker and child welfare services trainer and curriculum developer for the North Carolina Division of Social Services. She has 18 years of child welfare experience specializing in adoptions, foster home licensing, foster/adoptive parent training, shared parenting, and training child welfare staff.
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Howard Glasser is the founder of Children's Success Foundation and creator of The Nurtured Heart Approach™, which is being used in hundreds of thousands of homes and classrooms around the world.
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