Let's Talk About Resilience for Adoptive Parents with Tracy Loken Weber

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Tracy has over 25 years of community leadership and service, actively serving on numerous local, state, and international boards and currently serving as the State Co-Chair for the Collective Impact Parent Partner and a Mental Health Advocate for the Wisconsin Office of Children’s Mental Health and the WELS Foster Care Advisory Group. Tracy is currently serving the UW-Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Program as a Foster, Adoptive, and Relative Statewide Trainer.

Weber presents internationally on behalf of adoptive and foster parents, trauma-informed best practices, educational technology and adult literacy issues through associations with the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Health and Human Services, Office of Children’s Mental Health and Infinitely More Speaker Team. Weber’s teaching background includes instruction for UW-Milwaukee and UW- Milwaukee School of Continuing Education in Milwaukee, WI; St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota; and Bemidji State University, also in Minnesota. She has also held the position of elementary staff development technology integrationist on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation with the Cass Lake-Bena School District.

Weber earned a Bachelor of Science in Education and Master of Science in Curriculum and Design and Instructional Technology and holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Accounting. Tracy is also a certified trainer for aha! Process, Inc., in the Bridges out of Poverty Seminars and is trained through the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU in Trust-Based Relationships (TBRI) & Trauma-Informed Classrooms. In August 2020, Tracy became a Master Coach holding Certifications in Professional Life Coaching, Life Purpose Coaching, Goal Success Coaching and Happiness Life Coaching and in October 2021 she became a Certified Youth Mental Health Frist Aid with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. She is currently a Ph.D. in Leadership for the Advancement of Learning and Service doctoral candidate at Cardinal Stritch University expecting to graduate in May 2022.

In 2013, Tracy was inducted into the Professional Education Hall of Fame at Bemidji State University. She currently serves on various committees and board appointments. Weber was awarded the Milwaukee Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” award in 2012, in recognition of her leadership and success in the nonprofit sector in southeastern, WI. In addition to the Literacy Coalition of Southeastern Wisconsin’s Spirit Award for unwavering advocacy of literacy for K-20 students.

Tracy and her husband Thomas live in Wisconsin, with their five adopted children.

Connect with Tracy at: www.TracyLokenWeber.com

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