This webinar will focus on building supportive, welcoming environments in everyday life - at home, in the workplace, in classrooms, and throughout the community. Participants will learn simple, practical ways to foster emotional safety and confidently start difficult conversations. The presentation will also highlight Sean’s House as a model of a community safe space, including the peer support and mental health resources it provides for young adults.

Presenter: Angela Pugliese, Director, Sean's House
Angela Pugliese is the Director at Sean's House, a mental health safe haven for teens and young adults as part of the SL24: UnLocke the Light foundation in Newark, Delaware. She spent the first decade of her career as an educator in Delaware high schools. She is deeply committed to creating safe, brave spaces for vulnerable conversations and to providing resources to the community supporting positive coping strategies and harm reduction. When not engaged in advocacy work, you can find her living by the three R's (reading, reality tv, and relaxing!) with her husband and two children.