Conference Handouts

Sessions A and B // 8:30am - Noon

A/B-4 Bright Minds, Poor Grades

A-2 Violence Prevention and Risk Assessment: Roles for School Social Workers

Follow-up Handout 1: Risk Assessment (added 10/11/09)


A-3 Data Bases Decision-Making for RTI using Excel
(Please bring a fully charged laptop to this session.  No electrical plugs will be available.)

Session B // 10:15 - 11:45 AM

B-2 Stop the Meanness, Spread the Kindness

B-3 Innovative Behavioral Treatment of Selective Mutism

Session C // 3:30 - 5:00 PM

C-1 Successful Classroom Strategies for Defiant Students

C-2 Emotional Intelligence in the Schools

C-3 Where Politics and Practice Meet: Children, Families, and the School System

C-4 Health Professional Recovery Program: Protecting the Public...Saving Lives... Saving Careers

C-5 Cristo Rey Network-Changing Urban America, One Student at a Time

C-6 Social Workers Teaching Respect Through Literature

Session D // 8:30 - 10:00 AM

D-1 Special Education Law: Basics & Hot Topics

D-2 So What does RTI have to do with SSW's?

D-3 Emerging Identities: Transgender Youth in Schools

D-4 50 Ways to Use the Internet in Your SSW Practice

D-5 Language and Social Skills: Interventions for Social Success

D-6 Don’t Tell What Goes On Behind Closed Doors! Respecting Cultural Privacy.

D-7 The Power of One: Adventure Activities in Individual Counseling Sessions

Session E // 1:30 - 3:00 PM

E-1 Introduction to Pain and Stress Management

E-2 Supporting School Social Workers

E-3 Families with Children with Disabilities: Challenging the Grief Cycle Framework

E-4 R Time: Good Manners Lead to Less Bullying

E-5 Life Skills: Placing Due Emphasis on Social, Emotional and Character Development

E-6 Steps to Success: Moving Out of the Red Zone

Follow up Handout 1: Cluster and Prioritize (added 10/11/09)

E-7 Military Children in Your Classrooms: Why You Should Care! (Session 1: Deployment)

Session F // 3:30 - 5:00 PM

F-1 Provision of Effective Consultation to Professional Colleagues Facing Ethical Dilemmas

F-2 Empowering Teens to Make Pro-Social Choices

F-3 Reactive Attachment Disorder: Effective Interventions for Use in School

F-4 School Social Workers-Essential to Facilitating Parent Involvement

F-5 Identiication and Intervention of Peer Relationship Difficulties: Evidenced Based Practices

F-6 So, How am I Supposed to Teach Them That?

F-7 Military Children in Your Classrooms: Why You Should Care! (Session 2: Reintegration - Coming Home)

F-8 Songs & Stories for Kids, Teachers and Parents

Session G // 8:30 - 10:30 AM

G-1 Critical Thinking, An Ethical/Practical Skill for School Social Workers

G-2 Hope & Healing for Children & Families

G-3 Developing and Implementing Educational Support Groups for At Risk Teen

G-4 Self-Injury and School Impact

G-5 Project Connection

G-6 School Boards: How to reach Them & How to Teach Them
Follow Up Handout 1: Revenues Generated by SSW (added 10/11/09)

Thursday Keynote (Ross Greene)
Handout 1 (Powerpoint added 10/4/09)
Handout 2 (added 10/4/09)

Friday Keynote (Terry Brown)

Saturday Keynote (Amy K. Bolton)
Handout 1
Handout 2
Handout 3  (added 9/29/09)
Handout 4  (added 9/29/09)
 

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