Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) Certification for Youth Education and Engagement Professionals

Erica Hruby, M.A. is a Jewish educator with nearly 30-years of teaching, curriculum writing, and professional development experience in Jewish community, academic, and residential environments. Erica serves as Senior Manager, National Teen Education and Engagement at The Jewish Education Project. She is also the founder of Anchored Parenting, LLC where she serves as a parent educator and coach. Erica has an M.A. from Georgia School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology with a focus on children and adolescents. She lives on the West Coast of Florida with her high school sweetheart with whom she shares two adult daughters.

Haley is the Director of HereNow at The Jewish Board and has previously held roles at Pardes, Hadar, Hillel, and the American Hebrew Academy. As an active lay leader, Haley serves on the board of her synagogue, Kehilat Hadar Shaare Zedek, sits on the Springboard Alumni Advisory Committee, and volunteers as a mentor for Moving Traditions' Kol Koleinu Teen Feminist Fellowship. She is Fellow in The Ruskay Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership, a trained Youth Mental Health First Aid Facilitator, and recently completed her M.A. in Jewish Professional Studies at Spertus.