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The Clinician's Guide to Helping Children and Families Navigate School-Based Stress, Services & Supports

CE Hours 3

About this live event

Children and adolescents sometimes face stressors related to school. For family caregivers, navigating the school landscape and supporting their students can be a large source of stress. Clinicians and other providers are often tasked with helping children, adolescents, and parents navigate school services and supports, and deal with school-related challenges and stressors. This training will provide a framework to navigate school-based supports, resources, and services geared to support children and adolescents, as well as family caregivers. In addition, strategies and tools to help parents and other family caregivers support kids in school will be provided. This training will focus on providing tools and knowledge to help kids and families navigate and advocate within the school landscape.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify sources of stress, frustration, and anxiety experienced by both kids and families as it pertains to the school setting.
  • List 3 strategies to support school-age children and adolescents.
  • Describe the school landscape of services and supports.

Learning Levels

  • All Levels

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Agenda

10:00 - 10:15am: Introduction and Overview
10:15 - 10:30am: Sources of Stress, Frustration, and Anxiety Experienced by Kids and Families 
10:30 - 11:00am: Understanding the School Landscape (School Services and Supports) 
11:00 - 11:30am: Effective Strategies to Support School-Age Children and Adolescents 

11:30 - 11:45am: Break 

11:45 am - 12:15pm: Helping Parents/Family Caregivers Develop Skills
12:15 - 1:00pm: How to Support Parents/Family Caregivers to Support Kids 
1:00 - 1:15pm: Recap, Concluding Thoughts, Q&A

Live event Instructor(s)

  • Christina Marsack-Topolewski, Ph.D., LMSW

    Christina Marsack-Topolewski, LMSW, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Michigan and an Associate Professor of Social Work at Eastern Michigan University. Her educational backgrounds are in Special Education, Social Work, and Gerontology. She has 20 years of experience supporting individuals with disabilities and their family caregivers. Dr. Marsack-Topolewski has published over 80 scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries on disability, family caregiving, dementia, and aging. She is an appointed board member of the U.S. National Task Group (NTG) on Intellectual Disability and Dementia Practices. Her research has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and ABC News Detroit and she also has provided expert testimony advocating for legal provisions to protect vulnerable populations-- the first of these was signed into law in Michigan in 2023. In 2024, she received the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Research Award for Research Excellence and the Arc of Oakland County’s Advocacy Hall of Fame Award.

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