Hope & Healing
JAX Team

Kirsten Freitag Murray
Amber Hollister
LIBBY CURRAN, M.ED
Kirsten Freitag Murray
President & CEO
TBRI® Practitioner 

 CERTIFIED POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR

CERTIFIED POSITIVE DISCIPLINE PARENT EDUCATOR

CERTIFIED EMPOWERING
PEOPLE IN THE WORKPLACE FACILITATOR

STRENGTHENING FAMILIES FOR PARENTS &
YOUTH (10-14) CERTIFIED FACILITATOR

ACTIVE PARENTING CERTIFIED FACILITATOR

MULTIPLYING CONNECTIONS FACILITATOR

We’re here because children do better when the adults around them are equipped to support them well. too often big behaviors are misunderstood. When we have better tools — the people around us have better outcomes.

This training shifts the lens From ‘What’s wrong?’ To ‘What happened?‘ And ‘What do you need?‘

 

That’s it. That’s everything.

Amber Hollister
DIrector of Operations

CERTIFIED POSITIVE DISCIPLINE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR

We use Three principles. Working together. In order.

Connecting to build the relationship
Empowering to meet the need
Correcting to teach the skill

These create Emotionally safe spaces, Trusting relationships, and Healing-centered environments.

Prevention, healing, and hope all begin with connection.

That’s why we’re here.

LIBBY CURRAN, M.ED
PROGRAM
COORDINATOR

CERTIFIED POSITIVE DISCIPLINE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR

CERTIFIED POSITIVE DISCIPLINE PARENT EDUCATOR

TBRI® and Positive Discipline, give us a complete picture of how to Understand behavior, Manage emotions and Build relationships that actually work.

This is how we create Positive Childhood Experiences and Positive Lifetime Experiences. Places where children and adults feel: Safe. Loved. Connected. Capable.

That’s why we’re here. That’s why this matters.”

“No matter how old you are, or how old your child may be, there are scientifically supported and relatively simple steps that you can take to reboot the brain, create new pathways that promote healing, and come back to who it is you were meant to be.”

Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educators

Certified Positive Discipline Early Childhood Educators

TBRI® Practitioners

Libby Curran, MEd
Kimberly English, M.A., LMHC, MEd
Amber Hollister
Lexi Little
Lesley Matheson, MSW
Kirsten Freitag Murray
Josh Nelson, MEd
Kelly Pfeiffer
Elizabeth Sizler
, LCSW
Robin Staley, LMHC
Taquria Thompson, MSW
Ariel Tinker, LCSW, MSW, MEd
Vickey Walker, LMHC
Khrystal Whitlock, LCSW
Tyree Williams, MHA, MS, RDN, LD/N
Shauna Winterbottom, MEd

WHY ARE WE HERE?

“Outcomes can change when adults change conditions.

When adults create:
Safety. Connection. Predictability. Support.

Children do better.

Every time. In every setting. With every child.

This is why we do what we do.

Healing is possible. Prevention is possible. Better outcomes are possible.

One relationship. One skill. One child.

At a time.