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Date: 8/24/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding the importance of sharing stories in advocacy
  • Establishing boundaries and managing your audience when sharing your story
  • Utilizing lived experience to empower youths and families

Title:  Unwind the Mind – Self Care & Planning

Date: Friday, July 28, 2023  from 10-1PM

Location: In-Person

Event Goals:

  • Connect with fellow peer advocates and understand their challenges throughout the year
  • Goal-planning for the new fiscal year
  • Destress activities and games to unwind with peers

 

Title:  Impacts of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023  from 10-1PM

Location: The Bronx

Audience: Social Service providers within the New York City Area (ie case managers, social workers, peer advocates, mental health providers, coordinators, case workers, and those working with the youth in various capacities)

Professionals with the following licensed will be eligible to receive 3 free continuing education credit LMHC, LMSW, LCSW, PSYD and PHD.  If you are seeking to obtain CEU’s please provide license number on the registration form.   

 

Date: 6/15/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Defining LGBTQ
  • Understanding the importance of LGBTQ friendly language and utilizing this within your workplace
  • How to become an ally

Date: 6/1/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding the challenges newly arrived migrants may face
  • Learning key factors about Federal immigration policies
  • Identifying the various resources available to newly arrived migrants

Through this workshop attendees will better understand how to support and provide resources to children and families dealing with grief. Using her expertise through her own work and research, Dr. Robin Goodman will further discuss typical grief reactions and responses of children at different ages. Attendants will develop tools to encourage resilience in grieving children. 

Date: 5/11/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Bring in expert to discuss the various stages of Autism
  • Helping parents understand the diagnosis
  • Mental Health Resouces for families

Date: 4/13/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding and navigating the OPWDD system
  • How to be a champion within the system
  • Utilizing additional resources to support individuals with disabilites

Date: 3/23/23

Time: 9am-5pm

Location: In-Person

Overview: Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps you identify, understand, and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses.

Learning Objectives:

  • Risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems.
  • Information on depression, anxiety, trauma, psychosis, and addiction disorders.
  • A 5-step action plan to help someone developing a mental health problem or in crisis.
  • Where to turn for help — professional, peer, and self-help resources.

Date: 3/30/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • The importance of validation in building staff morale
  • Undertanding and creating a culture of recognition
  • Recognizing staff’s strengths and supporting in their development

Date: 2/9/23

Time: 10am-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:
1. Acknowledge the role white supremacy culture plays in program delivery
2. Participants will begin to explore how their understanding og power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) impact youth development service delivery
3. Participants will discuss what a Justice Based Practice looks like in their spaces

Through this workshop attendees will better understand how to identify symptoms of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. Using his expertise through his own work and research, Dr. Geroge Ramos will further discuss biological and cultural factors in relation to Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. Attendants will develop tools to facilitate non-judgment conversations and explore services for parents that are presenting with symptoms of Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. 

Date: January 26, 2023

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding different types of advocacy
  • Practicing advocacy within your role
  • Learning more about credentialing process and code of ethics

Date: January 12, 2023

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding different types of leadership
  • Exploring your individual leadership style
  • Using leadership skills as an advocate

Date: December 15, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding and practicing accountability
  • Defining roles and responsibilities in a team
  • How to effectively delegate as a Supervisor

Date: December 8, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Common mental health concerns in children and youth.
  • Understanding the advocate role
  • Review the various Mental Health services in NYC

Date: November 17, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Learning outreach skills within different communities and settings
  • Effective engagement strategies throughout a multitude of platforms
  • Utilizing these skills and strategies within the peer advocate role

Date: October 27, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding the Mental Health System
  • Why is Mental health important in education?
  • Exploring options within the Mental health system and Education

 

father and son sitting on stoop

Date: October 20, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-Person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems
  • Connection between Juvenile Justice and Foster Care and how to maneuver between the two systems
  • Exploring Juvenile Justice and Foster Care Supports

Date: September 29, 2022

Time: 10-1pm

Location: In-person

Learning Objectives:

  • Understanding the role of the supervisor and importance of flexibility and communication
  • Defining work styles and their relation to lived experiences
  • Ways to foster and develop practical coaching skills