Community Resilience Workshops

• The truth about marijuana
• Healthy family relationships through changing times and life cycle stages
• Exploring my family heritage, and legacy
• Understanding addiction
• Families and addiction
• Adolescents and young adults struggling with substance abuse and/or process addictions
• Prevention and early recognition of children, adolescents, and young adults at risk
• The challenge of mental illness and what families can do to help
• Understanding the challenge of multiple diagnosis, e.g., addiction and mental illness, and/or other chronic or life threatening illness.
• Overcoming trauma and loss
• How families can help: ARISE® Comprehensive Care with Intervention adolescents and young adult
• Families and chronic/relapsing illness
• Why do I feel that I’m “living with a stranger?” Families and Traumatic Brain Injury or Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI and MTBI)
• Coming out: Am I gay, lesbian, transgender?
• Helping one’s child adjust to gender identity differences
• Veterans and families: maintaining healthy family relationships

Working with First Responders and their Families

This may be provided as a workshop, or as a course for First Responders and their families. First Responders include, for example, firefighters, police, hostage negotiators, ambulance and EMT personnel, National Guard.

• Dealing with ongoing and repetitive crisis
• Dealing with the Prevention and early recognition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in First Responder and in family members
• Identifying triggers in First Responders and family members
• Family of Origin work with the professionals and paraprofessional
• Family of Origin work with the First Responders and their families
• Psycho-education about addiction and the family (substance and process)
• The danger and challenges of medication for First Responder and family
• The challenge of rapidly changing roles and responsibilities between work and home (First Responder and family members)
• Family Life Education (development and life cycle stages, coping with major transitions, dealing with injury and loss, learning to play, learning to celebrate, learning to grieve)
• Life Skills for all family members
• Experiential exercises on:
  • Making life and death decisions
  • Dealing with challenging authority relationships and possible dangers imposed
  • Conflict around roles and responsibilities in the family