Get help and learn specific strategies on how to help your child be mentally well at school and home.

SPS University is an event for the entire Springfield community. Part resource fair, part conference, SPS U is designed to connect you with resources and information to help support your child.

• Keynote Presentation by Russ Tuttle, President/Founder of The Stop Trafficking Project: Technology and Life Online, Powerful and Practical Information for Keeping Our Students Safer Online 
  • Provide insight into the role of technology in exploiting vulnerabilities 
  • Receive the "top ten practical tips" for caring adults to help keep their students safer 
  • Name apps and provide practical advice to guide caring adults 
• A resource fair to connect you with more than 50 community partners offering programs that benefit your family
• A free meal
• Free childcare for ages 4 to 8
• Featuring a Mental Health Panel Discussion led by top local experts in child behavior, mental health and wellness

Russ Tuttle

President/Founder of The Stop Trafficking Project

Russ grew up for much of his childhood and teenage years in India before returning to the United States for college. He saw firsthand, children deprived of their childhood, living in abject poverty, homeless, working as child laborers, and sold…their lives without hope. As an adult, he also began to realize that the sex trafficking of children was not just a tragedy happening in other countries; it was a present and growing evil taking place in the United States. He became aware of an American federal law that protects American children on American soil…against the crime of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST).

This awareness led him to create The Stop Trafficking Project®, where he serves as president and founder. He uses his strengths in communication, leadership, team development, and compassion to end domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) before it starts by disrupting the exploitation of vulnerability. Russ serves The Stop Trafficking Project as the visionary and primary communicator, and he is the creator and director of BeAlert Student Assemblies, which is the prevention and awareness strategy of The Stop Trafficking Project. In addition to the BeAlert Student Assemblies, he regularly provides professional training for law enforcement agencies, hospitals and clinics, school board associations, school administrators and staff, and various coalitions. Russ has more than three decades of service in the not-for-profit world.