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.