"Parenting with PTSD: 
Breaking the Cycle without Falling Apart"

Registration Deadline 12/9/16

 
Training Description:
How do adults abused as children go on to become effective parents? The author speaks from a combination of personal and professional experiences as writer, mother, reporter, parent via adoption and trauma survivor. For most of her adult life she’s been exploring how to live, love and parent well after being raised in hell. She shares data, stories, insights and a surprisingly upbeat and humorous perspective of parenthood and adult life after adverse childhood experiences.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the ACE Study and how it can be a useful tool in working with parents who have a trauma history
• Discuss the specific and daily challenges those parenting with post-traumatic stress experience
• Identify 3 strategies for supporting parents with PTSD
  

Who Should Attend?
This talk is geared to mental health clinicians, but would also be valuable to family partners, outreach workers, school personnel, health professionals, child welfare workers, and others.

Speaker:
Christine “Cissy” White is a writer, health activist, trauma survivor, mother, and founder of the Heal Write Now Center (www.healwritenow.com). She’s been published in major media, including The Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine online, and Spirituality & Health magazine. Her work focuses on adverse childhood experiences, traumatic stress, and the long-term health and well-being of trauma survivors. She blends research, interviews, and personal experience to create powerful presentations. She’s a contributing writer for the book Trigger Points Anthology: Abuse Survivors Experiences of Parenting. 

Continuing Education: Applications for 3 hours of continuing education credits will be submitted for Social Workers, LMHCs, LMFTs, and Nurses. Please contact Jenny Huynh (jhuynh@riversidecc.org) for the status of the CE accreditation. This training is approved for 3 hours of continuing education for Psychologists. RiversideCommunity Care is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor education for Psychologists. Riverside Community Care maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Registration: Registration is $55 per person or $35 per person for Riverside Community Care employees. Pre-registration is required. Complete the registration online by filling in the appropriate information and paying by credit card or, if you prefer, a hard copy of the registration form is available online to print out and complete. If you prefer to pay by check, please make the check payable to “Riverside Community Care” and send it to: Jenny Huynh, Riverside Trauma Center, 255 Highland Ave., Needham, MA 02494. The registration deadline is 12/9/16.

Registration starts at 9 am. Refunds will not be available for this training.

Coffee and bagels will be provided. Please share this information with others who are interested in these topics.

Contact: jhuynh@riversidecc.org