Autism Toolkit of Georgia
Autism Toolkit of Georgia
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This closed group is designed for parents and family members of Autistic high school teens. This group is limited to 15 participants for caregivers to connect with one another and share information.
Dates
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
Whether you are a leader, mentor, manager, or coach, you know that building relationships with the people you work with is key. And you know that the way you work with them shapes the way they work, and their own wellbeing too. Focusing on their strengths in your conversations with them can help build collaborative, trusting relationships that inspire confidence, nurture practice change, and unleash professional growth. This workshop series offers strategies you can use to further cultivate and sustain a strengths-based approach in your leadership, mentorship and coaching role.
In this course, participants will learn:
How to take the other person’s perspective to support a strengths-based approach
How to identify where staff start and how they are advancing in their learning process
How to highlight and appreciate staff strengths in your interactions with them
Strategies that can help you deepen your connections with staff
Facilitator:
Christina Mondi-Rago, PhD
Intended Audience:
All professionals who serve in a leadership, management, coach, or mentor role, including directors, supervisors, coaches, peer or team leaders, and education or mental health consultants
Course format:
2-part workshop series, 3 hours each, totaling 6 hours of training
January 22 & 23, 1-4 pm ET / 10-1 pm PT
Live Spanish translation and closed captioning available
Participants receive a certificate of participation
Relationships in special education and early intervention can be stormy and may be damaged beyond repair when three indicators of dysfunction dictate the conversation and the direction — Mistrust, Blame, and Shame. When someone feels they aren't safe with another, or the other is to blame, or they have let themselves down, we create the fuel for "Hurt People to Hurt People." From the first family contact through all of our dispute resolution processes, tools for Building Trust, Breaking Blame, and Healing Shame ease the fear, anxiety, and hurt, and allow us to build stronger partnerships to benefit everyone. This webinar focuses on conflict coaching conversations anyone can use to achieve these goals.
If you are starting out on your search for a job or have been looking for some time and it’s all a bit intimidating and confusing for you, this coaching course could be just what you need to demystify the process.
This practical coaching course will cover all aspects of job hunting by building your knowledge weekly, helping you identify action steps and supporting you to work through any worries or issues you face, with the help of a workbook. You will be provided with guidance, training, accountability and inspiration over 8 weeks to help you feel more confident about applying for, interviewing for, securing and keeping a job.
Dates
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 6
This “closed” support group is designed for Autistic women (18-35). Through this “closed” support group, women (18-35) can build an ongoing connection with a small group of other women. AANE “closed” support groups for women also give women an opportunity to voice their concerns and frustrations. It also lets them acknowledge hard-won and unexpected victories. Common topics of discussion are:
Masking/camouflaging
Sensory sensitivities/overloads
Relationships
Self-care
Empathy
This is a Support Group for autistic adults who are parents. As an autistic individual, parenting brings with it a multitude of unique experiences and challenges. That’s why we’re here! Together we can share lived experiences and offer support to one another so we can grow and succeed in parenthood. Parents of all genders are welcome, whether your child is arriving soon, a toddler, in high school, or an adult themselves. This group is open to parents of all genders.
Dates
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27
This event is to help parents with an Autistic child. If you’re unsure how to provide structure with kids out of school, need some self-care, or if you’re feeling isolated from other adults and the community drop into our community support sessions to connect with other parents via the Zoom online video conferencing links below. Sessions will be facilitated by AANE’s Individual and Family Services staff who know firsthand the need to maintain a balance for ourselves and our children when life brings the unexpected.
Calling all movie lovers! Join us for a discussion on all things movies! Each month we will have a question in the description that will guide our group for the evening. Bring popcorn and opinions.
Topic
TBD
This training will provide early childhood educators with care with guidance on the essential elements of a high-quality infant and toddler program.
