Learn about the five social-emotional factors that can lead to unwanted behaviors in school-age children. This session will discuss the five social-emotional factors of attention, protection, control and justice and how they impact school-age children. Learners will reflect upon their responses to challenging behaviors and discover strategies that can be applied.

Learning Objectives:

1.Identify the social‐emotional factors that may impact unwanted behaviors.
2. Apply a problem‐solving approach to address unwanted behaviors.
3. Use techniques to reduce feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by unwanted behaviors.

Cost: $40

Allen County Public Library
900 Library Plaza
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

With so much happening in the world around them, our school-age children may have had more mental & emotional stress than ever before. This workshop will give out-of-school time providers the opportunity to collaborate on the topic of resiliency in school-age children and learn strategies that are currently being used to promote facing life's challenges with confidence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the steps to help children reframe the perception of failure.
2. Apply strategies to help school-age children develop resilience.
3. Apply strategies to help school-age children develop a growth mindset

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to participants

Indiana Youth are in crisis and the rates of depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicide are continuing to increase. The Bowen Center, Parkview Behavioral Health Institute, and RemedyLIVE will be sharing and discussing information on the current crisis that we are experiencing around youth mental health in our own communities. 

Clinton Faupel, Co-founder/executive director for RemedyLive
Laura Murphy, LHC, MHA, FACHE-Director of Outpatient Services for the Parkview Behavioral Health Institute
Siquilla Liebetrau, Psy.D., HSPP-Vice President of Clinical Services for Bowen Center

Indiana Youth are in crisis and the rates of depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicide are continuing to increase. The Bowen Center, Parkview Behavioral Health Institute, and RemedyLive will be sharing and discussing information on the current crisis that we are experiencing around youth mental health in our own communities. Data from the most recent community needs assessment will be shared, as youth mental health has been identified as a top need that our communities are not well positioned to respond to. Information will be shared regarding the statewide strategic plan and the local Youth Mental Health Task Force that has been created to respond to these needs. Additional information will be shared about the future of community mental health as well as the services that are available to respond in crisis situations, including mobile crisis response teams. This training is designed for everyone in the community who has an interest in being part of the solution around youth mental health.

Learning Objectives:

1. Increase awareness around the crisis that we are facing with youth mental health

2. Understand the statewide and local strategic plans to address this crisis.

3. Increase awareness of crisis services that are available

4. Promote hope that as a community we are responding to this need

Two (2) CEUs provided to attendees

Unable to attend in person?
No problem! Great Kids is partnering with RemedyLIVE to offer this session virtually as well! Virtual cost is $7.

Join Amanda Miller (Great KIDS Director), Jessica Gervais (Great KIDS Training Coordinator), Richele Groeneweg (LMFT) and Nichole Suvar (Author & Intentional-living Strategist) for a conversation around ANXIETY. These days, most of us can relate to the familiar feelings of stress, anxiousness, worry, and just feeling flat out overwhelmed. Often times, many of these feelings can intensify with the stress and pressure related to the upcoming holiday season. Join us in conversation around what anxiety can look like and how it often manifests itself, how we can help identify signs of anxiety and depression in the youth and family we serve, and what tools and practices we can use to help ourselves and others manage feelings of stress and anxiety.

Throughout the conversation, the following topics will be covered:

• Identify areas of your life that could be the root cause of your anxiety.

• Provide practical tools to help manage anxiety.

• Understand the positive and negative connections between an anxious individual and their family members.

• Identify rhythms that can be cultivated to enhance those relationships.

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to attendees who participate in this session.

A Data Presentation, Panel Discussion, and Roundtable Forum Addressing Youth Tobacco Use

The 2022 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey shows that commercial tobacco use among Hoosier youth is lowest measured in the past two decades, and e-cigarette usage is the lowest since 2012. Even though fewer youth are using tobacco products, there are troublesome use patterns including frequent use of e-cigarettes, flavored tobacco product use, and susceptibility to cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use. Hear more about the 2022 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey findings and have an opportunity to share your perspective.

Learn what tobacco prevention programming is available and to hear what school and youth leaders and community members need to support a tobacco free generation!

Two (2) CEUs available to attendees who complete the session evaluation.

