ATN is pleased to announce our Keynotes and Distinguished Contributors for our 9th annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference in Dallas, TX, June 27-29, 2026
Opening Session, Sunday, June 28: Julie Beem, with Distinguished Keynote Contributor, Dr. Mona Delahooke
Julie Beem, MBA, retiring Executive Director of the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) will kick off the conference withThe Hard Work of Change: Becoming Truly Trauma-Responsive – a session where we’ll explore the challenges of changing our own brains and mindsets along the journey from trauma-aware to trauma-responsive. Dr. Mona Delahooke, our Distinguished Special Guest, will virtually deliver an important message about the necessary paradigm shifts to helping all children thrive.
Julie Beem is a wife, mother and grandmother who led the Attachment & Trauma Network from 2009 until April 2026. Julie was deeply influenced by her high school English teacher in her initial career that included communications and corporate marketing until adding to her family through an international adoption in 1998. This change in her family’s journey shifted everything. And Julie found herself looking for answers about attachment challenges and early childhood trauma that were nearly impossible to find in 2000…except for the Attachment & Trauma Network. Spending countless late nights researching, and discussing with others about trauma, neuroscience, attachment and resilience, Julie knew that her life’s work was no longer corporate communications and marketing – she knew too much about early childhood trauma to look away. Instead, bringing her business skills with her, she embarked along this journey to become trauma-responsive, a journey she continues today even into her retirement years.
Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience caring for children and their families. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and a retired faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodivergent children, adolescents, and adults.
She is the author of the award-winning book, Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges, and Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behaviors and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids, and is a frequent speaker, trainer, and consultant to parents, organizations, schools, and public agencies. She lives and works in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Scott Delahooke.
