This webinar will provide a backdrop to the recurrence of the farm crisis, new legislation to address the crisis, as well as strategies for addressing the needs of farming communities.

Host: Charles Griffin, MS

Charlie Griffin is an Assistant Research Professor, Emeritus, in the School of Family Studies and Human Services, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University. For the past 23 years, he directed Programs for Workplace Solutions, a project providing training and curriculum development in conflict resolution and mediation, collaborative work skills, facilitation and leadership development. He provides a monthly leadership development course in the US Army’s School for Command Preparation at Ft. Leavenworth. Griffin was Assistant Director of Kansas’ farm crisis hotline from 1986-1994,  Administrative Coordinator for Kansas' All-Hazards Behavioral Health Project 2005-2008 coordinating FEMA funded statewide disaster behavioral health responses, director of the Kansas Rural Family Helpline, a telephone based crisis hotline, 2001-2010. Griffin has a background as a marriage and family therapist, working widely with family relationships, family and home-based business management, change and stress management, chemical dependency treatment, dispute resolution and mediation

All training sessions are provided for free and registration is strongly encouraged.