This session will cover red flags and stats regarding human trafficking both in Indiana and abroad, how mental health challenges can lead to vulnerability, and how we as communities can work to end trafficking and provide necessary resources to survivors. This informational session will be presented by Jeremy Greenlee (Indiana Trafficking Victim Assistance Program) and Amy Johns (Destiney Rescue) and be followed up by a panel discussion with Special Agent Andrew Bonneau (Homeland Security Investigations), Cameron Shakelford (Safe Place/ YSB), and Ann Boyer (Juvenile Probation). Come learn how you can help put an end to human trafficking while engaging in a community conversation lead by local experts and advocates in Indiana.

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees who attend this session and complete a training evaluation.

Lunch provided!

Have you ever stopped and sat with yourself? Have you ever really paid attention to your thoughts or behaviors? You already know that self-image issues can be caused by a variety of factors, such as past traumas, abuse, negative societal messages and cultural expectations, and negative influences from family and friends. Tisha and Katherine will take you through clinical and practical tools to help the youth you work with to understand their thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors to celebrate their unique self image to enhance high self worth.

Two (2) CEUs available to participants who complete a training evaluation.

Dr. Lori Desautels

Adult nervous system states drive child and adolescent social, emotional, and cognitive well-being. In this session, we will explore how trauma and adversity impact the developing brains and bodies of our students and the powerful implications that adult regulation states positively create for a student's social, emotional, and academic growth.   I will share powerful regulatory practices for adults and students.   

This workshop is limited to 40 participants for a more intimate learning experience with Dr. Desautels.

Cost: $40 (includes lunch + learning materials)

Two (2) CEUs offered to workshop participants.

Dr. Lori Desautels

Applied Educational Neuroscience is a framework that is built upon educator nervous system, attachment, co-regulation and teaching ourselves and our students about their neuroanatomy.  We will explore discipline protocols from the lens of neuroscience. We will address specific shifts within the traditional and brain aligned models and practices. We will begin to understand that traditional discipline works the best for kids that need it the least and works the least for kids who need it the most. When we are dysregulated, our brains do not respond to words, lectures, consequences, or rewards.  Relational discipline is not something we do to children, it is something we want to create within them. Lastly, we will share new brain aligned strategies for meeting students in brain development  and nervous system states promoting lasting behavioral changes and the healthy regulation of our nervous systems. This new lens for relational discipline is effective and supportive for all students! This shift takes leadership and begins with regulated adult nervous systems. 

 Learning Objectives:  

• Attendees will deeply understand the neurobiology of behaviors through lecture, discussions and application practices. 

• Attendees will be able to translate, modify and apply regulatory practices in schools and clinical settings for staff, students and children and youth. 

• Attendees will be able to explain and summarize how the 4 pillars of Applied Educational Neuroscience define a new lens for discipline. 

Two (2) CEUs will be available to those who attend and complete the training evaluation.

As behavior issues in early childhood classrooms continue to interrupt learning, we need to find new ways to build connections and calm in our early childhood spaces. Dr. Herron will share definitions and data related to early childhood mental health and offer practical strategies for preventing dysregulation. As we begin to see behavior as not just a method of communication but also a symptom of underlying brain activation, we can work to shift our assumptions and responses to align. Dr. Herron will also emphasize the need for teachers to have opportunities to self-regulate in challenging moments and encourage leaders to consider how to support these opportunities.

Katie Herron, PhD has spent the last nine years as an Assistant Research Scientist with the Early Childhood Center (ECC), Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University before being named Interim Director in 2022. Katie has a background in Clinical Psychology and completed her PhD in a program that emphasized research. Her focus shifted to disability and early intervention during graduate school when her son was born with a disability. Since then, she has worked within Indiana’s early intervention system in multiple roles and has also trained families to become effective advocates. For the past eight years at the ECC her focus has been on improving the quality of early intervention and early education systems using evidence-based family-centered practices, including the promotion of high-quality family engagement, the promotion of high family expectations for young children with disabilities and the use of Universal Design for Learning. She currently serves as Chair of Bloomington’s city-supported Council for Community Accessibility.

This two hour training covers the following topics through evidence based research findings, demonstrations, and interactive discussion:

-Mental Health Problems and Mental Illness Definitions

-Differences in Mental Illness Presentation in Individuals with IDD

-Psychological Trauma Defined

-Trauma Symptom Presentation in People with IDD

-Neurobiology of Trauma

-Vulnerability Factors• Vulnerability to Stress

-Behavior Management

-Understanding the Causes of Behavior

-Attune, Validate, Co-create, Assign Tasks & Follow-up

-Top Down vs. Bottom Up Therapy

-Empowerment

-Including Support Staff in Planning

-Positive Support Strategies and Wellness

-Contributors to Problem Behaviors

-Verbal Strategies

-Crisis Prevention and Planning

-Nonverbal De-Escalation Strategies

-How To Promote Wellness

Two (2) CEUs are provided to those who attend this session and complete the training evaluation

($10 registration fee - includes lunch)

Kruse Plaza
5634 Opportunity Blvd.
Auburn, IN 46706

Four (4) CEUs will be offered.

