Join Ardent Solutions for these upcoming events:
Motivational Interviewing Conference
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 9:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Cuba, New York
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based social change model that requires the clinician, healthcare worker, or other professional to have expert communication and listening skills to facilitate change without directing, confronting, instructing, warning, or advising the person on what they should or should not do. Instead, the goal is to approach people in a respectful and curious manner that honors their ability to make their own choices.
This training is offered through the Southern Tier Child Advocacy Center to all of the organizations and agencies on its Multi-Disciplinary Team and is now open to Ardent Solutions' Partners. The training is free, lunch is on your own.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 9:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Cuba, New York
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based social change model that requires the clinician, healthcare worker, or other professional to have expert communication and listening skills to facilitate change without directing, confronting, instructing, warning, or advising the person on what they should or should not do. Instead, the goal is to approach people in a respectful and curious manner that honors their ability to make their own choices.
This training is offered through the Southern Tier Child Advocacy Center to all of the organizations and agencies on its Multi-Disciplinary Team and is now open to Ardent Solutions' Partners. The training is free, lunch is on your own.
Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children
September 23, 2021 10:00a.m.-Noon Belmont, New York
Child sexual abuse is likely the most prevalent health problem children face, with the most serious array of consequences. In fact, 1 in 10 children will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. This means that whether you work with youth, are a parent, or are simply a member of a community, it is highly likely that someone you know or care for has experienced, or is currently experiencing, child sexual abuse. It’s going to happen whether you are prepared to deal with it or not – unless you stop it from happening. And the good news, it can be stopped.
Stewards of Children® uses real people and real stories to show you how to protect children. The framework of the training is built off the foundation of The 5 Steps to Protecting Children™. You’ll meet survivors on video who lived through child sexual abuse, experienced its immediate and long-term effects, and ultimately were able to find healing. You’ll meet experts who work with children and families, and confront abuse on a daily basis. Many of these survivors and experts are also parents themselves.
Space is limited to the first 25 registrants due to COVID-19 restrictions.
September 23, 2021 10:00a.m.-Noon Belmont, New York
Child sexual abuse is likely the most prevalent health problem children face, with the most serious array of consequences. In fact, 1 in 10 children will experience sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. This means that whether you work with youth, are a parent, or are simply a member of a community, it is highly likely that someone you know or care for has experienced, or is currently experiencing, child sexual abuse. It’s going to happen whether you are prepared to deal with it or not – unless you stop it from happening. And the good news, it can be stopped.
Stewards of Children® uses real people and real stories to show you how to protect children. The framework of the training is built off the foundation of The 5 Steps to Protecting Children™. You’ll meet survivors on video who lived through child sexual abuse, experienced its immediate and long-term effects, and ultimately were able to find healing. You’ll meet experts who work with children and families, and confront abuse on a daily basis. Many of these survivors and experts are also parents themselves.
Space is limited to the first 25 registrants due to COVID-19 restrictions.
The Cutting Edge: Understanding and Addressing Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Youth
Wednesday and Friday, October 13 and 15, 2021 10:00a.m.-2:00p.m. Virtual Training*
*Participants must attend both days for the full 8-hours to receive a certificate of attendance.
Self-injury is intentionally hurting the body (e.g. cutting, burning etc.) but without suicidal intent. Because it often looks like a suicidal gesture it tends to evoke fear and confusion. Its very nature seems to defy deep instinctual human drives for self-preservation as well strong social taboos related to self-inflicted injury. It is, after all, quite puzzling. Why would someone choose to cut up or otherwise hurt his/her body? Why would they do this in way that looks like a suicide attempt but then insist that it actually has nothing to do with suicide at all? How do we understand this, let alone effectively respond to it?
Learning Objectives:
Bio: Janis Whitlock is a Research Scientist in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. She is the founder and director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery. Her research is dedicated to linking science with efforts to support and enhance the lives of youth, especially in the areas of social and emotional health and well-being. In addition to conducting research in these areas, she is dedicated to making research accessible and useful to those best positioned to make a direct difference in the
Wednesday and Friday, October 13 and 15, 2021 10:00a.m.-2:00p.m. Virtual Training*
*Participants must attend both days for the full 8-hours to receive a certificate of attendance.
Self-injury is intentionally hurting the body (e.g. cutting, burning etc.) but without suicidal intent. Because it often looks like a suicidal gesture it tends to evoke fear and confusion. Its very nature seems to defy deep instinctual human drives for self-preservation as well strong social taboos related to self-inflicted injury. It is, after all, quite puzzling. Why would someone choose to cut up or otherwise hurt his/her body? Why would they do this in way that looks like a suicide attempt but then insist that it actually has nothing to do with suicide at all? How do we understand this, let alone effectively respond to it?
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the developmental and contextual factors contributing to development, maintenance, and ending of non-suicidal self-injury
- Identify key features of self-injury epidemiology, function, and recovery
- Describe vectors for contagion and spread
- Understand core principles and practices in effective self-injury detection and intervention
- Discuss implications of the above for development of protocols and intervention strategies Locate and use self-injury resources (articles, books, websites)
Bio: Janis Whitlock is a Research Scientist in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. She is the founder and director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery. Her research is dedicated to linking science with efforts to support and enhance the lives of youth, especially in the areas of social and emotional health and well-being. In addition to conducting research in these areas, she is dedicated to making research accessible and useful to those best positioned to make a direct difference in the
