Jeffery A. Faulkerson Promoting Functional Families through Words and Deeds Company: Practical Solutions Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina Website: www.practicalwritingeditingconsulting.com

Biography:
Jeffery A. Faulkerson is the Founder, President & CEO of PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, a faith-based social service practice with for-profit offerings in communications/media relations and nonprofit offerings in parent education and support, postsecondary advising and planning, and conference planning, coordination and implementation. A stay-at-home parent since August 2005, he has dedicated himself to "promoting functional families through words and deeds."

Following the release of his book Raising My V.O.I.C.E. (Verbalizing Orderly Impressions through Creative Endeavors), Faulkerson was featured on several radio programs, including Drybuzz.com (Atlanta, Georgia), The Sports Mavericks Show with Ida Muorie (Orlando, Florida), Morning Coffee with Tracy and Friends (Youngstown, Ohio) and Thinking Out Loud with Carl Swann (Tri-Cities, Tennessee) Raising My V.O.I.C.E chronicles his 16-year quest to understand why Americans focus so much on their differences, not enough of their similarities. It also serves as a clarion call for contemporary Christians for take a much firmer stance for Jesus.

Faulkerson’s other writing credits include feature and sports articles and columns published in the Daily Beacon, Knoxville Journal, Oak Ridger and MEOA News. He currently writes a bi-monthly column, FIRM…but fair, for the online publication Keeping Family First.

Jeffery A. Faulkerson graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1998 with his Masters of Science degree in Social Work Management and Community Practice. During his years of study at UTK, he also completed 24 credit hours of classes in Communications/Public Relations through the College of Communications.

Faulkerson has over 16 years of professional experience in nonprofit administration and direct service delivery to children and their families. From 2001-2005, he served as the Director of Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc.’s Bruce Wells Scholars TRIO Upward Bound Program in Worcester, Massachusetts. He oversaw a long-term federal grant allocation that made it possible for he and his staff to offer pre-college services to 70 low-income, first-generation (to attend college) and disabled high school students.

Faulkerson is the Past President (serving two consecutive terms) of the Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association (MEOA) (www.meoaonline.org), which advocates on the local and state levels for disadvantaged secondary students desiring a postsecondary education. He has also written and/or participated in the writing of successful letters and grant proposals submitted to private and public funding sources.

Faulkerson has worked for state social service departments in Tennessee and Massachusetts, being responsible for the assessment and placement of children and adolescents in foster homes, group homes, residential treatment facilities and juvenile detention centers. He also served as the Staff Development Coordinator in the Human Resources Department of a large social service agency in Tennessee.

Availability:
Available to speak about active parenting, functional families, racial reconciliation, civic engagement, collective prosperity, educational access and opportunity.