Cost: $40

Allen County Public Library
900 Library Plaza
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

With so much happening in the world around them, our school-age children may have had more mental & emotional stress than ever before. This workshop will give out-of-school time providers the opportunity to collaborate on the topic of resiliency in school-age children and learn strategies that are currently being used to promote facing life's challenges with confidence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the steps to help children reframe the perception of failure.
2. Apply strategies to help school-age children develop resilience.
3. Apply strategies to help school-age children develop a growth mindset

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to participants

A Data Presentation, Panel Discussion, and Roundtable Forum Addressing Youth Tobacco Use

The 2022 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey shows that commercial tobacco use among Hoosier youth is lowest measured in the past two decades, and e-cigarette usage is the lowest since 2012. Even though fewer youth are using tobacco products, there are troublesome use patterns including frequent use of e-cigarettes, flavored tobacco product use, and susceptibility to cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use. Hear more about the 2022 Indiana Youth Tobacco Survey findings and have an opportunity to share your perspective.

Learn what tobacco prevention programming is available and to hear what school and youth leaders and community members need to support a tobacco free generation!

Two (2) CEUs available to attendees who complete the session evaluation.

Allen County Public Library - Main
900 Library Plz
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Featuring Keynote Speaker Stephanie Solomon (Youth Programs Coordinator working in Primary Prevention with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

At the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV), we know that promoting healthy relationships for teens begins with building protective environments, environments that make the healthy and safe behavior the easy behavior. The abuse and control embedded in teen dating violence is rooted in patterns that show up across the social ecology. In our youth engagement work, we aim to promote the healthy conditions that enable connectedness. Join us this Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention month (TDVAM) to consider how we as decision makers act in relationship to the power we hold, particularly when it comes to influencing the environments surrounding young people. This TDVAM we’ll explore the conditions that enable safety, stability, and nurturance for teens.

Event schedule:

9:30 a.m. Registration & light breakfast

10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Solomon

11:00 a.m. Survivor Story

11:30 a.m. Simulation

12:15 p.m. Lunch (provided)

12:45- 2:00 p.m. Community Panel

Three (3) CEUs offered to those who attend this session & complete an evaluation

Great KIDS in partnership with Amani Family Services and YMCA Greater Fort Wayne

Location

Purdue University Fort Wayne- Classic Ballroom
2101 East Coliseum Boulevard
Fort Wayne, IN 46805

About this event

Presented by Peter Kirkwood, Cultural Intelligence (CQ®) Certified Facilitator

This workshop will introduce you to Cultural Intelligence (CQ®), an innovative approach to working and relating across cultures. Rooted in scholarly research and used by organizations like Harvard, Goldman Sachs, BMW, and Google, this engaging, practical session will give you a chance to identify your individual value orientation, reflect on some of the intercultural challenges and opportunities you face, and create an action plan for developing and applying your CQ.

Learning Outcomes:

- Self-awareness of how culture influences your interactions with others

- Understanding how to develop and apply CQ in yourself and others

- Effectiveness engaging with multicultural colleagues, customers, and communities

Three (3) CEUs will be offered to participants who attend and complete the training evaluation

The purpose of our annual ATNNI training series is to collaborate with experts in the national anti-trafficking movement in order to build the collective capacity of our local communities to support persons who have experienced, or are experiencing, human trafficking.

Conference sessions presented by Jane Anderson:

Building Human Trafficking Cases with Intimidated and Missing Victims

The victimization of survivors of sex and labor trafficking may persist long after the trafficking stops. Following the arrest of a trafficker or a victim's exit from exploitation, traffickers continue to assert force, fraud, and coercion against survivors. These intimidation tactics enable offenders to escape criminal accountability: law enforcement and prosecutors are unable to locate victims and witnesses necessary to build a case, or victims are too fearful or traumatized to participate in the criminal justice process.

This presentation will provide prosecutors and allied professionals with strategies for minimizing opportunities for intimidation and maximizing offender accountability when victims are intimidated or missing. Specifically, the presenter will discuss protective orders, courthouse safety measures, and strategies for bringing the voice into the courtroom through the doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing and other rules of evidence.

Forced Criminality Case Study – The Perfect Plan: How Victor Rax Sexually Abused and Trafficked Boys in Salt Lake City

While awareness of human trafficking is on the rise, there are still blind spots that prevent law enforcement from recognizing all forms of exploitation. Men, boys, and victims of labor trafficking through forced criminality are often overlooked because they do not fit the typical depiction of a human trafficking victim. However, in the case of Victor Rax, Utah’s Attorney General’s Office was able to identify dozens of boys and young men from immigrant communities who were forced to sell drugs after being sexually, spiritually, and physically abused.

