Marquette University Peace Works: Creating Healthy Communities through Social Emotional Education
RECORDED ON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021
Presented by: Patrick Kennelly, Arts '07, Grad '13, Director, Center for Peacemaking; Matt Cashman, Arts '07, Director, Boys Middle School, Notre Dame School of Milwaukee; Dr. John Greene, Jr., Principal, i5 Consulting, LLC and Interim Executive Director at New Beginnings Are Possible, Inc.; Bridget Schock, Supervisor, Contracted School Services Program, Milwaukee Public Schools
Marquette University’s Center for Peacemaking, an academic research center, fosters research and action for the promotion of peace, human dignity, and justice. The Center for Peacemaking works with local K-8 and high schools to implement Marquette University Peace Works, a peace education and violence prevention program that promotes mental health resources and equips students with strategies to become successful learners while building school and family connections.
Join Patrick Kennelly, director, Center for Peacemaking and three partners from Milwaukee educational institutions to explore the following MUPW peacemaking initiatives:
- Promoting Resiliency and Improved Coping in Education (PRICE) – advances digital learning and provides a resource for teachers to help students and families cope with and manage mental health challenges.
- Milwaukee Public Schools Success Center Program – helps students improve their social-emotional resiliency and equips students with strategies to become successful learners and build school and family connections.
- 4 Schools Initiative – supports students struggling with mental health, academic, and/or behavioral challenges by providing clinical mental health services and educational interventions for students and families enrolled in the program.
More about this session
Patrick Kennelly, Arts '07, Grad '13, is the director of Marquette University's Center for Peacemaking and serves as the Principal Investigator for the Near West Side Partners' signature grant program known as PARC, Promoting Assets and Reducing Crime. Pat earned a BA and MLS from Marquette University. Pat was recently honored as one of Milwaukee Business Journal's Forty Under 40 and also is a Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leader.
Matt Cashman, Arts '07, is a graduate of Marquette University with a B.A. in political science and a minor in theology, Master in Education (M.Ed) from the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Master of Arts (MA) in educational leadership from Saint Louis University. He taught middle school English, coached basketball, and ran the Civil Rights Initiative at Gateway Middle School in St. Louis Public Schools for nine years. He has served as the founding director of the Boys Middle School program at Notre Dame School of Milwaukee and continues in that role today.
Dr. John N. Greene, Jr., was born in Greenville, Ala. and raised in Southfield, Mich. John attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. He earned a Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in clinical psychology with a psychology-law subspecialty.
John began his career by accepting a commission in the U.S. Navy obtaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He served in various duty stations in the U.S. and Japan. He then joined the Detroit Office of RHR International, a leadership consultancy. In 2003, he joined Johnson Controls. He led the Talent Management, Learning and Development, and Corporate Office Human Resources function. He concluded his tenure at JCI leading the Global Workforce Diversity function. He currently serves as the Principal at i5 Consulting, LLC and Interim Executive Director at New Beginnings Are Possible, Inc.
John is married with six children. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of New Beginnings are Possible and is a member of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center Board of Trustees. He is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and chaplain of the Kappa Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi.
Bridget Schock is the program supervisor for contracted schools, which includes the charter schools, at-risk and behavior programs in Milwaukee Public Schools. She has been an educator for 20 years serving students and families in Milwaukee Public Schools as a teacher, coach and administrator. Bridget attended the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater where she received her undergraduate degree in education, then the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse where she received her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, and then Marquette University where she earned her administrative leadership degree. Bridget believes that every student deserves a quality education that paves the way to pursue any pathway they desire. If students and families are provided the resources and tools they need to be successful, then no dream is too large to achieve.