January 22, 2026
Save the Date!
- Location: Goodwill Opportunity Campus, 5301 Wilkinson Blvd.
- Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Cost: Free of charge (Parking and lunch are included)
- Attendees: Individuals who work directly with the public (front-line staff) in organizations working with the unhoused or housing-vulnerable, and adjacent organizations
- Theme: Small Shifts Across Your Day, Big Change Across Your Life
- Agenda:
9:00 Registration/Breakfast
9:30 Wake-up Workshop: Welcome/Introduction – Steven Rogelberg
9:45 Pre-Day Workshop: Appreciation and Connection – Herrison Chicas
10:30 Mid-Day Workshop: Teamwork and Communication
12:15 Lunch
1:00 Post-Day Workshop: Detaching from Work – TBD
1:30 Growth Activity – Jay Ward
2:30 Sleep Workshop – Kristin Daley
3:00 Closing/Wrap-up
Speakers:
Junious ‘Jay’ Ward is an Emmy nominated poet and teaching artist living in Charlotte, NC. He is a National Slam champion (2018), an Individual World Poetry Slam champion (2019), author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press 2020) and Composition (Button Poetry 2023). Jay currently serves as Charlotte’s inaugural Poet Laureate and is a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and current Writer in Residence for Charlotte Lit. Ward has attended Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Watering Hole and Tin House Winter Workshop. His work can be found in Columbia Journal, Four Way Review, DIAGRAM, Diode Poetry Journal and elsewhere.
Dr. Kristin Daley spent much of her career working in various aspects of sleep medicine and has always had a passion for sleep and psychology. After receiving a BS in Biology from UNC-Chapel Hill, she started working on a SIDS research project at Carolinas Healthcare System and then moved into their adult sleep clinic. While working as a sleep tech, she completed her MA in Clinical/Community Psychology from UNCC, and then moved to a technical director position in sleep medicine with Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Assoc, under the tutelage of Dr. Mary Susan Esther, past president of the AASM. During this time, she also completed her PhD in Clinical Health Psychology at UNCC, and started a behavioral sleep medicine practice at CEENTA. She has been awarded fellow status by the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine for her work in clinical behavioral sleep and advocacy for insomnia treatment. She co-founded BASE Cognitive Behavioral in 2018 with a focus on empirically validated intervention for a broad spectrum of mental health conditions.