Brook Lane

Creating Safe & Welcoming Environments for Traumatized LGBTQ Youth
2024-06-20 08:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
Safe Place, Safe Spaces: Creating Safe & Welcoming Environments for Traumatized LGBTQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience trauma at higher rates than their straight peers. Common trauma experienced by these youth include bullying, harassment, traumatic loss, intimate partner violence and physical and sexual abuse, as well as traumatic forms of societal stigma, bias and rejection. Historically, professionals have failed to recognize and meet the needs of traumatized LGBTQ youth, leading to poor engagement, ineffective treatment and in some cases, perpetuating the youth’s traumatic experiences. To ensure these youth receive the care they deserve, providers need resources to create safe spaces and familiarize themselves with the issues facing traumatized LGBTQ youth.
Participant Learning Objectives:

Define the distinct traumas, including bullying, harassment, and social stigma, often experienced by LGBTQ+ youth and recognize how these impact mental health
Understand the impact of systemic discrimination and bias against LGBTQ+ youth
Develop strategies to create therapeutic settings that are safe, inclusive and welcoming for traumatized LGBTQ+ youth, promoting a sense of security and trust
Use inclusive language and communication styles, creating an environment where LGBTQ+ youth feel seen, heard and respected
Explore current research findings on trauma experienced by LGBTQ+ youth, critically analyzing research methodologies and implications for clinical practice
Understand the importance of establishing collaborative partnerships with LGBTQ+ community organizations and resources

This Program meets the Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement. (6 Category I CEUs)
Featuring:
Jason Manning-Beekman, EdD, a licensed clinical professional counselor providing therapy and supervision as the clinical director of Radiant Therapy Counseling LLC, in Burtonsville, Maryland. Dr. Manning-Beekman has worked in all levels of care, but most recently worked in Baltimore, Maryland providing individual therapy and family therapy to LGBTQIA+ children, adults and their families. He has extensive experience working with children and young adults, but specifically those processing their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Youth Mental Health First Aid
2024-05-22 08:00 - 17:00 | MD
Monotonectally whiteboard visionary strategic theme areas before an expanded array of quality vectors. Appropriately repurpose technically sound services rather than extensible channels. Authoritatively deliver intuitive services rather than enterprise-wide materials. Globally administrate enabled initiatives for integrated benefits. Interactively orchestrate resource-leveling infomediaries after progressive innovation.
Enthusiastically deploy standardized functionalities rather than process-centric core competencies. Appropriately disseminate holistic testing procedures via resource sucking e-commerce. Enthusiastically network.

Building on the Strengths of Young People Who Have Endured Hardships
2024-05-15 08:30 - 12:30 | Maryland Theatre, 21 S Potomac St, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21740
Potomac Community Services is offering this seminar in honor of their 25th Anniversary. Brook Lane is pleased to be a Community Sponsor.
The presentation will first summarize the three foundational frameworks that prepare us to develop young people capable of thriving through good and difficult times – positive youth development, resilience, and trauma-sensitive care. The program will cover the proven effects of childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences on the brain, body, and behavior throughout the lifetime.
This program will then introduce the essentials of delivering trauma care and offer a few strategies to APPLY these principles in our work with children and youth. The program will focus on the power of well-boundaried human connection in healing as well as the imperative of restoring a sense of control back to people who have been traumatized.
Finally, we will discuss the type of open, trusting communication that positions clinicians to reach teenagers and young adults. Then the resilience model will be discussed in the context of adolescent behavioral change. All youth possess strengths and their behavior is changed only when those strengths are recognized and built upon.
Participant Learning Objectives:

Understand the behavioral change process and how a strength-based approach combats the demoralization that can paralyze behavioral change progress.
Be better prepared to eliminate shame from interactions by focusing on building confidence in youth rooted in their existing competencies.
Communicate with youth in a way that builds on their existing strengths rather than undermines their forward movement. This objective focuses on shifting away from approaching youth with lectures and giving control back to people from whom it has been taken away.
Communicate with youth and young adults in a way that restores control to their decision-making processes.
Understand a stress management strategy that is designed to move youth away from self-destructive quick fixes and towards positive behaviors.
Understand the critical importance of well-boundaried connection to trauma-informed care.

Featuring: Kenneth Ginsburg, M.D., M.S.Ed
Dr. Ginsburg is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Co-Founder and Director of Programs at Center for Parent and Teen Communication.
His research over the last 30 years has focused on facilitating youth to develop their own solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them. He co-developed the Teen-Centered Method, a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology that enables youth to generate, prioritize, and explain their own ideas. Dr. Ginsburg has more than 200 publications, including 44 original research articles, clinical practice articles, nine parenting books, and a multimedia toolkit for professionals.
He also serves Philadelphia’s Youth Enduring Homelessness as Director of Health Services at Covenant House Pennsylvania. The theme that ties together his clinical practice, teaching, research and advocacy efforts is that of building on the strength of teenagers by fostering their internal resilience. His goal is to translate the best of what is known from research and practice into practical approaches parents, professionals and communities can use to prepare children and teens to thrive.
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Growing the Future Generation: Clinical Supervision Best Practices
2024-05-10 08:30 - 12:00 | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
This seminar will focus on the educational requirements for existing board approved supervisors to obtain CEUs in supervision for licensure renewal. This will include reviewing the Maryland requirements for providing supervision. The program will also explore the practical aspects of supervision from required documentation, notes and time keeping to billing and coding. Also included will be dialog on when Clinical Supervision crosses into therapy and how to create a legacy.
Participant Learning Objectives:

Understand Maryland requirements to be a supervisor of LMSW and LGPC
Identify the length of time supervision notes are to be kept by the supervisor
Share practical tips for recording supervision times and required paperwork
Understand when supervision crosses over into therapy
Identify billing and coding to avoid fines, delays and embarrassment
Define leaving a legacy

Featuring:
Mike Shea, EdD, LCSW-C, licensed certified social worker and the owner of Life Counseling in Waynesboro, PA. Dr. Shea has more than 40 years of experience in the field of mental health, working with clients of all ages across a range of services. He formerly served as the Director of Outpatient Services for Brook Lane where he provided oversight and leadership to therapists at multiple locations. Dr. Shea also has provided clinical supervision for numerous therapists in the Hagerstown area and maintains his supervision credentials.
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Spring 2024 Job Fair
2024-05-08 11:00 - 15:00 | Berkeley County Rec Center, 273 Woodbury Avenue, Martinsburg, WV, United States
Join us May 8th, 2024 from 11AM – 3PM at the Berkeley County Rec Center, located at 273 Woodbury Avenue, Martinsburg, WV. This event is sponsored by careeronestop. There will be 100 employers on-site as well as resume specialists ready to assist you. In-person interviews are available. For more information please call 304-264-6133 or email sheimberger@region7workforce.org.
