Dr. Davis is an Associate Professor of Practice at Portland State University’s School of Social Work and a licensed clinical social worker. She is Director of Trauma Informed Oregon, a program primarily funded by the Oregon Health Authority, to advance trauma informed care throughout organizations and systems through training, consultation, and implementation resources. Dr. Davis teaches and lectures on implementing trauma informed care and trauma specific services. Her current interests include measuring change when organizations and systems implement the principles of trauma informed care, the impact of toxic stress on the workforce and intersectionality between equity work, resilience, and trauma informed care.
Isha-Charlie McNeely is currently the Training Coordinator for Trauma Informed Oregon and leads the young adult Oregon Trauma Advocacy Coalition. She coordinates and manages all incoming training request and consultation needs, sits on various equity and foster care advocacy boards while managing a few equity and inclusion projects throughout each yearly contract. Charlie initially came to PSU as a student receiving dual undergrad degrees in School Health Education and Community Health and in 2020 earned her graduate degree in Human Services with a Child and Family Focus. Charlie believes that the work is most effective and impactful when informed and led by the communities they are meant to serve. She hopes to continue her career doing work that uplifts the communities she belongs to and to be an inspiration to young black girls.
We will be recording general session presentations and they will be available after the Institute. For this reason we are asking participants to sign a Photo/Video release. If you do not agree to the release, it is fine to attend the Summer Institute with your Video cam turned off during the general session presentations (we are NOT recording conversations in Zoom break out rooms)