Lunchtime Learning - October
with Shannon McFadden
aired October 22, 2025
Topic: School Discipline to Incarceration: Special Education, Resiliency, and Re-entry
Description: This interactive, informal discussion will address the following topics:
- Disparities in school discipline
- How school discipline leads to increased chronic incarceration
- Tools and strategies for assisting youth with building resilience and trust after incarceration.
About the Speaker:
Shannon McFadden, MS, CPRP, CFRP, CRCCP is a former special educator, an education & human services consultant, and the Director of Behavioral Health Services for a non-profit organization. From an early age her father, Jerome McFadden, for whom the center is named, instilled in Shannon and her sister the importance, not just of education, but of doing everything within your power to use education as a tool for social justice.
Currently, Shannon serves as the Founder and Chief Operations Officer of JMEC, LLC. As a psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner, child and family resiliency practitioner, and trauma-informed training facilitator, Shannon uses her expertise to create programs that meet the large breadth of needs of today's youth.