This session will use the Rax case as a backdrop to discuss the realities of labor trafficking through forced criminality, including how traffickers use grooming tactics common in both child sexual abuse cases and in gang culture to recruit and coerce victims to commit crimes. Strategies to better identify and respond to cases of forced criminality will be discussed through a detailed examination of the Rax investigation which led to his eventual arrest for sexual abuse and labor trafficking.

University of Saint Francis
North Campus Auditorium
2702 Spring Street 46808

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to those
who attend & complete the evaluation

Community conversations are at the intersection of historical trauma and ACEs. Getting to the root of a problem is a critical first step to addressing it. Unfortunately, when it comes to unresolved historical trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in communities, symptoms become the focus rather than exposing the root. This discussion will connect the dots between the impact of historical trauma on communities and ACE score cycles.


Learning Objectives

- Participants will discuss how protective factors are utilized to bridge the path to resilience
- Participants will explore how historical trauma and other rooted systems precede adverse childhood experiences
- Participants will consider the trauma of racial groups in the context of experience, response, and transmission

Thu, June 9, 2022
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
The Impact Center
3420 E Paulding Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46816

About this event

Presented by Jeremy Greenlee - Indiana Trafficking Victim’s Assistance Program

Reducing demand is an essential component of a long-term strategy to end sex trafficking and exploitation. This session examines the intersectionality between various forms of the sex trade to identify the potential implications for disrupting the demand that drives the exploitation that leads to trafficking.

Learning Objectives

• Gain a better understanding of the need for initiatives to disrupt the demand driving commercial sexual exploitation

• Review the intersectionality between pornography, demand and trafficking

• Discuss the impact of pornography on victims, consumers, and society

• Explore strategies and resources available for local communities

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees upon completion of the evaluation.

Being the Calm in the Storm: How to Be Right Without Making Someone Else Wrong Great KIDS Community Lecture Series

Presented by Rubén G. Perez with aha! Process, Inc.

How do people learn to remove themselves from unnecessary drama? What skills are involved? Is it talent or ability that sees them through the troublesome conversations at work or with family? Listening is not modeled very well in the media or society at large. Little attention is given to those who choose to consider a conversation from perspectives beyond their understanding. Come for a session that explores the mental and emotional state of being that helps put reason on the table during difficult conversations.

Two (2) CEUs will be provided to attendees who complete the training evaluation.

Fri, May 20, 2022
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

University of Saint Francis- North Campus Auditorium
2702 Spring Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46808

In this session, we will embark on a journey where YOU fit into the shoes of a basic police recruit and experience how we approach community members to create lasting relationships based on mutual respect and trust. We will discuss mental health as part of the modules that encompass the Procedural Justice experience.

"Procedural Justice and Legitimacy" came to the Fort Wayne Police Department as a result of the increasing number of homicides occurring in our city. Deputy Chief McKinney traveled to Chicago to obtain information on this movement and has been the moderator for the department since 2013.

Learning Objectives:

●Listen to and discuss the four pillars of Procedural Justice and Legitimacy
●Participate in table top exercises related to building community trust
●Discuss the concepts related to the community bank account
●Recognize examples of deposits and withdrawals in relation to the community bank account concept
●Discuss the historical and generational effects of policing in America
●Design a recruitment/hiring process through diversity
●Present results of exercises to fellow participants

Downtown Allen County Public Library
900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Meeting Room AB

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to those
who attend this workshop & complete the evaluation

$30 registration fee - includes light breakfast and a copy of the book Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

This workshop is limited to 40 participants

The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is more than just a parenting or educator behavior management strategy. It is a philosophy for creating healthy relationships with the people in your life. Originally created by Howard Glasser in 1992, NHA is being successfully implemented through families, classrooms, foster care, health care professionals, social workers and criminal justice organizations that are seeking successful, early intervention techniques. NHA consists of a set of strategies that assists children in further developing their self-regulation and has been found effective with children of all ages. It focuses on transforming the way children perceive themselves, parents, teachers, therapists and the world around them. In Nurtured Heart Approach® thinking, we believe intensity is a powerful quality that, if developed correctly, can propel children onto amazing achievements. When a child learns to feel great about their intensity, the incidents of challenging behavior dissolve. Though the approach was designed for the “intense child”, it is best delivered on all children. This workshop is casual and comfortable loaded with authenticity and humor. It will surely transform your relationship with children you care for at work and home.

