"Overcoming Adversity" Plainfield, IL

23748 W 135th Street,Plainfield IL 80544

04 November, 2021

Description

Dawn shares her skills that you can take away today to empower your life and find positivity. when it seems impossible. This class talks about the life story of Dawn Shumway. When Dawn was 9 years old, her mother and sister were killed by her father. Later, she had to runaway from her placement home to escape sexual abuse. Then, at 17, trying to survive on her own, she was hit by an SUV while biking home from work. She was flown to a hospital and had emergency brain surgery. Life felt destined to be nothing more than riddled with incredible pain. So when the hospital released her with oxycontin, she decided to head to her family's grave and end things on her terms. But she didn't. Then at 18 she applied to be a 911 dispatcher, and built a new chapter. Dawn shares her skills that you can take away today to empower your life, find positivity when it seems impossible, build resilience, and create hope. In both work and your personal life. This is a raw look at how messy life can truly be yet how we can overcome it and not just survive, but thrive. The Denise Amber Lee Foundation was founded by Denise’s loving husband, Nathan, who sought changes to a 9-1-1 system that failed her that day.  The Foundation is here so no other person, family, or community has to endure the pure hell of a similar event and that no other children have to endure a lifetime without the comfort and guidance of their loving mother. We envision a time when a citizen's first call for help will be answered by a state-of-the-art 9-1-1 call center staffed with dedicated and highly trained professionals. A time when 9-1-1 will fail no-one.