Approved for CFLE Continuing Education Credit (3 Contact Hours/.3 CEUs)

Date and Time:

March 29, 2012, 9:00am - 12:30pm

Location:

University of Minnesota's McNamara Alumni Building, Johnson Hall (Minneapolis campus)

This workshop features Anne Gearity, PhD who will moderate a series of "conversations" reflecting a research/practice partnership. Panel members include:

• Ed Frickson, MS, LP - Executive Director of Mental Health Services, Family Innovations, Inc.

• Carolyn Garcia, PhD, MPH, RN - Univ. of MN School of Nursing, photo voice project with Hispanic youth

• Monica Luciana, PhD - Univ. of MN Department of Psychology

• Charlene Myklebust, PhD - Director of Social Emotional Interventions and Partnerships, Intermediate District 287

• Nimi Singh, MD, MPH - Univ. MN, Medical School, Pediatrics and Adolescent Health

• Antony Stately, PhD, LP - Director EAP/Mental and Chemical Health Programs, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Objectives:

Participants will:

• Incorporate research-based strategies into work with adolescents to mediate adverse events in their lives

• Reflect on diverse treatment and relationship interventions for adolescent populations

• Address the complexity of power struggles that provoke and limit effective interventions with challenged teens who present challenging behavioral responses.

• Develop strategies that provide adolescents with models for relationship interests, agency, and reflective functioning.

Target Audience:

• Grad students and professionals who work with school-age children and adolescents
• Child protection workers
• Day-care providers