Senior Director, Change in Mind
Social Current
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Senior Director, Change in Mind Institute
Social Current
Karen Johnson brings knowledge of the advancing science around resilience, brain development, adversity, toxic stress, equity, and trauma-informed approaches to the complex challenges we face. This expertise, coupled with her 30 years of experience in child welfare, behavioral health, and community services, enables her to successfully partner with leaders, staff, community members, and participants across numerous settings to promote individual and organizational resilience.
Senior Director, Change in Mind Institute
Social Current
Karen Johnson brings knowledge of the advancing science around resilience, brain development, adversity, toxic stress, equity, and trauma-informed approaches to the complex challenges we face. This expertise, coupled with her 30 years of experience in child welfare, behavioral health, and community services, enables her to successfully partner with leaders, staff, community members, and participants across numerous settings to promote individual and organizational resilience.
Johnson leads the development of Social Current's Trauma-Informed and Brain Science consulting portfolio, leveraging the latest advances in neurosciences, trauma-informed, and healing-centered approaches across sectors and at the practice, policy, and systems levels. She is passionate about partnering with organizations to strengthen organizational culture and workforce well-being and resilience and understanding and applying learnings around the intersection of brain science and equity lenses to our equity journeys. Johnson oversaw the Texas Change in Mind Learning Collaborative, through which 10 organizations from multiple sectors across Southeast Texas worked to embed brain science and equity principles to improve outcomes for children and families, as well as their organizational cultures and ability to collaborate with partners.
B14 - Transformational Change in Texas: Impacts of the Texas Change in Mind Learning Collaborative
Monday, April 15, 2024
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT