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Bayview/Hunter’s Point neighborhood in 1988 and since 1990 has lived and worked in <br />various counties in North Carolina focusing on children under 5 as a child care provider, <br />home visitor, program director and on a multidisciplinary evaluation team. From 1999- <br />2018, Ennis served as a manager and mental health specialist for Orange County Head <br />Start/Early Head Start in Chapel Hill, NC. In this role, she provided leadership and early <br />childhood mental health consultation to program staff and families around issues of <br />toxic stress, child abuse & neglect, parenting, preventing and managing children’s <br />challenging behavior, quality child care, adult & child mental health and strengthening <br />families by promoting protective factors. Ennis is trained as a facilitator/parent educator <br />in Triple P Level 3, Incredible Years Parenting Program, Circle of Security Parenting <br />and Darkness to Light/Stewards of Children. She serves on the Board of the North <br />Carolina Infant and Young Child Mental Health Association and on the Durham ACEs <br />Task Force. She has co-chaired the Orange/Chatham Early Childhood Mental Health <br />Task Force since 2012 and co-led the Orange RESILIENCE Initiative since 2017. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Recommended Action: ___Approve <br /> ___Approve & forward to Board of Commissioners for action <br />___Approve & forward to ___________________________ <br /> _X_ Accept as information <br /> ___Revise & schedule for future action <br /> ___Other (detail):