Upcoming Conference
Innovate Your Culture
Pre-Conference
Why this Innovate Your Culture Pre-conference?
“IYC: Messages of Hope, Solidarity and Progress” – Pre-Conference sessions will be held at the Center for Health Equity on December 12, 2024. This pre- conference is designed to convene nonprofit, corporate, and institutional stakeholders to acknowledge and support the health of our families, workplaces, and communities given the essential focus on healing and recovery from the recent disasters.
Pre-Conference Objectives
Create space to acknowledge the necessary healing from recent disasters and its disproportionate impact on marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Engage in solutions-based dialogues to build and sustain momentum as we evolve from the current crises.
Create opportunities for attendees to engage in discussion and develop solutions for their particular needs.
SCHEDULE OF THE DAY
11:30am – Doors open: Lunch & registration Noon – Welcome
12:30pm – Yoga & Mindfulness – this short session is designed to prepare and center the participants for the following sessions.
1:00pm – Opening Session “Mental Health Matters”- This panel navigates how to prioritize mental health in an emotionally charged environment. Research from the World Health
Organization underscores the undeniable fact that our communities and workplaces must function in more inclusive ways concerning mental health challenges/differences.
2:00pm – Closing Session – “From Crisis to Resilience” – This session will feature professionals/practitioners who have endured internal and/or external organizational challenges and have learned how to move the conversation from focusing on the current crisis to establishing plans of resilience.
3:00pm – Closing Remarks & Announcements
NIKKI GASKIN-CAPEHART
Nikki Gaskin-Capehart, is a change agent and champion for building generational wealth. She has over 25 years of experience initiating and leading innovations in the public, private, non-profit, and business sectors. Ms. Gaskin-Capehart is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida, where she lives with her family.
She is the President & CEO of the Pinellas County Urban League, Inc., where she manages the agency’s long and short-range strategic planning, fiscal management, and fundraising. She maintains knowledge of national and local issues, constituent issues and translates them into programming and service efforts. She implements Board policy and program decisions and expands linkages with the community in business, labor, and industry to facilitate the mission of the Urban League. She has overall responsibility for supervision, management and effective functioning of the agency’s administration, its staff, programs, and services.
PATRICK DIGGS
Patrick Diggs has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the past 23 years and has maintained a private psychotherapy and consulting practice since that time. He began his career as a certified law enforcement officer for the State of Florida for 7 years. He left law enforcement to begin a career in non-profit mental health and substance abuse. After 7 years in the non-profit world he returned to the law enforcement field in 2005 with the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office forensic psychiatry unit within the county jail. For the past 10 years he has worked extensively with trauma survivors of all ages and ethnicities. He was one of the founding members of the City of St. Petersburg’s African American Mental Health Initiative under Mayor Rick Baker. He holds several certifications in evidenced-based therapies used to help trauma victims recover. He was appointed to the State of Florida’s council on BlackMen & Boys.
He continues to consult and work with regional law enforcement entities on a wide range of initiatives and collaborate with community initiatives to address mental healthcare disparities. His many years working in non-profit, government, and private practice settings have allowed him to develop a comprehensive understanding of human behavior and the human struggle to make sense of traumatic life experiences.
DR. DURON LEE
Duron A. Lee, MD is a board-certified family medicine & primary care sports medicine physician at HCA Lake Nona Primary Care in Orlando, FL and serves as an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine. Dr. Lee is also an interventional regenerative orthopedics and sports medicine physician. He specializes in regenerative medicine techniques designed to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes and promote tissue regeneration by utilizing cutting-edge techniques to treat a variety of orthopedic conditions.
Dr. Lee additionally serves as a charter member of the HCA Healthcare Physician Services Group, North Florida Division Physician Advisory Board subcommittee for primary care. He is a member of the board for Florida Care Partners Orlando, LLC and is a member of the Board of Trustees for William Peace University, where he serves on the academic affairs committee. He is member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated and has dedicated himself to a lifetime of community service. In his free time, he enjoys indulging in an eclectic variety of music and food, cooking, traveling and spending time with his family and friends.
DUGGAN COOLEY
Duggan Cooley, CFRE, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Pinellas Community Foundation (PCF) in Clearwater, Florida, a position he has held since November 2016. With over two decades in nonprofit leadership, Duggan has led impactful initiatives such as the preservation of the Gladys Douglas Preserve and development of programs that support critical nonprofits. Under his guidance, PCF has also played a crucial role in disaster and recovery funding, addressing the immediate and long-term needs of the community following recent storms. Throughout his career, Duggan has raised more than $100 million to support important nonprofits across the Tampa Bay Area, significantly enhancing service availability and organizational resilience. Previously, Duggan was President and CEO of the United Way of Pasco County and Religious Community Services Inc. He holds a Master of Nonprofit Administration from the University of Notre Dame and dual degrees from the University of Florida. Duggan is recognized for his strategic leadership, deeply committed to enhancing nonprofit effectiveness and community well-being, consistently advancing missions across various organizations.
BETH A. HOUGHTON
Beth A. Houghton serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County, a mission-driven organization with an over 75-year history of strengthening the lives of children and families in Pinellas County. She is passionate about improving the lives of children, both because they are the innocent who cannot control their circumstances and because, as a society, improving children’s lives today and into the future is simply a smart investment.
Ms. Houghton has received numerous locally prestigious awards recognizing her impactful community service. She and her husband Scott Wagman are raising two of their five grandsons, who are now 11- and 12- years old.
JACLYN GRAMAZIO
Jaclyn Gramazio, LCSW began her career in community mental health in 2003. She completed her Master of Social Work degree from the University of South Florida in 2007 and went on to earn clinical licensure in 2018. Over the last twenty years, Ms. Gramazio has provided clinical and supportive services in a variety of community-based settings including in-home interventions, school-based supports, and inpatient treatment and coordination. Her areas of clinical interest include mindfulness techniques and somatic therapies for improved wellness. In 2021 Jaclyn joined the Florida Blue’s Clinical Care Programs to where individualized support to members with complex psychological and medical needs. Ms. Gramazio is an avid runner and yogi. She engages with her community through volunteerism and is a proud marching band booster.
DR. JENNIFER M. KATZENSTEIN
Jennifer M. Katzenstein, PhD, ABPP-CN is a board-certified pediatric neuropsychologist, Co-Director of Center for Behavioral Health, Director of Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Social Work at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her PhD from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis in clinical psychology and completed her internship year and 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She is the 2020 winner of the Service and Professionalism Award at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and a national and international speaker on topics ranging from mental health of children to physician wellbeing, speaking most recently in Dubai and Latin America. Her passions include building behavioral health services for youth and their families, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of the workforce, with a specific focus on workplace violence.
