Presented by Amy Jacob, LCSW
May 21 2008, Edison NJ
Who should attend? Guidance counselors, clinicians, case managers, social workers, child study team members, in-home behavioral health providers, teachers, parents, advocates, and others who work with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma.
What Will Trainees Learn? This workshop provides practical strategies for those who work with youth who have experienced trauma and may be manifesting behavioral health issues as a result. The presentation includes:
- Signs and symptoms of trauma in children and youth
- Types of trauma and their effects
- Neurobiological impact of trauma
- Life domains affected by trauma
- Promising treatment approaches and their core components
- Practical strategies for working with youth who have experienced trauma
- Vicarious trauma and self care for workers
- Creating safe environments for youth and families
This dynamic, interactive program will include activities, video illustrations, and small group activities, and discussions.
Location and Time : Holiday Inn, Raritan Center, 3050 Woodbridge Ave., Edison NJ,08837(directions below) Wednesday May 21, 2008, 9 to 1 pm., Continental breakfast provided
Fee: $85 per person
REGISTRATION: Please email sourcesforhumanservices@comcast.net to register
About the Presenter: Amy Jacob, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in Middlesex County, NJ with a career history spanning 15 years of service to children, families, and child-serving organizations. She currently has a private practice providing intensive in-home clinical services to adolescents and their families.
Jacob is also a Training Consultation Specialist for the Violence Institute of NJ as well as project coordinator and lead trainer for “Creating Safe and Respectful Environments,” an initiative through UBHC-UMDNJ funded by the NJ Juvenile Justice Commission. In this role she coordinates a training program for juvenile detention centers and state run secure care facilities and residential centers on the topics of mental health disorders among adolescents, crisis intervention techniques and suicide prevention. In her private practice she also provides training to schools and other community groups in New Jersey on these topics.
Jacob served as the Middlesex County Coordinator for the Traumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth Project from August 2001 through July 2006. The Traumatic Loss Coalition brings together professionals from schools, mental health agencies, law enforcement, clergy and other community organizations in order to identify and coordinate resources for school communities after traumatic loss events.
Jacob has worked extensively with children and adolescents as a clinician with University Behavioral Health Care’s Child and Adolescent In-patient and Regional Response Units. In this role she provided crisis intervention, evaluation, and ongoing therapeutic services as well as advocacy on behalf of adolescents and their families.
Prior to obtaining her MSW, Jacob served as a Policy Advisor for Children’s Issues to Governor Jim Florio of New Jersey. In that role she served as the Governor’s liaison to various child-serving boards and organizations, providing regular policy briefings and recommendations to the Governor. She also served as staff to inter-agency advisory boards and workgroups charged with streamlining service delivery to New Jersey’s children across bureaucratic government systems.
Directions to hotel: Holiday Inn, Raritan Center, 3050 Woodbridge Ave., Edison NJ, 08837, 732-661-1000; NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE (NORTH/SOUTH): TAKE TURNPIKE TO EXIT 10 AND BEAR RIGHT. AFTER TOLL PLAZA TAKE HWY 514 W. FOLLOW SIGNS TO RARITAN CENTER. STAY IN RIGHT LANE & FOLLOW THE CURVED ROAD TO LIGHT. TURN LEFT ON KING GEORGE POST RD. HOTEL ON LEFT
Restaurant: Have a delicious lunch at Harold’s’ New York Deli Restaurant next door
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