Tagged With "recovery"

Thomas Jefferson University's newly formed Department of Counseling and Behavioral Health has generated its first-ever newsletter . If you're interested in trauma-informed training and education , or if you simply want to stay abreast of the work of some great clinicians, researchers, advocates and aspiring professionals, please have a look. The Community and Trauma Counseling program currently has Art Therapy options and is launching two new specializations and certificates this summer: (1)...

As Houston ’s school district of more than 200,000 students scrambles to repair damaged schools before classes begin next week, they must also plan for traumatized students to enter the classroom. The Houston Independent School District is in the process of working with counsellors, nurses and social workers to develop a “mental health recovery plan” for the district’s hardest hit schools, according to a statement from HISD. In the meantime, Mental Health America of Greater Houston and...

A new one-year agreement between Waco Independent School District and the Klaras Center for Families - Heart of Texas Region MHMR will allow the school district to give more help to students who have experienced trauma than ever before. The $103,000 agreement approved by the district’s school board Sept. 29 will put a case worker and either a licensed professional counselor or a licensed clinical social worker on the Brazos High and Middle School Credit Recovery Center and the GL Wiley...

SESSION 2: ADDICTIONS IN POP CULTURE Using our STRENGTH AND resilience to move forward with hope and HEALING. how does pop culture provide you with an emotional outlet? how does pop culture perpetuate the stigma of addictions? Pop Culture??! Yes, you heard right! Pop culture provides us with an opportunity to relate to or connect with someone, even if it is a character in a show or movie. In this session we will focus on our emotions and potential triggers and how we can move through them.

ROUND 3: COMMUNITY X EMPOWERMENT WITH GUEST PEARL WHITE QUILLS FOR A DRUMMING SESSION. Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we...tickets-143805798013 --------------- Approximately 1/5 children (including adult children) have experienced their parent's addiction, so we KNOW that we are NOT alone in our experiences. But we also know that it can FEEL incredibly lonely. That's why we have created this series: In this 3 part series, Samantha Wettje ( 16 Strong Project ) and Agnes Chen (...

Join Education Upended April 28th and May 17th, 2022 for a 2-part conversation about a SAMHSA funded project which explores the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal process through a trauma-informed lens. April 28th join guests Leora Wolf-Prusan and Yesmina Luchsinger from the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) team. We will discuss the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal concept and framework through a lens of systems change, policy, and school mental health crisis leadership. May 17th...

If you missed my Education Upended conversation last week with School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) Project Director Leora Wolf-Prusan you can watch it here on YouTube! This conversation was on FIRE ! We discussed not only what it means for schools to experience and recover from a crisis but also what it means to go through the process of RENEWAL. How do school communities make meaning of what happened so they can go beyond coping and begin healing? How do school leaders set up systems...

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