SF Connection was created on a Saturday morning in March 2020, when the world seemed to be closing down and school counselors were writing to me in fear, asking, “What do we do now?”

I had never led a Zoom meeting or taught online, but I could hear the panic in their messages, and I knew I could not leave my colleagues alone in that moment. I believed then, as I believe now, that students are never unreachable. We just have to change the doorway.

So I put together ten simple slides on solution focused school counseling, and invited a small email list to join me the next Wednesday.

Within an hour, 50 people had signed up.

What began as an emergency response became a community.

Through COVID and in the years since, thousands of counselors and educators have gathered to remember that hope finds a way, that

small conversations can change lives, and even in the hardest circumstances, we can reach students.

SF Connection was born from my loyalty to school counselors, educators, students and to the belief that even when the world shuts down, we can still find a way to reach one another.