2009 Learning Opportunities
2009
Remember, Family Works pays $100/person toward training each year.
Each parent needs 24 hours/year of ongoing training.
April
- April 28 – Oconomowoc, WI
Developmental Stages for Foster/Adoptive Children This workshop will assist parents in recognizing how children develop in healthy environments and how normal stages of development can be “disrupted” when children experience abuse and/or neglect. The purpose is to inform parents that children who have experienced disrupted development can receive help to address resulting emotional or behavioral challenges. This FREE class will run from 6 – 8pm at the Oconomowoc Public Library. Call 414-475-1246 to register.
May
- May 6 – Appleton, WI
- May 7 – Madison, WI
- May 8 – Milwaukee, WI
Toxic Anger. Learn how to assess anger toxicity and help children get rid of “old” anger. Shift the emotions to behaviors, and find seven ways to avoid becoming a victim of anger. Fee: $184.00, register online www.pesi.com.
- May 12 – 13 – Green Bay, WI
Hope, Health and Healing. The purpose of this training is to provide an educational opportunity for individuals who have sustained a brain injury, family members and professionals. Explore styles of communication, behavior, and social interaction that lead to improved relationships, friendships and healthier communities. Fee $160.00 – Call 262-790-9660 to register.
- May 26 – Appleton, WI
- May 27 – Madison, WI
- May 28 – Brookfield, WI
Risk Assessment & Mental Status Exam. This seminar will give you both the tools and skills needed to conduct a thorough Mental Status Exam and help you make correct treatment decisions. You will also be better able to recognize known risk factors for violence and suicide, as well as increase your skills and raise your confidence level as you encounter high risk clients and situations. Fee $184.00, register online www.pesi.com.
June
- June 2 – Wausau, WI
Growing Up the Hard Way: Mental Illness and Children at Risk. This presentation offers you a chance to explore the wide range of emotional problems of youth – attachment and attention disorders, anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, youth violence, and youth suicide. Fee: $140.00 – Call 800-725-9692 or online http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/mental-health.
- June 10 – Appleton, WI
- June 11 – Madison, WI
- June 12 – Brookfield, WI
The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques. Learn effective techniques to diminish or eliminate the symptoms of panic and generalized anxiety. Identify and interrupt beliefs that set off panic attacks and apply breathing and relaxation that work as the cornerstone of controlling and stopping panic attacks. Fee $184.00 – Call 800-844-8260 or online at www.pesi.com.
- June 16-17 – Middleton, WI
Boys and Girls at Risk. Learn what the emerging science suggests about gender differences, the developing adolescent brain, and what promising practices can have a positive impact on children at risk. Fee: $175.00. Register online at www.boysgirls-atrisk.org.
- June 19 – Madison, WI
Mental Health and the Law in Wisconsin. This eye-opening seminar will help you gain important guidance and advice on such issues as confidentiality, HIPPA compliance, responding to subpoenas, court orders and law enforcement; balancing the rights of minors, parents and provider; treatment issues and legal liabilities for the professional. Fee $198.00. Register at http://www.meds-pdn.com or 715-836-9900.
- June 23, Menomonie, WI
Sensory Integration-Bringing It Home. This FREE workshop will run from 6 – 8:30 pm at the Public Library and is designed for Foster and Adoptive parents and will focus on creating positive sensory and emotionally rich environments for your family. For further information call 715-832-6644 ext 19.
- June 24 – Appleton, WI
- June 25 – Madison, WI
- June 26 – Brookfield, WI
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This seminar will help you acquire competence and confidence in putting CBT methods into practice in your daily work with clients suffering from mood and anxiety disorders. The format will include a dynamic presentation, case examples, discussion, video demonstrations and many practical handouts. Fee $184.00, register online at www.pesi.com.
July
- July 31 – LaCrosse, WI
Supporting Foster Care and Adoption Through Secure Attachments. This workshop will introduce low-risk versus high-risk patterns of attachment and caregiving. Application to foster and adoptive families is aimed to help children heal from the effects of prior maltreatment and losses. Caregivers will receive coaching to read their children’s patterns of cues and miscues and pull them into a healing relationship. Fee $25.00. Register online at http://www.uwrf.edu/wwpartnership/onlineregform.htm
August
- August 5 – Appleton, WI
- August 6 – Madison, WI
- August 7 – Brookfield, WI
Resolving Chronic Misbehavior at School and Home. The training will help caregivers overcome defensiveness, lying, defiance and deception. Learning the steps to asses the needs underlying misbehavior will end the “ignore-nag-yell-punish” cycles and endless power struggles. Fee $184.00. Register at www.pesi.com or 800-844-8260.
