Adolescents: Trauma & Mental Health

Tuesday, March 19 at 4:30 pm

Bond Hall

Swarthmore College

At corner of Chester Road and College Ave

Parking available at Ben West Parking Lot

For questions please email edstudies@swarthmore.edu

Join the Swarthmore College, Department of Educational Studies for a panel discussion with educators, scholars, and therapists about adolescents, trauma & mental health

Panel Flier (PDF)

Panelists

Shana Williams, MHS

Shana Williams is a queer therapist of color who currently is the Lead Therapist at the Attic Youth Center, Philadelphia’s only independent LGBTQ youth center working with LGBTQ youth and families. She is also a therapist at the Morris Home, which is the country’s first transgender and non-binary specific inpatient substance abuse treatment programShana has a background in Community mental health, Substance abuse, workforce development as well as working with children and families around Gender and Sexual identity. Her clinical approach encompasses an Intersectional awareness along with social justice lens. She takes pride in creating visibility as a Queer, Black, Fat, Femme in the community.

Johanna Greeson ‘97

Johanna Greeson, PhD, MSS. MLSP, is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She is passionate about reforming the child welfare system, using research to build better futures for youth who age out of foster care, and realizing the power of connections to caring adults for all vulnerable youth. Dr. Greeson’s published work includes articles on natural mentoring, evidence-based practices for older youth in foster care, including independent living programming, residential group care, and intensive in-home therapy, low-income homeownership, child/adolescent traumatic stress, and domestic minor sex trafficking. She is the developer of Caring Adults ‘R’ Everywhere (C.A.R.E.), a novel, trauma-informed natural mentoring intervention for older youth in foster care, intended to solve the aging out dilemma.

Katrina Clark ‘03

Katrina Clark is in her 14th year of teaching. She has taught in private, charter, and public schools, grades 3rd through 10th. She currently teaches 9th grade at the Workshop School, an interdisciplinary, project-based public school in the School District of Philadelphia. She works actively to improve the learning conditions of her students both within her classroom and through organizing with the Caucus of Working Educators of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.