Featured Keynote: Victor Pacini
Victor Pacini understands the delicate nature of abuse. Not only is he a survivor of sexual abuse, but his sister was murdered in 2001 due to domestic violence. His dynamic Erin's Law curriculum has been delivered to over 950,000 children and parents. He’s been referred by school administrators as, “The most unique and effective presenter of sexual abuse awareness.”

He is the author of Winning Within, There’s Only One You, Be Seen and Heard (Erin’s Law Content), Your VOICE, My Dreams, and has recorded two music CD’s. His ultimate goal is to help children and parents increase their knowledge and awareness about the topic of sexual abuse and domestic violence. He does this by delivering it from a fresh and positive perspective. Victor is the proud father of Mimmi, Angelo, and Luca.
Learn more about Victor's work >>

Featured Keynote: Deanna Hynes
Deanna Hynes is a survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of her biological father. While she found the courage to tell at 13 years old, she was ignored by her mother. At 20 years old, she found the courage to tell her husband. After disclosing, Deanna graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor's degree in Family Social Services. Since 2014, she has presented to over 250,000 individuals on sexual abuse. She is currently a national public speaker with Childhood Victories.  

In November of 2018, her father was convicted and sentenced to a total of 60 years for the abuse against Deanna's sister. In April of 2019 he accepted a 6-year plea agreement for the abuse against Deanna. While being a fierce advocate for victims and survivors, Deanna is also a mom, wife, and makeup enthusiast.

Featured Keynote: Stacey Gagnon, Director of Trauma Lens Care

Event in Partnership with the YMCA, SCAN, Indiana Department of Child Services, Children First, Prevent Child Abuse Indiana, & Garrett-Keyser-Butler School District.

Sponsored in part by:

Community Foundation DeKalb County
Wible Realty
ProFed Credit Union
Kruse Plaza

This series is funded by The Lutheran Foundation.

Wednesday, March 29, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Location: Virtually on RemedyLIVE

Two (2) CEUs will be available to those who attend and complete a session evaluation.

ATTENDEES WILL:

• Have a better understanding of how to work with youth who have experienced death and other losses.

• Understand developmentally how children grieve.

• Understand secondary trauma and how to navigate through its impact. 

Have concrete takeaways/tools to effectively communicate with youth who have experienced loss.

Richele Groeneweg, MS Ed, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist working very part-time at both RemedyLIVE and The Aberdeen Group. In her role as Mental Health Advocate at RemedyLIVE, she seeks to provide mental health support to SoulMedics, crisis helpline specialists who serve on a 24-hour chatline, and facilitates conversations surrounding mental health in organizations within our community through the WIRED Experience, desiring to break the stigma surrounding mental health. As a client-centered clinician at The Aberdeen Group, Richele takes an integrative approach to working with clients utilizing EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Restoration Therapy, Gottman Couples Counseling approach, Narrative Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  She is trained in EMDR, is a Level II Gottman Trained Therapist, and a Prepare Enrich marriage assessment facilitator.  Richele believes it is an honor to walk alongside others as they pursue wholeness individually or within relationships and is inspired by the courage, strength, and perseverance she views within her clients. Richele joins with her clients through securing a solid therapeutic relationship and encourages them to live more wholeheartedly. 

Cindy Maldonado-Schaefer, MS, MHRM has been working with the children, teens and families at Erin’s House for Grieving Children for fifteen years.  In her time, she has had the pleasure of supporting those families in their grief journeys to integrate grief into their everyday lives.  While it may sound odd, she has had a lot of fun doing so; reminding those youth, that it is okay to have fun in pain, feel joy in sadness and most importantly to not feel guilty in doing so!    In addition to working with the families, Cindy additionally has the pleasure of helping this amazing community become grief informed.  When tragedy hits school communities and youth serving organizations-Erin’s House can oftentimes be called in for support and educational guidance and assistance.   Cindy enjoys spending time with her 3 boys and husband; they can most times be found playing games, trialing activities for Erin’s House and always goofing around outdoors whenever possible. It’s never a dull moment at home for sure!  When she has a moment to herself, she tries to dabble in baking and is very much trying to understand this whole workout thing!