- August 4 – Rockford, IL
- August 12 – Davenport, IA
- August 13 – Cedar Rapids, IA
Suicide & Self Mutilation. Once we discover the goals of self mutilation and suicide, we can help individuals achieve those goals with other less damaging strategies. Expect to gain a respect for the personality types that are vulnerable to suicide and self-mutilation and the essential link between these behaviors. Fee$189.00. Register online at www.pesi.com.
- August 19 – Appleton, WI
- August 20 – Madison, WI
- August 21 – Milwaukee, WI
Psychopharmacology: Moods, Medication & Mental Health. Expand your understanding of brain chemistry and the latest psychotropic medications. Enhancing your ability to assess the effectiveness of medications may improve outcomes for those individuals in your care who are taking them. Fee $184.00. Register online at www.pesi.com.
September
- September 16 – LaCrosse, WI
Suicide Prevention Summit. Increase your understanding of suicide, its prevalence and the risk factors for specific populations, while acquiring tools for prevention, assessment, and interventions. Fee $55.00, includes lunch. For registration information call 608.785.6508 or email langaard.kare@uwlax.edu.
- September 24 – Milwaukee, WI
Love and Logic for Parents. Do your family challenges include those of…Motivation? Discipline? Listening? This 3 hour training at the Country Spring Hotel will help you find solutions to: creating respectful, responsible kids; getting kids to listen the first time; putting an end to arguing; and helping them make good decisions. For registration information go online to www.MilwaukeeMoms.com.
October
- October 19 – 22, 2009 Middleton, WI
The 25th Annual Midwest Conference on Child Sexual Abuse, featuring Dr. Bruce Perry, will be held in Middleton, WI. Watch for more information.
November
- Nov 11,18 & 25 – Portage, WI
Love and Logic Parenting Training. Columbia County Family Resource Center is offering these FREE Early Childhood trainings aimed at raising children’s self-esteem, reducing parental frustration, guiding children in problem-solving, setting limits, using healthy consequences and sharing control through choices. Call 608-742-8482 to register.
- Nov 20 – Portage, WI
Overview of Mental Illness and Recovery Oriented Treatment Planning. This FREE training event is designed for anyone connected to mental illness. It will provide an overview of the major categories of mental illness, a discussion of when psychotropic medication may be indicated, and an introduction to recovery oriented treatment planning. Register by calling 608-742-9717.
December
- Dec 1 – LaCrosse, WI
Effective Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Behaviors. This FREE 3 hour workshop, presented by the Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center, will outline breakthroughs for parents in dealing with behaviors such as lying, defiance, and aggressions. It will also help parents lead children toward emotional healing. Register online at http://www.uwrf.edu/uwpartnership/.
- Dec 9 – Appleton, WI
- Dec 10 – Madison, WI
- Dec 11 – Brookfield, WI
- Dec 11 – LIVE Webcast
Executive Dysfunction and How to Help the Disorganized Child. Learn strategies for helping the child/adolescent who has trouble keeping track of belongings and assignments, struggles with time management, cannot monitor behavior, may be inflexible when solving problems, and shows poor impulse control. Fee $189.99 or $159.99 for webcast. Register online www.pesi.com.
- Dec 15 – Middleton, WI
Love and Logic: Practical Solutions to Today’s Most Common Teaching Challenges. Dr. Charles Fay will present this 6-hour training to help teachers and parents learn how to better motivate capable students who just won’t try, respond to students who argue and show disrespect, get students to comply with simple requests, and much more! Fee $99.00. Register at 800-338-4065 or online at www.loveandlogic.com.
- Dec 17 – Teleconference
Strengthening Self-Esteem, Resilience and Body Image in Adolescents. This 90-minute teleconference will look at some of the unspoken messages implicit in common day media images and explore the negative and critical self-talk that they generate. Explore ways to teach adolescents to own, accept and manage their feelings, to understand the impact of negative self-talk in promoting stress, self-doubt, and worry, and how to talk back in order to change internal messages and build self-confidence. Fee $99.00. To register call 866-352-9539 or www.lorman.com.
- Dec 18 – Portage, WI
Psychotropic Medications. In this FREE 3-hour training, Dr. Ron Diamond will present information on different categories of psychotropic medications and how they work, side effects, the role of medications in mental health treatment, and indications for use. Call 608-742-9717 to register.
Attention Social Workers in need of Continuing Education Hours
The Wisconsin Board of Social Workers allows for 5 CEHs of self-study courses. To learn more about online courses that offer practical brief clinical interventions for a variety of mental health issues, please visit www.MentalHealthCEs.com.