July 22-25, 2012
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

John F. Kennedy

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Emily Dickinson

We'd never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.

Scottish Proverb

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Scottish Proverb

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

All problems stem from a loss of hope.

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Hope Conference Speakers

Major Rachel E. Foster, PhD, MSW, BCD
United States Air Force

Major Rachel E. Foster, PhD, MSW, BCD, Biomedical Sciences Corps, United States Air Force, is the Mental Health Flight Commander for the 579th Medical Group, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC. In her current position, she leads the daily operations of mental health, alcohol and drug treatment, and demand reduction elements serving an enrollment of over 3,200 active duty patients from the Washington, DC metro region.

Major Foster was commissioned into the Biomedical Sciences Corps as a first lieutenant in 1998. She served for three years at Lackland-Kelly AFB, TX, first as the Chief, Family Advocacy Policy and Research, and then as the Chief, Mental Health Division Policy and Research. Her research interests are family violence, attachment as it relates to child maltreatment, individual and family resilience, and the useful applications of intervention research for mental health clinicians of all disciplines.

A Board Certified Diplomat in Social Work (BCD), she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University, a Master of Science in Social Administration (MSW) from Case Western Reserve University, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina.

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