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Tidepool Communications is a group of presenters working to bring focus to topics that don’t get a lot of air-time. These projects are those pertaining to PTSD and traumatic brain injury. We emphasize EI topics, trauma informed care, trauma informed education. If you have an interest in bringing some of these topics or any of these topics to your place of business, we inform, educate, and empower groups/organizations/faculty with training and insight.
OUR priNcipal speaker
Nancy mullen
msw
Nancy Mullen is a sought-after public speaker on topics such as LGBT Youth, Adolescent Development, and Current Trends in Working with LGBT Youth.
Equally passionate about her avocation, Nancy is ten credits away from her associate’s degree in Pastry Arts. Never one to do things the easy way, she thought it very important to pursue her master’s degree first so she could later get her associate’s degree in something completely unrelated to what she does for a living. The Urban Tidepool blog is the intersection of a career in human services, a chance to dabble in the culinary world and the experience of writing and publishing her first book. Most of the time, she can even remember to take off her chef’s hat when they sit down to write!
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OUR SPEAKER COLLECTIVE
Salimah Turner
LCSW
Salimah N. Turner (she/her) is a Black Therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) specializing in individual, family and group therapy. Salimah is skilled in working with adolescents, adults and families. She has provided therapy in a variety of settings and currently works within a private practice setting. Salimah is also a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and assists with breast /chest /body feeding and other lactation concerns that impact mental health.
Salimah worked as an engineer in corporate spaces for eight years before deciding to pursue her passion for mental health. She appreciates mental health and has committed herself to helping to erase the negative stigma associated with therapy one person at a time. Salimah enjoys reading books, motherhood and spending quality time with her daughter.
Emma Vosicky
JD
Emma Vosicky is the Executive Director of GenderNexus, a social services agency, serving all of Indiana, whose mission is to empower gender-diverse people and their loved ones to lead healthy, authentic, and joyful lives. GenderNexus offers a range of services, supports, resources, and community, designed to tackle the barriers gender-diverse people systematically face.
Emma brings the skills she developed, from years of work as a business litigation attorney, into her current work and interactions. Most importantly, as a transwoman who grew up in a time when there were no support services and negligible language to describe her life experience, she is driven by a desire to honor the legacy of previous generations and to pay it forward.
Emma’s LGBTQ+ advocacy began in 2006 and has included education, training, and fundraising with Youth Outlook, working with Transformative Justice Law Project’s name change initiative, and serving Equality Illinois as a CAG member and a Project Manager for its Boards & Commissions Project. Emma is also a published writer, storyteller, and public speaker.
Kimberly Frank
BSW
For over the past 15 years Kim Frank has worked with Youth Outlook supporting LGBTQ youth as a Program Coordinator, Youth Leadership Trainer and community educator stemmimng from her passion for youth work and religious exploration. With over 20 years experience as a high school youth group adviser in her Unitarian Universalist church, Kim was Chair of the MidAmerica Youth Advisor Network, where she trained adult advisors on working with youth in Chicago and Wisconsin.
Kim is also Chief of Staff at Humboldt Park Health, a safety-net hospital that provides equitable care in the HP community and in the Chicagoland area with their Ambulatory Care program. Kim has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Northeastern University.