Historic Women's Club
402 W Wayne St, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
(Located at the corner of Ewing & Berry behind
USF Performing Arts Center)

Three (3) CEUs will be offered to those
who attend this workshop & complete the evaluation

$30 registration fee (includes lunch and book)
This workshop is limited to 40 participants

CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) is a non- violent, safe, and effective behavioral management program designed to equip individuals with the tools necessary in assuring care, safety, and security within their organization. CPI training program techniques are attributed in resolving crises in 84.2% of the episodes observed and over a wide variety of diagnostic and functional levels. With a high success rate at reducing the likelihood of an escalated crisis, service organizations can benefit greatly by being able to serve the needs of their members and participants to the fullest capacity.

*May 13 OR 18*
9:30am-2:30pm
Historic Women's Club
402 W Wayne St, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
(Located at the corner or Ewing & Berry behind
USF Performing Arts Center)

Four (4) CEUs will be offered to those who complete this workshop & complete the evaluation

$30 workshop fee to register (includes lunch and workbook)
Each session will be limited to 40 participants.

Championing transformative rhythms of work and rest reminds us that who we are matters and what we do makes a difference. Learning how to “rest well” in the midst of crisis, comeback, and recovery reacquaints us with the peace and quiet our souls have tried to live without. When we choose to realign our lives to the motto "Run Hard. Rest Well." – we are prepared to advance into the world fueled and recharged.

Two (2) CEUs offered to participants.

Masks will be required when entering the building until seated. In accordance with local guidelines, seating will be socially distanced & this workshop will be limited to 25 participants.

The Pandemic of 2020 has ushered in a number of changes that are seen, felt, and heard in everyday lives. While many of these changes are difficult in general, children with ADHD face additional barriers that require extra support. This presentation will provide professionals and caregivers a review of the challenges that ADHD presents. More importantly, a range of ways to provide supports will be discussed, including keys for successful virtual learning, effective environmental modifications in the home, self-management strategies, and promoting success during these difficult times.

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Championing transformative rhythms of work and rest reminds us that who we are matters and what we do makes a difference. Learning how to “rest well” in the midst of crisis, comeback, and recovery reacquaints us with the peace and quiet our souls have tried to live without. When we choose to realign our lives to the motto "Run Hard. Rest Well." – we are prepared to advance into the world fueled and recharged.

One (1) CEU offered to attendees who complete the evaluation.

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October 21st 5:00pm- 6:30pm
&
October 28th 9:00am-10:30am

Treating anxiety in children becomes much more effective if you understand the sources of anxiety in the brain. Two parts of the brain that contribute to anxiety need to be considered: the cortex and the amygdala. While therapists and teachers often understand how to address the cortex, they rarely consider the amygdala. This workshop focuses how to recognize, understand, and modify the impact of the amygdala on children’s anxiety.

A copy of Dr. Pittman's book Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry will be offered to participants who complete this workshop. Participants are welcome to pick up their copy of this book from the Great KIDS office by appointment following these sessions.

Each workshop will be limited to 50 participants. This will be an interactive session that will require the use of your computer camera and microphone.

These sessions are currently FULL. If you would like to be added to to the waitlist, please send an email to info@greatkidsallencounty.org.

Appreciative Inquiry (A.I.) is an evidenced, strengths-based model that assumes all people, organizations and systems have something that works right – things that give it life and vitality. It begins by identifying this positive core and connects it in ways that animate energy within oneself, families, teams, and communities. Innovative solutions replace problems as one shifts toward noticing the positive core.  

Using A.I. along with Mindfulness & Self Compassion helps individuals and teams reduce reactivity within our bodies and systems. The purpose of this workshop is to reflect and BUILD upon one’s personal attitude and skill sets to use A.I., Mindfulness, and Self-Compassion to enter the new year a bit more refreshed with a positive attitude.

Vibrancy and engagement transpire in the workplace when people in helping professions run with passion and rest on purpose – routinely refueled, refreshed, and replenished. Too many have grown accustomed to “running on empty,” forfeiting their best self and shortchanging those they love, lead, serve, and influence. A Rest That Works introduces strategic, high-yield restorative rhythms that leaders who are vulnerable to passion fatigue and compassion fatigue navigate 24/7 from a place of vibrancy, strength, and joy.