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Learn strategies to encourage healthy workplaces, schools, faith communities, and neighborhoods. Gain a new understanding of the influences of the brain, family systems, spirituality, and culture on mental health.

Gain understanding of adolescent mental health in the context of community. When adolescents experience mental health challenges, their support network needs to be equipped. Receive tools for prevention and intervention that consider teens' social, family, spiritual, and academic lives.

Gain insights from both psychology and faith in approaching how we can parent effectively and grow strong families.

Just as our kids are evolving, parenting must evolve, too. Learn key objectives for the emotional and relational development of your child for each grade, 5th-8th grade.

What stresses do kids face today? Pressure to achieve? Social stresses? What stresses do you as a parent face?

We'll share strategies for effective discipline, communication, and relationship-building that teach kids skills and principles for healthy living. What are the key developmental transitions and stages and how should you respond?

Parents of teens and kids beginning college have to find the right balance - knowing when to step in and when to step back. The challenges change in adolescence and the parenting strategies need to change too.

Gain understanding of adolescent mental health in the context of community. When adolescents experience mental health challenges, their support network needs to be equipped. Receive tools for prevention and intervention that consider teens' social, family, spiritual, and academic lives.

Staff Training for Social Service Agencies Serving Populations who Experience Trauma

The Faith Leader’s Guide to Responding to Relational and Emotional Crises and Needs: We can care effectively by noticing the subtle signs of relational, emotional, or mental difficulties and by being prepared for the crises that require intervention.

We'll share strategies for promoting awareness of mental health issues in schools, developing a collaborative approach to addressing needs, and creating interactions that promote emotional and relational well-being among staff and students.

Practical tips for guiding behavior and helping children deal with emotions, treat others with respect, and fulfill responsibilities.

What is considered smothering and what is considered absent parenting when it comes to parenting pre-teens and teens? From homework to college applications, how involved do we get? What are our responsibilities and what are there’s?

The preschool years are challenging and important. Tips for handling common challenges of parenting preschoolers from tantrums to trouble sharing.

What makes your pre-teen and teen click? Understanding adolescence and the development of the brain goes a long way toward helping you maintain your peace of mind and know how you can effectively guide your child.

Mentors can help give children confidence, and help them face social and emotional challenges with good choices and resilience. Learn about the latest research into social and emotional learning and practical tips for encouraging the development of social and emotional intelligence in your mentoring programs.

Adolescent males have arguably been some of the most misunderstood people in the world of mental health and education. Here, participants leave with a new understanding of the adolescent brain, those mental health challenges common among teen guys and their impact on functioning, and the ways that an adolescent male views the world around him. This presentation aims to expand the imaginations of the adults around these teenagers, so that they might see behaviors in a new light and reflect on what to do about them.

Through the lens of faith, understand better how depression shows itself in the Christian church. This presentation works to equip church communities with both theological and psychological resources to recognize depression in the faith community, talk about it, and understand it with faith in mind. It also provides resources for churches to better understand when members of the faith community may or may not benefit from a referral to a mental health professional.

Spirituality and Religion, in the world of mental health, are often glanced over as important elements of multiculturalism. They can have a surprising impact on the mental health of an adolescent. This talk introduces participants to the growing body of research exploring positive and negative mental health outcomes that are associated with religion and spirituality in teen lives.