Participants will gain knowledge in “Setting the Stage for Program Quality” and the dive into the 10 Guidelines for Operating a High-Quality Program:
– 1: Aspiring to Be a High-Quality Program
– 2: Addressing Culture, Diversity, and Equity
– 3: Supporting Relationships, Interactions, and Guidance
– 4: Engaging Families and Communities
– 5: Including Children with Disabilities or Other Delays
– 6: Promoting Health, Safety, and Nutrition
– 7: Assessing Children’s Learning and Development
– 8: Planning the Learning Environment and Curriculum
– 9: Supporting Professionalism and Continuous Learning
– 10: Administering Programs and Supervising Staff
Competency Area: Learning Environments and Curriculum (LEC)
To register for this training, please email Mercedes Williams at Mwilliams@ccrcca.org and provide your full name, and ECE Workforce Registry ID number along with the title of the training.
The Touchpoints Approach can be integrated into mental health clinical therapeutic theory and practice, as well as into developmental evaluation and therapeutic services. This training applies Touchpoints to help providers nurture strengths-based collaborative partnerships with families especially when families are affected by children’s special needs.
Brazelton Touchpoints has proven to improve provider and parent knowledge of child development, reduce parental stress, and enhance collaborative family-provider partnerships in service of healthier family-child relationships. Touchpoints implements a deep understanding of children’s behavior as a primary family engagement and treatment strategy by anticipating known periods of increased stress in family functioning that are associated with developmental processes. Touchpoints employs developmental-relational care to effectively manage behavioral, emotional, or relational concerns that might arise about a child.
In this training, participants practice strengths-based strategies to nurture collaborative partnerships with families in service of emotional well-being and parental competence. They also gain knowledge of theory and practice in delivering culturally-humble, relationship-based, developmentally-informed psychotherapeutic services. While Brazelton Touchpoints is a preventive model of care, this adaptation for mental health and developmental clinicians incorporates its theory and practice into intervention and treatment, taking into account effects of trauma and healing upon development and family functioning. Touchpoints is designed to complement existing psychotherapeutic skills to enhance diverse clinical orientations and techniques. These may include infant and early childhood mental health dyadic and family systems, child-parent psychotherapy, interpersonal and psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, parent guidance, and developmental play therapy.
Course format: This course consists 28 training hours including six monthly one-hour virtual reflective practice sessions. Each of the five modules takes about five hours to complete, and includes a live, interactive Zoom session, assignments for independent practice, and online discussion. Attendance is required at all live sessions. Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate. This course is approved for 20.25 Continuing Education Credits for physicians, nurses, social workers, and psychologists. Learn more.
Session Dates and Times: Live sessions are on Mondays, 12-4 pm ET / 9 am – 1 pm PT
01/27/2025
02/03/2025
02/10/2025
02/24/2025
03/03/2025
03/10/2025
The live sessions will be followed by six monthly Reflective Practice calls; the schedule will be set prior to the end of the main training.
What you will learn:
Strategies for building partnerships with parents that promote family strengths and emphasize preventive emotional health as well as therapeutic healing
Techniques for integrating strengths-based attitudes and relationship-based practices into therapeutic care for individuals and families
Strategies for strengthening parent-child relationships as a key influence on a child’s development and emotional functioning
How to understand the processes of child development that create stress and conflict within families and how these offer opportunities for deepened relationship and healing
Treatment techniques to address the impact of trauma and adversity within and upon the developmental process
A framework to understand why children’s behavior can sometimes be challenging and confusing
Techniques for talking with families about child development concerns
How to actively listen to families and collaboratively solve problems related to child development or a child-family relationship
Number of participants:
Minimum of 10
Maximum of 20
While many colleges offer programs and services for Autistic students and other types of learning differences, they do not necessarily cater to all types of neurodiversity. Come to this workshop to learn about what support is offered in higher education for the Neurodivergent learner. This workshop might help you to make decisions about your further education goals.
*Please note that this event will be recorded. The recording will be sent out to registrants a few days after the live event and participants can watch the recording for up to 30 days.
Join us monthly for an open support group that offers Autistic women, age 50+ an opportunity to come together to explore issues such as:
Receiving a diagnosis later in life
Masking and Camouflaging
Finding Support; Building and Maintaining Relationships
Challenges Post Menopause; Decline of Executive Functioning
Mid-Life Identity
Managing Stress and Coping Strategies
Self-Care
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