A Series of Staff workshops
In collaboration with TELL, we will be hosting online Staff Seminars for the staff working in the children's homes today. This will run for the first quarter.
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A Series of workshop
for the children’s home staff and directors: January through March 2021 Presented by TELL
1. For staff:
Goals
● Provide opportunities for gaining knowledge on how to take care of your own mental
health
● Provide opportunities for learning how to care the traumatized children more
effectively
Objective
- Obtaining stress management skills
- Obtaining anger management skills
- Learning signs to be able to identify burning-out and compassionate fatigue
- Learning effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Learning how to identify the children’s’ needs from presenting behaviors
- Taking time to consider work-life balance
2. For directors/managers (encho)
In order to cover and address the complex needs of the children's home directors, this workshop will be formulated based on a questionnaire to directors.
Goals
● Provide opportunities for gaining knowledge on how to identify at-risk staff ●
Objective
- Learning how to communicate at-risk staff and connect to services -
3. Workshop delivery
a. Through on-line live presentations and Q & A (90 min).
b. Through on-line recorded video presentations (70 min.)
4. Workshop schedule (tentative schedule)
Workshop
Theme
Live presentation
Recording access
1
Stress and Anger management for Children’s house staff
1/15/2021
1/20/2021~ 3/25/2021
2
Re-define your role as a children’s home staff ~ How the childhood adverse experiences affect on people and society
1/22/2021
1/27/2021~ 3/25/2021
3
How to read children’s needs~ learning from the Circle of Security metaphor
2/5/2021
2/10/2021~ 3/25/2021
4
Directors/managers training
How to identify the staff’s mental health
2/19/2021
2/24/2021~ 3/25/2021
difficulties, and how to create mental health-friendly workplace and agency culture to prevent turn over
5
How to balance work and private life starting from the new fiscal year
3/5/2021
3/10/2021~ 3/25/2021
6 Q & A sessions 3/26/2021 N/A
5. Introduction of the presenter, Kyoko Sonoda, MA LPCC
Kyoko obtained her master's degree in counseling psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2004. She is the Licensed Professional Clinical Mental Health counselor of the State of New Mexico, U. S. A., and works at the TELL Counseling Center since 2017. She has completed EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) training and various parenting methods, such as “Circle of Security”, “Theraplay”, “Nurturing Parenting”, “Child-Parent Relationship Therapy”, “Cooperative Parenting for Divorced Parents”, and “Positive Discipline”. She regards the prevention of child abuse as her life work and she is thrilled to provide this series of workshops.
