Special Keynote Speaker Lynn Johnson
Vice President of Children & Youth Initiatives of CityServe International
Children & Youth Initiatives of CityServe International
Lynn Johnson is currently the Vice President of Children & Youth Initiatives for CityServe International. Her role focuses on driving national initiatives that empower churches to combat the crisis of children aging out of the foster care system, adoption, human trafficking, and empowering young women to be leaders in their communities. She brings determination, passion, and a strong belief in the dignity of all people no matter the challenge before them. Her only passion greater than serving vulnerable and exploited populations is her deep faith in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Before this work, Mrs. Johnson was the Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services. In this Senate-confirmed position, she led a large agency with a budget of over 59 billion dollars and over 60 programs to improve and enhance the lives of our most challenged children, individuals, and families.
As the Executive Director of Jefferson County Department of Human Services in Colorado, she used a comprehensive lens to provide dignity and respect for our most vulnerable members of the community to end poverty, eliminate abuse and neglect and stop the trafficking of children. Appointed to several committees, her expertise ranges from child welfare to welfare reform and criminal justice. Mrs. Johnson has won numerous awards for Excellence in successful transformations of Human Services and customer service.
Before joining the Jefferson County Department of Human Services, Mrs. Johnson ran a firm consulting on issues on mental health, high-risk youth, developmental disabilities, child welfare, and early childhood education. She was Chief of Staff to Lieutenant Governor Jane E. Norton and was Deputy Director for Policy as well as Policy Advisor on Human Services issues to Governor Bill Owens.
Mrs. Johnson has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a master’s degree in Social Work from Arizona State University. She is a graduate of the Federal Judicial Center National Leadership Development Program and the Senior Executives in State and Local Government through the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education. She has been married for 36 years and has three adult children.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/about/bio/lynn-johnson
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Vice President of Children & Youth Initiatives of CityServe International
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Darrin Person, MSW
Executive Director
Person to Person Counseling
Darrin Person is a graduate from Oral Robert’s University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1997 and from California State University, Fresno (CSUF) with a Master’s in Social Work in 2000, respectively. Darrin has a beautiful family: His wife Iris Person (18 years of marriage), son Darrin Person Jr. (15) and daughter Amiris Irene Person (9)
Mr. Person is the co-founder of Person to Person Counseling services with his wife Iris Person that provides counseling services to disadvantaged and at-risk individuals and families. They also provide an array of seminars and workshops: marriage, boundaries, mental health. Darrin also serves as the Associate Pastor of the Praise Church located in Clovis, California where he has served for the past twenty years. Mr. Person preaches and teaches a message of hope, healing, and abundant living through Jesus Christ.
Professionally, Mr. Person also works as the Mentor Manager for Fresno Unified School District, the fourth largest school district in California, where he has implemented nationally recognized programs that serve thousands of students each year. Mr. Person is also adjunct professor at Fresno State University and Fresno Pacific University.
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Mike Brose, MSW
Retired, Executive Director
Michael Brose was born in Liberal, Kansas, and attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa where he earned his bachelor’s degree in social work in 1979. He attended the University of Kansas and graduated with an MSW in social work in 1980 before returning to Tulsa where he and his wife Maren have made their home since. Mike has worked extensively with individuals living with serious mental illness and their families. He has also worked in juvenile justice, medical social work, and geriatric mental health care. He served as the Director of Family Therapy at St. John Medical Center from 1987 to 1992. He became the director of the Mental Health Association Oklahoma in 1993 and served as the CEO there for 27 years, overseeing growth from five employees to almost two hundred as a statewide organization. He currently practices privately with individuals and families, consults, and volunteers in the community and across the state.
https://mhaok.org/
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Patricia Apy, MSW, JD, Esq.
International and Interstate Family Law Attorney
Paras, Apy, & Reis
Patricia Apy has been since 1996 been a partner in the law firm of Paras, Apy, & Reiss, a professional corporation specializing in the practice of family law. Ms. Apy’s area of expertise is in complex family litigation, particularly international and interstate family litigation.
Ms. Apy has litigated, been qualified as an expert witness and consulted on international family disputes throughout the world, including locations as diverse as the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Israel, Australia, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and United Arab Emirates. Ms. Apy frequently consults and is regularly qualified as an expert on issues related to the application of religiously based family law systems, including Sharia (Islamic) Law, Halacha (Jewish) Law and the application of the Hindu Marriage Act (Indian Law). She speaks throughout the United States and Canada on family dispute resolution in both Hague and “Non-Hague” countries and in assessing risk factors for international child abduction. She also has conducted over a thousand hours of continuing legal education for Judge Advocate General Corps of all of the United States Armed Services at bases and vessels around the world.
https://par-law.com/patricia-apy/
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Mike Matthews
Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Oral Roberts University
Oral Roberts University
Michael L. Mathews, VP of Technology and Innovation at Oral Roberts University. Michael L. Mathews (Mike) has over 24 years of experience as a senior level IT executive bringing creative solutions that value the end users of education, technology, and business process management. These solutions have benefited the end users of higher education, manufacturing, and high technology company products. Mike spent 12 years working at Cray
Research where he trained hundreds of supercomputer engineers across major industry sectors. Michal has held positions as a VP of Innovation, chief
information officer, general manager of CIOs, chief strategist for innovation, business development officer, trainer, teacher, and vice president of academic services for leading corporations and higher education. Mike has been a CIO within higher education and corporate training for over 19 years.
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Oral Roberts University
Stacey Blaylock, MSW, LCSW
Program Director, Oral Roberts University Social Work
Oral Roberts University
Stacey R. Blaylock is Director of the Social Work Program & Assistant Professor of Social Work.
