Seven Session Interactive Training Series
Starts Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - Ends Tuesday, January 5, 2021
10:00am - 11:30am US/Mountain Time
11:00am - 12:30pm US/Central Time
The disruption in daily life due to the COVID-19 pandemic has created new and unique challenges for parents, caregivers, and families who may have already been coping with trauma and stress. Mental health providers have a unique opportunity to help support the mental health needs of these individuals by learning and applying new skills to assist in stress management and addressing trauma using evidence-based interventions.
This seven-part Community of Practice (CoP) series will allow participants to learn new skills, explore and understand resources, and practice therapeutic skills and techniques to support families coping with stress and trauma during uniquely challenging times.
This series is available on a first-come-first-served basis to providers of Region 8 states (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming).
Registration in this series will be limited to 30 people to ensure opportunities of participant sharing, engagement, and skill-building. If you are unable to commit to participating in all sessions in this series please defer your registration to allow others to participate.
A technology orientation session will be provided to session participants to ensure familiarity with the training platform prior to the first training session.
Laurel Kiser, PhD, MBA,
University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine
Laurel Kiser, PhD, MBA, University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine, is a Psychologist working in the field for over 40 years. She leads the Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center, a Category II Center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Along with a dedicated team of clinicians and families, she developed Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR), an intervention designed specifically for families coping with chronic and severe stress and trauma.
Vikki Rompala, LCSW
Rush University Medical Center
Vikki Rompala, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of social work practice and management experience. She has been an Affiliate of NCTSN since 2011 and was the former chair of the NCTSN Partnering with Youth and Families committee from 2007-2011. She is a trainer in the SFCR model and has assisted in training and implementation of SFCR in Chicago within domestic violence, adoption preservation, grandparents raising children programs and in an outpatient mental health center.
