The Speaker Series at Mercy Home for Boys & Girls Presents:

The ARC Framework: Treating Complex Trauma and Building Resilience in Children & Adolescents

Presented by:
Jeremy Karpen, MA, LCPC - National ARC Trainer and Director of Learning & Development at Mercy Home for Boys & Girls, Chicago, IL

Registration Details:
Wednesday, November 14 – Thursday, November 15, 2018
8:30am – 5:00pm each day
Mercy Home for Boys & Girls
West Loop Campus Multipurpose Room - 1140 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL

Co-developed by Dr. Margaret Blaustein and Kristine Kinniburgh, The ARC Framework (Attachment, Regulation and Competency) is a flexible framework proven to enhance effective trauma treatment by intervening with both the child and the caregiver system; allowing you to foster the supportive environment necessary for healthy development and lasting change.

Attend and discover what over 300 agencies and child-serving systems already know. ARC gives you a roadmap to cultivate attachment in traumatized youth, build the self-regulatory skills they need to identify and manage powerful emotions, and establish a positive sense of identity that will set the stage for a healthy and fulfilling adult life.

Registration begins at 8:00am

Cost:
Early Bird Tuition - $325/person (before 10/26)
Regular Tuition - $375/person
Student Tuition - $300/person (requires current valid ID)
Group rates available (3+ participants) - email jerkar@mercyhome.org

This fee can be paid online with credit card or on the day of the event with cash or check made out to “Mercy Home for Boys and Girls.

14 CEUs provided (Social Work CEU License #159.001001)

Speaker Biography:

Jeremy Karpen is a National Trainer for the ARC Framework and is the Director of Learning and Development at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls in Chicago, IL. His clinical experience includes extensive work with youth and families in residential care and with domestic violence and partner abuse intervention. In addition to joining the National ARC training team in 2016, Jeremy is a certified instructor for the following curricula: Crisis Prevention Institute Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, National Resource Center for Youth Services’ Residential Child & Youth Care Professional, Red Cross adult and pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED, and the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Protecting God’s Children. Jeremy received his BA from Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN and his MA in Forensic Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Jeremy is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois. In addition to residential care, his clinical experience includes domestic violence and partner abuse intervention. He is also certified in the Child Trauma Academy’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT).

Learning Objectives:

• Establish the meaning of complex trauma and communicate three consequences of early complex trauma exposure.
• Explore the role of routines in the caregiving system to enhance a child’s felt safety and stability, and specify why this is important in treatment.
• Characterize how the core attachment targets of ARC apply to the participant and/or providers within the participant’s system.
• Articulate at least one aspect of self and identity that may be impacted in trauma-exposed youth.
• Determine how caregiver ability to identify their own responses to trauma reactions is critical to the recovery process in children who have experienced trauma.
• Employ techniques that enable caregivers to depersonalize trauma-driven behaviors and reframe responses to trauma reactions.
• Characterize at least two patterns of youth dysregulation, including function of the adaptation.
• Establish how strategies for teaching children to identify physiological responses to stress can help them understand and regulate the arousal response.
• Employ exercises to help traumatized children identify safe resources and develop effective communication styles.
• Support how consistent emotional responses from caregivers can help establish secure attachment.
• Determine how self-identity can be developed through exercises that establish positive self-recognition and a future orientation.
• Specify how activities that target executive function can be incorporated into trauma treatment to improve impulse control and build problem solving and negotiating skills.

For more information, please:

• Email speakerseries@mercyhome.org
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• Visit https://arcframework.org/