Ashley Ballard presents her passion for  Education and Community Behavioral Health through Detroit nonprofit, Black Family Development Inc.

There Ashley, a Detroit resident by way of Los Angeles, provides prevention and intervention services to the K-8 students of an area charter school while overseeing parent engagement. By ushering parents back into the school room [and their child’s education] she can deliver evidence base, structured treatment to Wayne County parents and ultimately the community as a whole.

Ballard is a ministry leader at Straight Gate International church; an advisory board member for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Detroit (SCLC- Detroit); and the founding Chair for the Detroit Chapter of the And Campaign. She is professionally trained in Restorative Justice and Practices, and is certified in Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS),  Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students(TRAILS) and Parenting Through Change (PTC).

Ballard earned a B.S. in Psychology, from Regent University in Virginia, and M.S. in Performance Psychology, from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, completing a dissertation topic which has been published and internationally presented.

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