2011 First Born Conference
Promoting Confident & Joyful Parenting

First Born® is a home visitation program that provides first-time parents presence, support, and education to encourage the development of happy, healthy babies, families, and communities. First Born home visiting programs are currently active in the counties of Grant, Rio
Arriba, Santa Fe, Socorro, Los Alamos, Bernalillo, and Valencia.

The 2011 First Born Conference was held on Friday, October 28, 2011 from 8am until 3pm at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort
located at 1300 Tuyuna Trail, Santa Anna Pueblo, NM 87004. This conference brought together First Born staff and people who work with or care about families in our state.

Cost: $90 before Sept 15; $100 Sept 15 or after
(Includes snack, lunch, and CEUs)

About the Keynote Speaker
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is an internationally known trauma worker who has been engaged in this work for 24 years. She has worked locally, nationally and internationally and has been involved in some of our nation’s largest disasters and community crises. Her work has included front-line work with homelessness, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, the sex trade, natural disasters,
environmental destruction, and other acute trauma.

Laura is known as a pioneer in the field of trauma exposure and its toll on those working in trauma related fields. For over a decade she has been a constantly sought after key-note speaker and workshop leader on her theory of trauma stewardship. Trauma stewardship explores how humans are impacted by exposure to the suffering, hardship, crisis and trauma of humans, other living beings, and the planet itself. This impact is held within a larger context of systematic oppression and liberation theory and is addressed from an individual, organizational, systemic and societal based model. She has trained thousands of individuals, organizations and institutions over the years including zookeepers and reconstruction workers in post-Katrina New Orleans, community
organizers and health care providers in Japan, U.S. Air Force Pilots, Canadian firefighters, public school teachers, private practice doctors, leaders in law enforcement, and federal, state and local governments.

Special Luncheon Guest Speakers
Lisa Klein, Executive Director of the National Birth to Five Policy Alliance, spoke about national trends in early child development through her work with the National Birth to Five Policy Alliance, a nonprofit that promotes innovative and successful policies to achieve positive early learning, strong families, and good health for vulnerable children from birth to age five.

Yolanda Berumen-Deines, Cabinet Secretary for the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department