Intersection of Adverse Childhood Experience & Neurodevelopmental Condition

Intersection of Adverse Childhood Experiences &

Neurodevelopmental Conditions

2 hr session

June 27, 2024 from 1-3pm EDT

2 Social Work CE Credits Available

Note

This course is offered in one segment via Zoom. You will receive a registration confirmation email with Zoom link, additional instructions and the Zoom link a week before the training from the Institute for Human Service's training team (training@ihs-trainet.com), and another reminder 24 hours before the session starts. You may want to add the email address to your contact list to ensure the email comes through. Please check in the spam folder in case you don’t receive the first email. Sometimes employers’ firewalls and filtering services block communication from unrecognizable email addresses. We advise you include an alternative email address to prevent this from happening.

About the Course

The intersection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Neurodevelopmental Conditions is complex. Some neurodevelopmental conditions such as Down Syndrome have a strong genetic component. Others have long been strongly associated with ACE’s including conduct problems, and depression. More current research indicates there is an association between ACE’s and intellectual disability, anxiety, and ADHD as well. Family stressors significantly impact children with NDC’s as they are less able to modulate their individual stress responses. Families, in turn, may experience increased stress due to the demands of parenting a child with NDC’s. ACE’s can delay the diagnosis of children’s conditions interfering with the start of needed services. We will look at the current research on these topics and identify the implications for working with children and families facing these complicated concerns. Families and systems get stuck in a vicious cycle of reaction and frustration. By mapping out the possible connections we can work with a family or system to identify opportunities for positive intervention.

This intermediate level, live virtual course is appropriate for all human services professionals supporting those with Neurodevelopmental conditions and adverse childhood experiences.

Course Objectives

As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the intersection of genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of Neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Describe the complex interactions between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurodevelopmental conditions.
• Identify practice implications for working with children and families impacted by both ACE’s and Neurodevelopmental conditions.

Continuing Education

This training is approved for 2 Social Work CE Credits. See additional information on each below.

The Institute for Human Services, provider #1802, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023 – 03/25/2026.

To earn CE credits, participants must attend the entire session in its entirety, remain on camera, complete an evaluation, and pay the CE fee at the time of registration.

The Institute for Human Services understands that circumstances arise that may prevent registrants from attending a pre-paid training. A training and continuing education credit (minus Eventbrite platform and any credit card fees) will be refunded if a registrant cancels their training attendance on the registration platform at least 7 days in advance of the training event. If the registrant does not cancel within 7 days of the continuing education session, no refund will be issued.

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Reminder: This virtual workshop will take place from 1 pm – 3 pm Eastern time. Please make note of your time zone.

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Trainer Bio
Laura Gaines, MSW, LISW-S has twenty years of experience as a child and adolescent mental health clinician and Crisis Text Line volunteer. Laura worked with children, their parents and their school districts to diagnose, treat and manage anxiety disorders in children at home and in the community. Her goal was to empower even the youngest child to find ways to "shrink the worry monster" so that they could focus on having fun, building relationships, and learning. Trainer and researcher regarding resilience as an individual and community skill. Laura provides clinical consultation regarding child and adolescent mental health. Her trainings focus on child development, mental health, developmental disabilities, ethics, trauma-informed care, resilience, and each person’s individual solutions to life’s challenges.