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Attention Parents. 1 more week to register for Parent University. It’s this Saturday November 2nd at Schaghticoke Middle School 9:00am-2:00pm.

Today’s workshop highlight is:

The Teen Toolbox: Building Strong Relationships: Strategies to help you and your teen survive and thrive.

This workshop is for anyone who is engaged in the process of raising, nurturing and educating teens and tweens. The Tool Box offers hands on, easy to understand, practical strategies used by many therapists to help parents, mentors and teachers navigate their relationships with teenagers. Today’s teens live in a very complicated world, and that makes parenting and teaching them more complicated too. Parents, caregivers and teachers need simple ways of doing the day-to-day difficult things. The Tool Box is intended to coach adults who live and work with adolescents, in such a way that the adults survive and the kids thrive. It will allow people to build successful, strong and positive relationships with the adolescents in their lives
Presented by: Karren Garrity, LPC
Bio/Expertise: Karren Garrity earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her Master of Science in Counseling from Western Connecticut State University. In 1998 she became a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor. Ms. Garrity has a private practice in Kent, Connecticut where she has been working with children and adolescents as well as individual adults and families. She has also facilitated psycho-educational groups in schools. Ms. Garrity leads workshops on parenting, conflict resolution, healthy choices and adolescent orientation seminars for high school teachers.
Ms. Garrity lives in Kent, CT with her husband Chris and their three daughters; Roxanne, Rachel and Hazel. She is actively involved in the community and has served on the Board of Selectmen, Chaired the Kent Board of Education, the Kent Energy & Environmental Task Force and the Kent Education & Learning Foundation.

Is it ADHD? Sorting out fact from fiction in the search for help for your child

Description: There’s no blood test for ADHD: Hear from local pediatrician, Evan Hack, M.D. about misconceptions and truths about evaluating children for ADHD and other school related problems. Hear about look-alikes, other possible causes for attention problems and academic difficulties. Dr. Hack helps parents sort fact from fiction.

Presenter: Evan Hack, M.D.
Bio: Dr. Evan Hack started Candlewood Valley Pediatrics with his wife, Dr. Diane D’Isidori in 1988. He attended Albany Medical College and completed his pediatric internship and residency at the Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children at Tufts- New England Medical Center.
Dr. Hack is Board Certified in Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He enjoys caring for children of all ages with particular interests in ADHD, Learning Disorders, children’s mental health, nutrition, and obesity prevention and treatment. Dr. Hack is . He has served as the Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at New Milford Hospital and is now immediate past President of the New Milford Hospital Medical Staff. He also serves as the School Medical Advisor for the New Milford public schools and is a member of the School Health Committee of the Connecticut chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He also volunteers his time at the New Milford VNA’s Well Child Clinic.
Dr. Hack lives in New Milford with his wife and two sons. He enjoys skiing, sailing , biking, cooking and playing the guitar.

Saturday November 2, 2013
9:00-2:00
Schaghticoke Middle School
Free Childcare and Lunch for registered participants

Presenter: Allison Fulton
Allison became the Executive Director of HVCASA in June 2002. Since then, she has been guiding and assisting prevention activities throughout the 22 towns in the northwest corner of Connecticut. Allison also serves on a variety of state level committees and boards including the CT Prevention Network, CT State Board of Mental Health & Addiction Services, CT SPF-SIG Advisory Board & Statewide Community Readiness Committee, Danbury Rotary Club, Western CT State University Alcohol Task Force, and the Brookfield Craft Center. She also serves on the Western CT Positive Discipline board and enjoys being a certified parent educator. Allison currently resides in Warren but spent 18 years living in Brookfield. She’s the proud mother of four ranging in age from 19-28 years old and, the proud grandmother of 6 month old baby, Hayden.

#1. Title: Parenting with Positive Discipline:
Description: Are you ready to stop nagging, yelling and lecturing? Find out how positive discipline works to encourage cooperation, self-sufficiency, and respectful relationships. Children who feel better, do better: Come learn parenting tools to help you and your children feel better and do better.

#2. Title: QPR: Suicide Prevention Training
Description: QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. Become a QPR gatekeeper in this one hour workshop.