Schedule

Speaker publications will be available for purchase and speakers will be available for book signing throughout the day Service Fair will be open throughout the day in the Expo Hall

Terie Dresussi-Smith, MA, Ed.: Author and Consultant, Aha Process, Inc.

Terie Dreussi Smith, M.A. Ed. and OCPS II of Greenville, South Carolina has served as Supervisor of Prevention Services at a community alcohol/other drug treatment and prevention organization for over nine years, and was instrumental in the organization's redesign of programs and services for prevention and early intervention clients from generational poverty.

Ms. Dreussi-Smith co-authored Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities with Ruby Payne and Philip DeVol. She is a former public school teacher with years of experience. Terie served as adjunct faculty for several colleges focused on empowering adult students transitioning out poverty. In her recent consultant work as a grant writer and social program manager for youthbased service agencies, community coalitions and schools, Terie assisted communities to embed Bridges Out of Poverty concepts in redesigning policies and services for families and youth in generational poverty.

 

Terie has been an author/consultant with aha! Process, Inc. since 1997.