This series is funded by The Lutheran Foundation.

Allen County Public Library - Main
900 Library Plz
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Featuring Keynote Speaker Stephanie Solomon (Youth Programs Coordinator working in Primary Prevention with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

At the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), we know that promoting healthy relationships for teens begins with building protective environments, environments that make the healthy and safe behavior the easy behavior. The abuse and control embedded in teen dating violence is rooted in patterns that show up across the social ecology. In our youth engagement work, we aim to promote the healthy conditions that enable connectedness. Join us this Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention month (TDVAM) to consider how we as decision makers act in relationship to the power we hold, particularly when it comes to influencing the environments surrounding young people. This TDVAM we’ll explore the conditions that enable safety, stability, and nurturance for teens.

Event schedule:

9:30 a.m. Registration & light breakfast

10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Solomon

11:00 a.m. Survivor Story

11:30 a.m. Simulation

12:15 p.m. Lunch (provided)

12:45- 2:00 p.m. Community Panel

Three (3) CEUs offered to those who attend this session & complete an evaluation

Women's Historic Club
402 W Wayne Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Presented by Ben Rheinheimer and Tyler Huston (ULEAD)

Join us for a dynamic learning experience that empowers you to see your authentic self with new eyes, to reconnect with your purpose, and to gain tools to help you sustain a healthy and empowered life. In this session, you will be invited to look into the mirror and embrace the power in you that is dynamic, generative, and spectacular.

Two (2) CEUs to participants who attend and complete a training evaluation.

SEL: Understanding Misconceptions, Finding Common Ground and Putting Kids First

Dr. Sandy Washburn & Ms. Deanna Nibarger (Indiana University Center on Education and Lifelong Learning)

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been under attack in the news, classrooms, and communities throughout Indiana and our country. But what is SEL and what about SEL specifically is under attack? SEL focuses on creating inclusive, affirming, and welcoming classrooms where all people thrive. Additionally, social skills and emotional wellness– recognized as integral to all learning– are intentionally taught and developed. Highly effective teachers and mentors have always done these things. Dr. Washburn and Ms. Nibarger will offer practical advice in an effort to create better understanding of the goals and outcomes of SEL. They invite you to join the conversation in this session as an opportunity to invest in collaborative solutions.

Lunch provided!

Two (2) CEUs offered to attendees who complete the training evaluation

Great KIDS in partnership with Amani Family Services and YMCA Greater Fort Wayne

Location

Purdue University Fort Wayne- Classic Ballroom
2101 East Coliseum Boulevard
Fort Wayne, IN 46805

About this event

Presented by Peter Kirkwood, Cultural Intelligence (CQ®) Certified Facilitator

This workshop will introduce you to Cultural Intelligence (CQ®), an innovative approach to working and relating across cultures. Rooted in scholarly research and used by organizations like Harvard, Goldman Sachs, BMW, and Google, this engaging, practical session will give you a chance to identify your individual value orientation, reflect on some of the intercultural challenges and opportunities you face, and create an action plan for developing and applying your CQ.

Learning Outcomes:

- Self-awareness of how culture influences your interactions with others

- Understanding how to develop and apply CQ in yourself and others

- Effectiveness engaging with multicultural colleagues, customers, and communities

Three (3) CEUs will be offered to participants who attend and complete the training evaluation

The purpose of our annual ATNNI training series is to collaborate with experts in the national anti-trafficking movement in order to build the collective capacity of our local communities to support persons who have experienced, or are experiencing, human trafficking.

Conference sessions presented by Jane Anderson:

Building Human Trafficking Cases with Intimidated and Missing Victims

The victimization of survivors of sex and labor trafficking may persist long after the trafficking stops. Following the arrest of a trafficker or a victim's exit from exploitation, traffickers continue to assert force, fraud, and coercion against survivors. These intimidation tactics enable offenders to escape criminal accountability: law enforcement and prosecutors are unable to locate victims and witnesses necessary to build a case, or victims are too fearful or traumatized to participate in the criminal justice process.

This presentation will provide prosecutors and allied professionals with strategies for minimizing opportunities for intimidation and maximizing offender accountability when victims are intimidated or missing. Specifically, the presenter will discuss protective orders, courthouse safety measures, and strategies for bringing the voice into the courtroom through the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing and other rules of evidence.

