Presenter: Heather Larkin, Ph.D. |
This educational audio-visual series will address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Focused topics offer flexibility to attend any of the webinars independently from the series. Pick and choose which webinars you want to attend, or register to attend the entire series. Following each presentation, registrants will have an opportunity to present questions.
Below are five webinars offered in the series. Please register for each webinar you would like to attend. Registrants will have an opportunity to complete a brief survey. A link to the pre-webinar survey will be provided in the automated registration confirmation email, which only needs to be completed once for any or all of the webinars in the series.
Please visit www.nyspep.org/webinars to access links to previously recorded webinars, as they become available on the website.
1.) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): Overview and Implications
Wednesday, June 01 at 12 pm EST
Click Here to Register Now
This 90-minute webinar will review research findings on adverse childhood experiences (ACE), starting with the original ACE Study as well as extensions of the ACE Study. Distinctions between adversity and trauma will be addressed. We will present findings, including the health and social consequences of accumulated adversity and trauma, and discuss implications for ACE‐informed policies and programs.
2.) ACE Response: Introduction to the Restorative Integral Support (RIS) Model
Wednesday, June 15 at 12 pm EST
Click Here to Register Now
Following a review of ACE research findings, this 90-minute webinar will provide a framework for ACE Response. The Restorative Integral Support (RIS) model is presented with key elements of ACE‐informed care.
3.) Supporting Parents: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Responding to the Caregiver
Wednesday, July 13 at 12 pm EST
Click Here to Register Now
Following a review of ACE research, this 90-minute webinar applies the RIS model for ACE response specifically to supporting parents / primary caregivers and breaking intergenerational cycles of ACEs.
4.) ACE Response: RIS Model Application for Community Capacity Building
Tuesday, July 19 at 12 pm EST
Click Here to Register Now
Following a review of ACE research, this 90-minute webinar applies the RIS model for ACE response specifically to community capacity building, with an emphasis on the power of social networks and peer supports.
5.) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) & Substance Abuse Treatment Implications: Developing ACE‐Informed Substance Abuse Programs
Tuesday, August 09 at 12 pm EST
Click Here to Register Now
Following a review of ACE research and implications, this 90-minute webinar focuses on breaking the trajectory from accumulated adversity and trauma to substance abuse problems, as well as the development of ACE‐informed substance abuse treatment programs.
UPDATE! Social Work CEUs are available for the series. The University at Albany School of Social Welfare Continuing Education program is offering 6.25 CE hours for those who complete all 5 of the NYSPEP Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) webinar series in full. A CEU registration link will be sent after the final webinar in the series concludes. There is no cost to attend the webinars. The cost for CEUs is $46.25.
To qualify, please ensure you:
- Register for each webinar in the series using the same name and email address
- Log-in to each webinar using your unique join link and fully attend each live webinar in the series
- Complete the pre-webinar survey and the FINAL post-webinar survey at the conclusion of the series using the same identifier (initials and date of birth). NOTE: The instructions have been modified: Moving forward, please ONLY complete the final post-webinar survey at the conclusion of the final webinar in the series, which will evaluate all five webinars.
- Retain all copies of the automated "thank you for attending" emails
HEARTS agencies only: When 10 or more staff sign up for continuing education, each may receive 20% Off the CEU cost. To receive this discount, you must provide all the names to Heather Larkin - hlarkin@albany.edu - by Tuesday, July 19.