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About the speaker

Abby Potter (she/her) has been with Sheppard Pratt for thirty years, beginning as a volunteer at the Forbush School in Towson. Thirteen of the best years of her professional career were spent as a special education teacher for Sheppard Pratt Schools. After completing Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) training, Abby knew this philosophy and process was vital not only for Sheppard Pratt Schools staff, but for anyone who works with children. She made it her mission to spread this skillset, along with other evidence-based frameworks such as Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), for the better part of the last fifteen years. Abby has worked with 14 counties across Maryland, as well as private and public programs within the larger educational and mental health community, as a dynamic trainer and consultant with a passion for “keeping it real” and, above all, building relationships so we can better help young people.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Abby L. Potter, M.Ed.,  reports that she has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review.

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis J. Marino, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, April Sobiech, LCSW-C, Latia Suite, LCSW-C, Rachel Smolowitz, PhD, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.