Training & Workshops

I am proud to having concentrated in Social Group Work at Hunter College School of Social Work, a branch of the social work profession with roots in the settlement house movement.  Group Workers are trained to lead group experiences with sensitivity to how groups develop, with skill in delivering content in engaging ways, with facility in eliciting the best thinking of all, and with the intention to foster the multiple helping relationships available when the group itself becomes the primary source of change. In my career in school- and community-based settings, I have designed and implemented hundreds of trainings and groups on diverse topics; in therapeutic, youth development and professional settings; and engaging children, adolescents, young adults and adults. 

I am prepared to design and implement stand-alone or multi-session workshops and trainings for youth-serving professionals, teachers, parents and young people on a range of topics including building cultures of safety in child care and camp settings; child and youth development; addressing vicarious trauma for youth-and-family serving professionals; the professional use of self and ethical boundaries in social work and youth work settings; group and behavior management; exploring becoming an adoptive parent; and more. I am certified by the Suicide Prevention Center of New York as a trainer in Creating Suicide Safety in Schools. Please ask about other topics related to children, youth and families for diverse audiences.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air,

until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

JANE ADDAMS, Twenty Years at Hull-House