REACH Summit Bios
Margie Haywood
Owner and CEO of Work and Play Lounge
Owner and CEO of Work and Play Lounge, Margie Haywood is this year’s inspirational Keynote Speaker at Summit. Her list of talents is extensive: host, emcee, DEI Strategist, life coach, community advocate, corporate trainer and activist. Margie is sure to inspire us in sharing her topic: Undoing Cultural Norms through Love, Laughter and Simple Tools!
A native of Seattle, Washington, Margie dedicates her voice to speaking up for the overlooked whose visibility is a side note. She gives her time to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. Before this was a trendy acronym or paid gig, connecting diverse communities is Margie’s very heart.
Margie’s favorite job in the entire world is being a mother to five and then CEO of the first Black-owned coworking and event space in Washington. She’s found her passion unifying people across differences. Margie is on a mission to interrupt institutional racism and cultural norms of selfishness, bias and hate through training, consulting, inspiration, poetry and music. Her goal is to connect with audiences to provide simple, measurable, attainable tools which can be implemented and replicated easily and immediately in communities by leaders and systems.
Margie thrives on building community accountability and disrupting oppression in love while encouraging decision-makers to use their power, influence and platforms to promote change.
Chayli Duerson, M.A.A.L.
National Director of Financial Development and Donor Relations
Chayli is the adoptive mom of a special needs boy from India. Recently, her family, along with their two dogs, moved to Missouri to have better access to medical care for Judah.
Chayli has over five years of professional fundraising experience, including three years working in nonprofit recruiting, marketing, and leadership. In 2018, she received her Bachelor of Science in business from Western Governors University and completed her Master of Arts in Administrative Leadership with a concentration in Nonprofit Management in 2020. Chayli is currently working toward her Associates of Biblical Studies from Panhandle Bible College which she plans to complete in 2025.
Passionate about fulfilling James 1:27, Chayli loves to invite donors to join Teen Reach in serving modern-day orphans through camp and mentoring. She joined the team part-time in 2022 and is raising support this year to work full-time with Teen Reach.
With her experience in donor relations, Chayli is excited to share best practices and tools in fundraising on October 4 at the REACH Summit in Portland where new and seasoned camp leadership can learn from one another.
Connect with Chayli at chayli@teenreach.org or book a meeting at calendly.com/chayli-duerson. You can also find her on Linked In at linkedin.com/in/chayli-duerson.
Olivia Paulson
TBRI Practitioner and T.R.A.C. Lakeland Co-Director
Olivia Paulson is a TBRI practitioner. In addition to training others on trauma-informed care for youth from hard places, Oliva lives out TBRI in her home, her local church congregation, and throughout Central Florida. As one of the founding directors of T.R.A.C. Lakeland, established in 2019, she is creating a camp program for residential group homes to decrease staff turnover and youth placement disruptions. In addition to her passion for providing healing relationships to “the least of these,” especially in camp settings, Olivia enjoys cats, coffee, whiteboards, ping pong, and spotting dirty Teslas on the road.
Trust-Based Relational Intervention, or TBRI, is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, connection is the heartbeat of TBRI. Learn more at www.child.tcu.edu.
Level Up, Level Down: Staying in the Game when Facing the Big Boss of Challenging Behavior - 1 hour
Facing challenging behaviors from campers is expected, but we aim to address behaviors so youth can return to the safe fun of camp. TBRI Levels of Response offers a framework that equips staff to meet needs in the moment, bringing campers back down when their emotions have leveled up.
You're doing it, Peter! Discovering and Believing in the Trauma-Informed Principles in your T.R.A.C. Neverland - 3 hours
The TBRI Principles - Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting - are the pixie dust that makes a soaring impact for at-risk youth in Just Three Days of camp. Do you believe? This workshop provides a survey of the TBRI principles, how they apply to our camps, and how we can use them to discover more opportunities to meet the needs of our campers who have had to grow up too soon.
Catherine Rana
Registered Dietitian
Catherine Rana, a Registered Dietitian originally from Boston, Massachusetts, now resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She specializes in managing eating disorders and diabetes. Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 13, Catherine has dedicated herself to educating others about nutrition and ensuring that all foods can be part of a balanced diet. Her experience working in a pediatric hospital with patients with autism has fueled her commitment to addressing Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). She also has experience working with patients who have different psychological and medical experiences like depression, histories of abuse and abandonment, IBS, and others. Catherine now focuses on educating others about ARFID and making mealtimes less challenging for patients and their caregivers.