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Lunch & Learn | StrongBrains Coaching: Using Brain Science to Coach Kids for a Lifetime of Good Choices

These monthly Lunch & Learns are free and open to the public. Lunch & Learns are intended to be a casual environment for knowledge sharing, peer learning, and interactive discussion. We encourage you ready to engage!

Join us for the August edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch & Learn Series with Rev. Dr. Clifford Barnett, Carey Sipp, Alison Wine, and Kelly Percell as they discuss how the Community Resiliency Model helps all regulate to win -- on and off the field.

The Rev. Dr. Clifford Barnett is a pastor, city council member and former coach. Barnett became a certified Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® trainer in 2018. Since that time he has provided a number of CRM trainings for families, faith based groups, schools, and many others.

Carey Sipp works as a community facilitator for PACEs Connection -- formerly ACEs Connection. In this role she coaches community-based resiliency initiatives in 11 Southeastern states, supporting grassroots efforts to prevent and heal trauma, and create and build on positive childhood experiences (PCEs) -- such as sports and the arts -- that lead to individual, family, and community strength and resilience.

Allison Wine is a Behavior Specialist for New Hanover County’s Early Childhood Education Program in Wilmington, NC. Alison was trained in the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® in January 2019 in Wilmington and has worked with fellow CRM® trainers to provide trainings for over 1,000 people locally and globally.

Kelly Purcell is a certified Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® trainer. Kelly has shared the CRM® model with more than 1,000 people from around the country, working in a variety of professions including webinars for PACEs Connection and Darkness to Light Annual Conference.