September 26, 2019 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Trainers: Abby Maitland, LCSW & Jenny Lozano-Rivera, LCSW
Price: $100*

New Jersey social workers will receive 6 Clinical & Social and Cultural Competence CE credits for participating in this course.

*Workshop price includes a copy of “Transforming the Intense Child Workbook” by Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach®.

This workshop will identify how best efforts may actually fuel the fire of challenging behavior and provide strategies for creating richer social emotional connections with children, with a special focus on implementing NHA within different contexts, to include culture and trauma experiences.

The Nurtured Heart Approach® will identify how best efforts may actually fuel the fire of challenging behavior and provide strategies for creating richer social emotional connections with children, with a special focus on implementing NHA within different contexts, to include culture and trauma experiences. This workshop is an excellent resource for any adult working with children and families in any setting in order to learn the core principals of the Nurtured Heart Approach. This workshop provides a full presentation of the core methodologies, allow opportunities to practice the skills and explore the concepts within small group activities throughout the training. Upon completion of the 6 hour, training you will be able to present, reteach, and role model the approach with families and children. Most treatment approaches, designed for the average child, stretch beyond their capacity when applied to challenging children. Traditional behavior management approaches can easily backfire with highly intense, challenging children, despite the best of intentions. Learn how hundreds of schools, families, teachers, healthcare professionals, social workers, and juvenile justice professionals who are seeking successful, early intervention techniques with children are successfully implementing NHA.

This workshop will be co-facilitated with a Hispanic bilingual trainer/presenter who is fluent in Spanish and each core concept of NHA will be explored within the context of how to effectively implement, communicate and translate the concepts, terminology and strategies with Hispanic children and families.

For questions about registration and continuing education, please contact Kyla Smith at KylaS@CarePlusNJ.org or (201) 265-8200 ext. 5228.

Abby Maitland, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey, New York and Ohio. Abby is a trauma informed clinical specialist and has a long history of providing professional workshops to youth serving organizations on a variety of mental health topics. As Lead Trauma Trainer at the newly created Bergen Trauma Treatment Center at CarePlus NJ, Ms. Maitland also has extensive experience as a treatment provider for children and adolescents in residential treatment, foster care,  school setting and involved with the juvenile justice system. In addition, she works at the Child Trauma Academy as a certified clinician in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics for several years and is currently providing mentor ship in implementing a trauma informed developmentally sensitive approach to clinical problem solving to OWLAG, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

Jenny Lozano-Rivera, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey. Her experience includes case management, legal advocacy for domestic violence court cases, in-home in-community counseling for youth, biopsychosocial assessments for youth, psychological evaluations for adults, clinical coordination for supportive housing caseworkers, director of community support services, and clinical supervisor for in home clinicians. As Program Manager for Children’s Mobile Response & Stabilization Services at CarePlus NJ, she focuses on youth and adults who are experiencing or have survived domestic violence, sexual trauma, or have been diagnosed with mental health. She is also fluent in both written and verbal in the English and Spanish.