Forced Criminality Case Study – The Perfect Plan: How Victor Rax Sexually Abused and Trafficked Boys in Salt Lake City

While awareness of human trafficking is on the rise, there are still blind spots that prevent law enforcement from recognizing all forms of exploitation. Men, boys, and victims of labor trafficking through forced criminality are often overlooked because they do not fit the typical depiction of a human trafficking victim. However, in the case of Victor Rax, Utah’s Attorney General’s Office was able to identify dozens of boys and young men from immigrant communities who were forced to sell drugs after being sexually, spiritually, and physically abused.

This session will use the Rax case as a backdrop to discuss the realities of labor trafficking through forced criminality, including how traffickers use grooming tactics common in both child sexual abuse cases and in gang culture to recruit and coerce victims to commit crimes. Strategies to better identify and respond to cases of forced criminality will be discussed through a detailed examination of the Rax investigation which led to his eventual arrest for sexual abuse and labor trafficking.

VIRTUAL EVENT

In this Great KIDS Community Conversation we will be joined by Nichole Suvar, Matt Konow, and Raphael Bosley.

From 1979 to 2009, the level of empathy among Americans fell by 48%. In a world screaming for acknowledgment of personal pain or hiding their shame behind closed doors for fear of judgment, compassion and empathy are needed but hard to find. The rise in materialism among Americans and the distraction caused by smartphones have contributed to the fall in empathy. In this country, we are more likely to hear the mantras of close-minded, self-centered individuals than ones of selflessness and empathy. So what do we do? We change our culture by modeling empathy for our children and the next generation. It comes through small, intentional moments, each built upon the other, to bring about a life full of compassion and empathy.

Throughout this discussion, participants will:

*Explore why empathy is important and why it is needed

*Learn how mental health correlates with our level of compassion and empathy

*Discuss skills to strengthen our empathy towards others

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to those who participant in this session and complete the training evaluation

Stillwater Hospice- Community Grief Center
5920 Homestead Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46814

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees upon completion of the evaluation

Cameron Shackelford, MSW, Allen County Safe Place Coordinator for the YMCA of Greater Fort Wayne Youth Service Bureau will define the unique population breakdowns of homeless youth, the overlap of homeless youth definitions, what resources are available, the disconnect between service providers and homeless youth population, and how to make services accessible for each population.

University of Saint Francis
North Campus Auditorium
2702 Spring Street 46808

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to those
who attend & complete the evaluation

Community conversations are at the intersection of historical trauma and ACEs. Getting to the root of a problem is a critical first step to addressing it. Unfortunately, when it comes to unresolved historical trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in communities, symptoms become the focus rather than exposing the root. This discussion will connect the dots between the impact of historical trauma on communities and ACE score cycles.


Learning Objectives

- Participants will discuss how protective factors are utilized to bridge the path to resilience
- Participants will explore how historical trauma and other rooted systems precede adverse childhood experiences
- Participants will consider the trauma of racial groups in the context of experience, response, and transmission

Thu, June 9, 2022
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
The Impact Center
3420 E Paulding Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46816

About this event

Presented by Jeremy Greenlee - Indiana Trafficking Victim’s Assistance Program

Reducing demand is an essential component of a long-term strategy to end sex trafficking and exploitation. This session examines the intersectionality between various forms of the sex trade to identify the potential implications for disrupting the demand that drives the exploitation that leads to trafficking.

Learning Objectives

• Gain a better understanding of the need for initiatives to disrupt the demand driving commercial sexual exploitation

• Review the intersectionality between pornography, demand and trafficking

• Discuss the impact of pornography on victims, consumers, and society

• Explore strategies and resources available for local communities

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees upon completion of the evaluation.

Being the Calm in the Storm: How to Be Right Without Making Someone Else Wrong Great KIDS Community Lecture Series

Presented by Rubén G. Perez with aha! Process, Inc.

How do people learn to remove themselves from unnecessary drama? What skills are involved? Is it talent or ability that sees them through the troublesome conversations at work or with family? Listening is not modeled very well in the media or society at large. Little attention is given to those who choose to consider a conversation from perspectives beyond their understanding. Come for a session that explores the mental and emotional state of being that helps put reason on the table during difficult conversations.

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees who complete the training evaluation.

