Intensive Session: Dismantling Teaching Our Children to Kill: Continuing Traumatic Stress Disorder Because There Is No Post: Restoring Sanctuary

SESSION INFO

Sunday, March 1, 2026
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Intensive

Understanding the connection between adverse childhood experienes (ACE) and the pathology of intentional interpersonal firearm injuries and homicides affecting children, young people and families in america. The session will address building long lasting compenhisive community wide collaborations and strategy of collective efficacy through a trauma informed lens. The session is a didactic interactive paraidigm building addressing safety, emotions/loss, and future (SELF); taking a deep dive into mass shootings in schools, homes, and community; and the missing protective factors and preventive measures engaging attendees in model conceptulazation that can serve to dismantle the pandemic of violence in America.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Mr LeeRoy Jordan
Founder,


LeeRoy Jordan has a body of work that spans more than four decades and counting. He has served in roles across the spectrum of working with people as a counselor, court liaison, case manager, criminal justice advocate, supervising criminal justice advocate, assistant director of court programs, youth services director, assistant director, program director of several community based organizations in Charlotte, NC., Philadelphia, PA and New York City, New York. He has worked extensively with justice impacted populations inclusive of juvenile delinquents, pre-trial felony defendants, parole and probation violators, individuals experiencing co-occurring disorders.(substance use/mental health), unhoused populations, jail and prison inmates. He has advocated for the restoration of parole supervision for technical parole violators and alternative to incarceration. he is a certified gang specialist; working with youth gang members for nearly 20 years, he has trained and been certified as violence prevention specialist/educator and a certified chemical dependency/addiction professional emeritus Mr. Jordan has been a presenter at local, state, national and international conferences. Over a 30 year period he worked for three of the largest agencies in the nation, Center for Alternative Sentencing Services, The Osborne Association and the DOE Fund, Inc., respectively, working with justice impacted populations. He has spent the past four years serving as the program director/senior consultant for City Startup Labs' Restorative Pathways providing reentry services to returning citizens.