Join us for the next Resources for Resilience session, Trauma-Informed Case Management. The session will explore recognizing signs of trauma in clients, strategies for trauma-informed advocacy, and sharing successful interventions.

📅 Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Location:  United Way of Acadiana – 215 E. Pinhook Rd, Lafayette, LA 70501

• Recognizing signs of trauma in clients 
• Strategies for trauma-informed advocacy 
• Sharing successful interventions

This session is ideal for human service professionals, educators, and community leaders committed to fostering resilience and creating stronger support systems.

About Brooke Taylor

Brooke Taylor works as the foster parent partner/kinship mentor at The Extra Mile.  She has 9 years of lived experience as a foster parent.  She has fostered over 20 children and adopted 2 beautiful girls through the foster care system.  In 2025 she became an educator for LaCare so she can teach others about childhood adversity and building resilience.  She also became a TBRI practitioner offering TBRI trainings through The Extra Mile.  Brooke’s favorite thing about her job is building relationships and connecting to other foster parents.  She loves working closely with DCFS and other community partners to find ways to improve the foster care system and get children the services needed.  When she’s not working she enjoys spending time with her family.  She loves to read, mostly psychological thrillers.  Brooke also enjoys shopping, watching movies and Saturday night card games.

About Natalie Duff

Natalie Duff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Clinical Supervisor with over 25 years of experience working with children, adults and families.  She spent 20 years working in schools,  4 years in private practice and mental health and is currently the Program Manager for The Extra Mile – Mobile Crisis Response.  Natalie is passionate about connecting with and empowering families to overcome mental health and social challenges in life to become the best version of themselves individually and as a whole as well as building up others to do this work.  She has spent her career counseling, consulting, training, teaching and advocating with and for children, adults and families and most recently helping to build an effective program to address youth and adult mental health crises in the Region 4 community.  She also recently became a TBRI Practitioner in order to educate the community through training offered by The Extra Mile.  When she is not working she enjoys spending time with her family, especially her two grandchildren as well as traveling, reading and serving within her church family.