The Portland Institute

Mental Health Professionals, Early Childhood Educators, Early Intervention Providers, Maternal Child Health Providers, Infant Mental Health Specialists, Doulas, Midwives and Foster Parents are invited to participate in an important training this summer in Portland Maine!

Hand in Hand’s Parenting by Connection: In the Clinic, the Classroom and at Home
Friday August 12, 2016, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Are you a mental health provider, early childhood educator, or allied professional who would like to offer some effective connection-based parenting tools to the families you work with? Parenting by Connection is an attachment-based, trauma-informed program that offers parents and other caregivers a set of concrete tools to foster strong connections with children while managing high emotions and handling challenging behaviors.

This workshop makes use of in-depth case studies and engaging experiential exercises to illustrate how the Parenting by Connection Program can be incorporated into different professional settings and how parents can bring these tools home to complement the work you are doing in the office, clinic, or classroom.

No experience with the Parenting by Connection program is necessary, but if you have already taken the Professionals Intensive in Parenting by Connection we would like to extend a special welcome. This workshop would be a great way to see the Parenting by Connection model in action in a variety of settings and to connect with other professionals who are incorporating these tools into their practice.

Faculty: Maya Coleman, PhD Clinical Psychology, MA Special Education & Learning Disabilities; Judith Wides, MA Expressive Arts Therapies, MEd School & Counseling Psychology and Child & Family Studies, LMFT

Cost: $50

Location:
Abromson Community Education Center
The University of Southern Maine
88 Bedford Street
Portland, ME 04101

The conference center is fully accessible with free parking in an attached garage. The campus can be easily reached by public transportation.

For more information contact Maya Coleman at [email protected] or visit our website at www.theportlandinstitute.com.

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