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Upcoming Webinars from NACBH
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Thursday, February 26 | 2:00 pm ET
EQ2: A Staff-Focused Program to Increase Self-Regulation and Amplify Trauma-Informed Care
Strengthening staffs’ self-regulation skills and providing them with consistent psychosocial support are pre-requisites to delivering high-quality care to youth. EQ2 is a trauma-informed, workforce development program designed specifically for direct care staff serving trauma-impacted youth. EQ2 was created to support staff in building the self-awareness, self-regulation, and relational skills required to effectively deliver trauma-informed care; and help build the team cohesion and culture that buffers staff from STS and burnout. This webinar will focus on specific approaches to support staff wellbeing through the development of foundational self-regulation and relationship skills – particularly for an increasingly younger, less experienced workforce, many of whom are coming to these roles having experienced high levels of trauma exposure themselves. The webinar will explain the EQ2 model and explore implementation options. Participants will be able to download the EQ2 mobile health app, which staff can use to manage stress in real time.
Attendees will learn to:
- Identify the role that staff self-regulation plays in the process of co-regulating and building reparative relationships with youth.
- List two skills that increase an individual’s capacity to self-regulate and how these practices impact the delivery of trauma informed care.
- Describe how the restorative practices of Circles build staff resilience and build supportive cultures that amplify the delivery of trauma-informed care.
Presented by:
- Beth Casarjian, Ph.D., Co-Clinical Director of the Lionheart Foundation
- Jess Linick, Ph.D., Co-Clinical Director of the Lionheart Foundation
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Dr. Casarjian develops, implements, and evaluates asset-based, psychosocial interventions for youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems, adolescent parents, and the youth-serving direct care workforce. She is co-author of Lionheart’s Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life (PS); Power Source Parenting: Growing Up Strong and Raising Healthy Kids (PSP); and EQ2: Empowering Direct Care Staff to Build Trauma-Informed Communities for Youth and a principal contributor to the original version of Goldie Hawn's school-based mindfulness curriculum, MindUp. Along with research partners at NYU and MIT she co-designed and supervised a four-year research project for examining self-regulation with system-involved adolescent parents. She has been an adjunct professor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University and a visiting scholar at the New York University School of Nursing. Dr. Casarjian's work has been funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). To date, her investigation of the Power Source Program on the adolescent unit of Rikers Island remains the largest US study examining the impact of mindfulness with incarcerated male youth.
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Jessica Linick, PhD, SEP, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Co-Clinical Director at the Lionheart Foundation. She is the co-author of Lionheart’s evidence-based youth program, Power Source, and co-creator of EQ2, a staff self-regulation and support program. Prior to joining Lionheart, she was the Senior Supervising Psychologist with the Bellevue/NYU Juvenile Justice Mental Health Service and a Clinical Assistant Professor with NYU School of Medicine, working within New York City’s secure and non-secure juvenile detention centers. She has also served as Clinical Supervisor at Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail complex, serving adults with severe mental illness. She has written and presented internationally on topics related to attachment, disruptive behavior disorders, trauma-informed care, criminal justice reform, and the use of mindfulness within residential and forensic settings. Dr. Linick also maintains a private practice in New York, where she specializes in the treatment of complex trauma.
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Website: www.lionheart.org
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