A Staff Development Coordinator for Maryhurst, located in Louisville Kentucky. He has fifteen years of experience in promoting the healing of youth who have experienced complex trauma. Beck is a trainer of the following nationally recognized programs and curriculum: Risking Connection, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Safe Crisis Management, and Seven Challenges. Beck has served on the Kentucky Adolescent Substance Abuse Board for the past six years. He conducts trainings nationally and throughout Kentucky focusing on providing education and advocacy regarding trauma, de-escalation and gender identity.
Beck enjoys his fur babies, Benson and Tic, as well as golfing, physical exercise and dancing. He is originally from Kansas, where he spent most of his childhood on a farm with his family. Beck is extremely passionate about creating safe spaces for the LGBT community.