This screening and discussion is being hosted by the Advocacy Center's teen activism group, ACTion. Please join us for this important and powerful documentary. After viewing the documentary, there will be a facilitated discussion with local college activists and Advocacy Center staff. ACTion's mission is to...
Ithaca's 40th annual Take Back the Night will be held on Friday April 26th. This march, rally, and speak-out calls for an end to intimate partner and sexual violence in our community and world. Take Back the Night amplifies the message that you are not...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