Stacey has practiced as a medical social worker for six years, most recently at St. John Medical Center as the Trauma Social Worker. A returning alumna, she earned her BSW from ORU, as well as her MSW from the University of Oklahoma and is an Oklahoma Board-approved and -licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Regarding teaching, Professor Blaylock says, “My classroom philosophy centers on experiential learning and information retention. Experiential learning cultivates an environment of engaged learning, rather than a passive learning environment as traditionally implied in higher education. I deliver course content in a way that provides students with a personal learning experience, resulting in students retaining and recalling information more effectively. Witnessing students apply the concepts from the classroom into their practicum is rewarding.”
Outside of the classroom, her accomplishments include: Winner of the 2019 Innovation in Online Teaching Award; lecturer at the 2019 Marketplace Leadership Institute (MLI) in Singapore, presenting on Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Sensitivity in the Marketplace and Ministry; annual presenter at the NASW Oklahoma State Conference with presentations focused on the ethical use of social media in social work, as well as the non-traditional role of Police Social Work; served as the NASW Tulsa Branch President from 2013 to 2014; current member of the NASW Oklahoma.
https://oru.edu/academics/cose/undergraduate/social-work.php
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Program Director, Oral Roberts University Social Work
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Dr. Hayoung Lim
Director of the Music Therapy Program and Clinic
Oral Roberts University
Dr. Hayoung Lim is Director of the Music Therapy Program and Clinic, and Professor of Music at Oral Roberts University. Dr. Lim is a board-certified, neurologic music therapist (NMT Fellow) and current member of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She earned her bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance from the Catholic University of Korea, and master’s degree in both Cello Performance and Music Therapy from the Illinois State University. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. degree in music education with an emphasis on music therapy from the University of Miami. Her dissertation title was “The Effect of Developmental Speech-Language Training through Music in Speech Production in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.” She completed her music therapy internship at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, and worked as a full-time music therapist at the Cleveland Music School Settlement in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Lim also worked as the music therapy director at Children’s Health & Education Management, Miami, FL and specialized in music therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Lim joined ORU in 2014 and prior to her current appointment, worked as Director of Graduate Studies in Music Therapy at Sam Houston State University in Texas. In addition, Dr. Lim has worked as a concert cellist, performing numerous solo recitals and chamber music concerts (as a member of K-Piano Trio) in Seoul, Korea and the U.S.
https://oru.edu/faculty/hayoung-lim.php
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Director of the Music Therapy Program and Clinic
Oral Roberts University
Jonathan Kratz, MSW, LCSW
Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma
Jonathan Kratz, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He has an extensive background in juvenile justice and forensic social work as well as in mental health and school based services with children and families. He teaches across the direct practice curriculum in the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work including courses in mental health, group work, advanced clinical social work theories of practice, and the integrative seminar. His research at OU focuses on clinical pedagogy related to Motivational Interviewing, Suicidality, and High-Fidelity Clinical Simulations.
https://www.ou.edu/cas/socialwork/faculty-staff/jon-kratz
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Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma
Dr. Lanny Endicott, D.Min., MSSW, LCSW, LMFT
Professor Emeritus
Oral Roberts University
With a lengthy and distinguished career in higher education, Dr. Lanny Endicott has dedicated his professional life to social work. He was the Director of the Social Work Program at Oral Roberts University (ORU) for over 47 years. Dr. Endicott continues to be involved in social work education both at ORU and abroad (Russia). His interests besides education include: community planning and development, social services (particularly South Peoria in Tulsa, Oklahoma), workshops in compassion fatigue and burnout, community services for military veterans including soul repair, child welfare (both in Oklahoma and Russia), and family. Lanny has earned a Doctorate of Ministry from the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is affiliated with NASW, NACSW; the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa; the South Peoria Neighborhood Connection Foundation Inc; the South Tulsa Community House and social work in Russia. Recognized by those in the field for his work, Dr. Endicott was awarded Social Worker of the Year in Oklahoma by NASW-OK in 2003. As well as being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist where he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In conjunction with his professional interests, Dr. Endicott is a keen runner, having been Head of Cross Country and Track Coach at ORU. Ever a leader, he launched the cross country program at ORU in 1976. Their best season was in 1984 when ORU finished 11th in the NCAA National Cross Country Championships.
https://oru.edu/academics/cose/undergraduate/social-work.php
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Professor Emeritus
Oral Roberts University
Brittany Gomez, MSW, LCSW
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Oral Roberts University
Brittany Gomez is an Assistant Professor & Director of Social Work Field Education at ORU where she enjoys helping to raise up the next generation of Spirit-empowered social workers. Gomez’ direct practice experience includes emphases in the areas of childhood trauma, attachment disorders, & anti-human trafficking. She loves using social work as a tool to spread
the fragrance of Christ.
https://oru.edu/academics/cose/undergraduate/social-work.php
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Assistant Professor of Social Work
Oral Roberts University
Chris Campbell
Executive Director
111 Project
Chris first got involved in foster care recruitment and support as a mission’s pastor unaware of the local crisis in his own backyard. Now as the executive director of the 111Project, Chris gets to work weekly with church leaders, denominational leaders, child welfare agencies, and other charitable organizations to mobilization the local church so every child has a family. Chris’s primary efforts are focused on seeing a church-led discipleship movement that can bring tangible changes to the child welfare system. 111Project also is the local implementor behind the technology platform CarePortal. Chris and his wife Ashley are the parents to 5 kids - one through adoption. They are also honored to have an additional family member that is an amazing young adult named Michael, who aged out of foster care and now works for CarePortal as a software developer.
111Project has been recognized nationally with the Angels in Adoption Award, has been featured annually in OKDHS annual
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