Lucinda L. Miles
Secretary, Board of Directors

A life-long trainer and facilitator, Lucinda is passionate about empowering others in the community. Under the leadership of Volunteers for Youth Justice, she has advocated for children and families in crisis since November 2013. As the TBRI® Program Director at VYJ, she is recognized as a notable TBRI® (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) Practitioner, Certified Life Coach and author of Disciple of Joy, an Interactive Spiritual Journal.

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Dedicated to helping others experience healing from the effects of complex trauma, she initiated the TBRI® Program at Caddo Parish Juvenile Court, and has generously served hundreds of bio parents, caregivers, and stakeholders both locally and statewide with the TBRI® Caregiver Strategies.

Ms. Miles and her team created the Road to Family Empowerment© as a 10-week training curriculum utilizing the TBRI® Strategies to better teach a one-on-one advocacy course. In April of 2022, the Volunteers for Youth Justice TBRI® training team began transformational work educating inmates at Caddo Correctional Center utilizing the healing TBRI® Caregiver training.

Lucinda is a 2020 Blue Cross Blue Shield Angel Award recipient for her work pioneering the vision, design, and implementation of a Calming Studio©, a sensory rich room in Caddo Juvenile Court which provides an alternative space for children to experience playful engagement and TBRI®
informed care. She is the owner and handler of Sasha, the ‘Emotional Support Puppy’ who daily brings joy to foster children. Lucinda passionately believes that when we create quiet and peaceful spaces, both internally and externally, transformation and healing are possible.