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22 Mar Trauma Informed Creative Arts Therapy for Mental Health Professionals (Goshen, NY)

Posted at 15:42h in Uncategorized

The Creative Arts Therapies are uniquely situated to provide clinicians with verbal and especially non-verbal tools to help clients recover from traumatic experiences as well as providing the clinician creative clinical assessment approaches and methods for working with clients suffering from PTSD, specifically because trauma...

22 Mar Understanding Behavior Through the Lens of Trauma Informed Care for Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Posted at 15:40h in Uncategorized

Trauma changes the brain chemistry. Participants will learn vital information that should be incorporated into screening and intake practices, planning and daily interaction. While there has been a wealth of information about the impact of traumatic life events and trauma-informed care in the field of...

22 Mar Becoming a Competent Care Provider for Transgender and Gender Expansive Children and Youth in Complicated Times

Posted at 15:31h in Uncategorized

In this workshop, participants will learn how the mental health paradigm has changed to support inclusion of transgender and gender non-conforming youth, how to make sense of current controversies, as well as delve into the treatment approaches and ways to prepare for some complexities of...

22 Mar Diversity and Inclusion in Social Work Practice: A Model from Deaf Mental Health

Posted at 15:09h in Uncategorized

Deaf Mental Health specialization, and the reported experiences of Deaf or hard of hearing clients living in a ‘hearing-centric’ society, has the potential to support and reinforce cultural Deafness, or pathological ‘hearing impairment’. Deaf Mental Health encourages us to provide culturally affirmative mental health care,...

22 Mar Exposure/Response Prevention (Ex/RP) for the Treatment of OCD

Posted at 14:59h in Uncategorized

Participants will have a brief overview of the components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and why this is the first line treatment for extinguishing this debilitating anxiety disorder. This training will help participants learn to assess and understand symptoms, mechanisms of fueling...

22 Mar CBT for the Treatment of Panic Disorder

Posted at 14:43h in Uncategorized

Participants will have a brief overview of the components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Panic Disorder, and why this is the first line treatment for extinguishing this debilitating disorder. This training will help participants learn to assess an understand symptoms, differentiate panic from anxiety, and to...

22 Mar Webinar: What is Restorative Integral Support?

Posted at 14:16h in Uncategorized

This brief webinar presents the Restorative Integral Support (RIS) model, showing how to identify and tap a range of community assets and individual strengths to build community wealth and resilience. Service providers, policymakers, community leaders, and in fact all community members, play roles in creating...

21 Mar Cover the Cruiser for SAAM

Posted at 19:35h in Uncategorized

Join Victim Advocacy Services of Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson and your local law enforcement agency and pledge to believe survivors. Come to VIA Port (Rotterdam Square Mall) Malls parking lot and sign a pledge that will then be taped to the cruisers....

21 Mar SAAM Day of Action 2019

Posted at 19:30h in Uncategorized

Wear teal, the color of sexual assault awareness and prevention, on the SAAM Day of Action. Wearing teal — whether it’s a teal ribbon, shirt, or other accessory — will serve as a conversation-starter about topics like consent, respect, and supporting survivors. Share a selfie...

21 Mar Standing Up for Survivors

Posted at 19:26h in Uncategorized

Join Victim Advocacy Services of Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson for Stand Up for Survivors, a comedy fundraiser for Victim Advocacy Services, with Jarrett Mayo, Jennifer McMullen, Jaye McBride, Andy McDermott, and Erin Harkes. This event will be held at the First Reformed Church of Schenectady....