Board of Supervisors - Mount Vernon District

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Mount Vernon Governmental Center
2511 Parkers Lane, Mt. Vernon, VA 22306
Dan Storck
Board of Supervisor
Community Event

Keeping Our Young Safe – in Mind and Spirit

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Date & Time
3/05/2018 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
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Location
FCPS Virginia Hills Center
6520 Diana Ln
Alexandria, VA 22310
 

You are cordially invited to our NEXUS 2018 Forum (3 contact hour credits available) Keeping Our Young Safe – in Mind and Spirit

Offered by the Advisory Board for the Joe and Fredona Gartlan Center in Mount Vernon 2 The Fairfax County-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB).
Please RSVP to Lainge Bailey @ Earthlink.net.

A Community Conversation about Strengthening the Brain-ways of Our Young: Their Resiliency, Challenges, Opportunities, and Interventions
1:00 Scott Brabrand, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Today’s State of Students K-12: Psychological readiness for life and lifelong learning

1:30 Keynote Presenter: Erin D. Berman, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda, MD

  • How to identify an anxious child
  • How to change anxious thinking
  • The science and biological roots of anxiety in children
  • How computer technology is transforming the understanding of anxiety
  • Current treatment options (medications & CBT: cognitive behavioral therapy)
  • Erin D. Berman is a Clinical Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her clinical psychology doctoral degree from Rosalind Franklin University / The Chicago Medical School. Her clinical training continued with attending the Boston Consortium of Clinical Psychology where she was a Harvard Medical School Fellowship recipient. Her post-doctoral specialty was in child and adolescent Anxiety Disorders at Temple University. Her main area of interest continues to be in cognitive behavioral interventions for children, adolescents, and adults with Anxiety Disorders.

2:00 Multicultural youth and gangs: Prevention, safety, & interventions with recent immigrants.
Facilitator: Edward A. Ryan, Fairfax County Gang Prevention Coordinator and Director, Intensive Supervision Program
Kate Reen, Youth Initiatives Program Manager, Northern Virginia Family Services (NVFS)
Meredith McKee Director, Multicultural Center & Youth Initiatives (NVFS)

3:00 Creating a community of hope, healing, and resilience. Interventions with multicultural youth and recent youth immigrants
Facilitator : Daryl Washington, Fairfax/Falls Church CSB (Facilitator)
Allison Lowry: Department of Family Service
Ashley Alexander: Fairfax/Falls Church CSB
Maria Genova, FCPS psychologist
Kerri Hudgins, FCPS social worker
Claudia Thomas, FCPS Family Engagement


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