Fri, May 20, 2022
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

University of Saint Francis- North Campus Auditorium
2702 Spring Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46808

This is the second session of a two-part series which will be spent applying all the material from the first session to real life scenarios that we will role-play out together. Participants will have the unique opportunity to engage in one of the most effective methods to learn and gain experience. By role-playing, participants are much more likely to remember the essential verbiage of de-escalation and will be more prepared to make quick decisions that will provide the appropriate level of support during a crisis. The role-playing exercises will help participants analyze how people behave in a certain situation, how to evaluate and predict possible reactions.

In this first session, you will experience an interactive behavioral management training course that will focus on de-escalation techniques to implement at every level of escalation, starting from anxiety all the way to physical risk behavior. The goal of this training is to be able to quickly access the level of escalation presented by an individual in crisis so the appropriate verbal/supportive intervention will be administered, effectively maintaining their welfare and safety. The long-term goal is prevention and/or overall decrease of maladaptive behavior.

The second session will be spent applying all the material from the first session to real life scenarios that we will role-play out together. Participants will have the unique opportunity to engage in one of the most effective methods to learn and gain experience. By role-playing, participants are much more likely to remember the essential verbiage of de-escalation and will be more prepared to make quick decisions that will provide the appropriate level of support during a crisis. The role-playing exercises will help participants analyze how people behave in a certain situation, how to evaluate and predict possible reactions.

Thursday, April 21
10:00am-12:00pm

PFW International Ballroom
Walb Student Union
2101 E Coliseum Blvd
Fort Wayne, IN 46805

Light breakfast provided. Limited seating available.
Two (2) CEUs will be available to those who attend.

Presented by:

Sandy Runkle, MSW, Program Director

Sandy is currently the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse Indiana, a Division of The Villages, and has been since 2000. She has both teaching and training experience, as well as experience working with youth and working in the Child Welfare System. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Northern Arizona University, and her master’s degree in Social Work from Marywood University. She has provided many trainings in topics related to child abuse prevention and currently serves on the Children’s Policy and Law Initiative Board of Directors, the Children’s Justice Act Task Force, and the State Child Fatality Review Team.

Learning Objectives:

• How to understand both behavioral and physical indicators of child maltreatment

• Reporting responsibilities

• Prevention strategies

• The consequences of maltreatment and violence on children during the early years of their development

• Problematic vs. natural sexual behavior in children

• How to integrate and adapt prevention activities

• How to incorporate national standards regarding prevention of child abuse and neglect

• Reporting responsibilities

Pills, heroin, and a deadly self medication trend is in full motion in our country. In a world where people fill their time with scrolling, eating and anything else that helps us escape discomfort, what is really going on at the root of our mental health and our culture’s desire to escape pain at any cost? Join us for this interactive event to hear from law enforcement, education, and the personal stories from two people who have fought the brave battle against addiction.

Participants will have the option to attend in person or watch the live session virtually.

Two (2) CEUs will be available to those who attend the session and complete the training evaluation. A light breakfast will be provided to attendees to who attend in person.

In this session, we will embark on a journey where YOU fit into the shoes of a basic police recruit and experience how we approach community members to create lasting relationships based on mutual respect and trust. We will discuss mental health as part of the modules that encompass the Procedural Justice experience.

"Procedural Justice and Legitimacy" came to the Fort Wayne Police Department as a result of the increasing number of homicides occurring in our city. Deputy Chief McKinney traveled to Chicago to obtain information on this movement and has been the moderator for the department since 2013.

Learning Objectives:

●Listen to and discuss the four pillars of Procedural Justice and Legitimacy
●Participate in table top exercises related to building community trust
●Discuss the concepts related to the community bank account
●Recognize examples of deposits and withdrawals in relation to the community bank account concept
●Discuss the historical and generational effects of policing in America
●Design a recruitment/hiring process through diversity
●Present results of exercises to fellow participants

Downtown Allen County Public Library
900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Meeting Room AB

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to those
who attend this workshop & complete the evaluation

$30 registration fee - includes light breakfast and a copy of the book Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

This workshop is limited to 40 participants

VIRTUAL EVENT

The stigma surrounding mental health is a barrier for those that are struggling. This training offers participants an opportunity to build their awareness around the topic mental health stigma by identifying common misperceptions about mental illness, looking at the impact of stigma on the community; and identifying ways to reduce stigma and discrimination. Through education, community participation; and personal testimony we will discuss the how and why stigma keeps individuals from reaching out for professional mental health support.

Learning Objectives:
- Identify common misperceptions about mental illness
- Impact of stigma in your community
- Identify ways to reduce stigma and discrimination

One (1) CEU offered to participants who complete the training evaluation