The Lionheart Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to creating high impact, evidence based social emotional learning curricula to empower trauma-impacted populations, including prisoners, youth at risk, teenage parents, and direct care staff. self-described.

The Lionheart Foundation

The Lionheart Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to creating high impact, evidence-based, social emotional learning curricula to empower trauma-impacted populations such as prisoners, youth at risk, and teenage parents. It has been integrated into thousands of prisons, juvenile institutions, social service agencies, schools, and community programs throughout the United States.

The Lionheart Foundation | 369 followers on LinkedIn. Empowering incarcerated adults, youth at-risk, &amp; adolescent parents through transformative social emotional programming. | Changing Lives — Building Futures.

Empowering trauma-impacted populations through transformative social and emotional programming.

The Lionheart Foundation, established in 1992, is a 501[c][3] nonprofit organization dedicated to providing social and emotional learning programs to incarcerated adults, highly at-risk youth, and teen parents in order to significantly alter their life course.

Director of Partnerships at The Lionheart Foundation

Amanda Casarjian

Chief Operating Officer at The Lionheart Foundation

Judith Perry

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Timucin Uygungil

Director of the National Prison Project at The Lionheart Foundation

Robin Casarjian

Join us for our next EQ2 webinar on December 4th at 2 PM ET! The second installment in our EQ2 Community Conversations webinar series will feature Melody Smith and Brooke Holloway of Canopy Children's Solutions . They’ll delve into best practices in EQ2 implementation, including planning & rollout, navigating staffing challenges, and general tips for any agency thinking about using EQ2. Register now → https://hubs.la/Q02WPBX20 #EQ2webinar #adultSEL #EQ #professionaldevelopment #emotionalintelligence #workforcedevelopment #directcarestaff

We’re getting ready for Association of Children's Residential & Community Services (ACRC) ’s 4th Annual International Direct Care Summit, where our Co-Clinical Director Jess Linick, PhD, will help you sharpen your self- and co-regulation skills in her talk. Come see “From the Ground Up: Self- and Co-Regulation Skills to Support Youth” and say hello! #ACRCconference #Togetherthevoice #youthjustice

We’ll be in Dublin for the 2024 Unity Conference! Our team will be giving two impactful presentations on supporting and supervising direct care staff. Our Co-Clinical Director Jess Linick, PhD will partner with Danny Pectol of ACH Child & Family Services for a talk on “Accelerating the Trauma Informed Care Learning Curve with the Modern Workforce: A Leadership Framework.” For an encore, Jess and our other Co-Clinical Director, Beth Casarjian, PhD, will present “More Than a Deep Breath: How Increasing Our Own Self-Regulation Skills Magnifies the Impact of Trauma-Informed Care.” #UnityConference2024

Thank you to the Texas Alliance of Child & Family Services for hosting a superb annual TCCAC! Check out a couple of pictures of our booth and of Dr. Jessica Linick and Danny Pectol of ACH Child & Family Services presenting on trauma-informed care in supervision. Their talk covered several crucial strategies for success in supporting direct care staff, including the three E's of effective supervision.

We are so proud to see our programs impacting youth in real time! Thanks for sharing, Marin County Probation Department .

We can't wait for the Texas Alliance of Child & Family Services annual conference next week! See our Co-Clinical Director Jessica Linick, PhD co-present with Danny Pectol of ACH Child & Family Services on EQ2, "Turbocharging Trauma-Informed Care in the Modern Workforce: A New Leadership Framework," at the Texas Child Care Administrators Conference! #BreakthroughToExcellence #TCCAC24

We're looking forward to attending the 2024 NATSAP Annual Conference in a couple of weeks. Our Co-Clinical Director, Bethany Casarjian will be presenting "Finally, Something That's for Me: A Staff-Focused Intervention to Increase Self-Regulation and Amplify Trauma-Informed Care" – be sure to check it out!

We're excited to announce that the Child Welfare League of America recently featured an article on EQ2 in the "Spotlight On" section of their last issue. The article, titled Helping Youth and Direct Care Staff Heal with EQ2, co-written by Lionheart's Co-Clinical Director Bethany Casarjian and Elizabeth Wilcox , emphasizes the need to provide trauma-informed care to direct care staff serving trauma-impacted youth. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/e6qyHbGn

The Lionheart Team attended the American Correctional Association 154th Congress of Correction in Nashville last month and had a blast! It was a real pleasure to see our partners at Edovo , Unlocked Labs , Orijin™ , and more.

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