Advancing Trauma and Resiliency Informed Practices with Women on Community Supervision

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Tiffany is the Peer Support Department Manager at The Pathfinder Network. Tiffany, who identifies as a person in recovery, has dedicated the last 5 years of her work life to advocating for the expansion of peer workers, not only in Jackson County where she currently resides but all across the state of Oregon. Tiffany is a compassionate, humble leader and hardworking advocate for system impacted individuals and their families across our state. She has worked at all levels of the recovery field, from walk-in clinics at treatment centers to the high levels of peer leadership in a variety of agencies. This experience gives her a unique perspective and qualification to advocate for peers and peer support at all levels. Tiffany is also a deeply skilled trainer and presenter, is a certified Lead Trainer in the curriculum Creating Regulation and Resilience Trainer (CR/2™), and creates powerful and authentic spaces where staff can engage in deep learning and skills practice as they develop their strengths and skills.

Benedict is a psychologist and public health practitioner with a subspecialty in the neurophysiology and ecology of trauma and resilience. The Executive Director of CORE Associates, she has 20+ years supporting system and agency level healing, growth, and transformation by promoting evidence-based and innovative approaches with women and girls, amplifying lived experience, and promoting inclusive and intersectional frameworks. Benedict has worked across the U.S. to promote gender responsive, culturally attuned and trauma-informed care, has served as an architect and core faculty for various national initiatives, and has authored and co-authored impactful publications, models, and staff training curricula, including NIC’s Supervision Agency Gender-Responsive Evaluation (SAGE), and the widely implemented trauma-informed staff communication model Creating Regulation and Resilience (CR/2™). Benedict is co-founder of the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI), a “think and do tank” building transformational justice across sectors with the goal of ending women’s mass incarceration, co-author of WJI’s groundbreaking report “Redefining the Narrative,” and co-creator of the Women’s Justice Pathways Model (WJP©) and other tools designed to support dynamic, cross-sector work. CORE and the WJI’s work continues to inform efforts to improve justice and behavioral health with women and communities, and has been featured at various state, national, and international conferences.

Leticia is the Executive Director of The Pathfinder Network, an Oregon-based nonprofit that provides justice system-impacted individuals and families the tools and support they need to be safe and thrive in our communities. She partners with team members to provide leadership, vision, community, and support to the organization to ensure the greatest impact with the communities they serve. She has worked in schools, prisons, community corrections and in community-based service settings leading and implementing change and innovation. At TPN, Leticia has successfully conceptualized, developed and implemented numerous innovative programs, curricula and training that is responsive to emergent needs in the field and is a driving force in the agency’s diversity, equity, inclusion and justice efforts. She is a skilled leader, practitioner, developer, trainer and evaluator of evidence-based programs and practices. Leticia leads powerful training and dynamic presentations across the country to various audiences that provide attendees with opportunities to broaden their skills and awareness. She is known for her enthusiastic and engaging leadership style, and vision for lifelong learning and guiding individuals, organizations, and systems through change.

Colette is an organizer, leader, student, mother, and grandmother. She is the Director of the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI) Reclamation Project, the first initiative of its kind to be led by-and-for system-impacted women. Colette worked to design and launch the Reclamation Center in the Pilsen Arts Corridor of Chicago, which serves as the Project’s home for arts and advocacy, mutual support, healing and connection, community building and leadership development among women with lived experience. She engages women impacted by the criminal legal system to become agents of change and create solutions to end women’s mass incarceration. She speaks on topics ranging from the reunification of children and mothers, reproductive justice, mental health care, the need for increased programming in prisons, and barriers to employment for people with criminal records. She also provides expert testimony before legislative committees and has received several awards for her leadership, including Claim’s JoAnn Archibald award (2013), the Jane Adams Center for Social Policy and Research Community Leadership Award (2015), Safer Foundation’s Carre Visionary Award (2018) and the Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) 2020 Impact award for her dedication to improving the lives of women and girls in the Chicago area.