NYSPEP Presents: Surviving and Thriving

~NYSPEP Presents~

Surviving and Thriving

Annual Fall Full Membership Meeting

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Time: 9:00am-4:00pm

Location: Parson's Child and Family Center, 60 Adademy Rd - Albany, NY

REGISTER HERE

Cost: $25

Plenary Session: SafeTALK

"Suicide prevention is everyone's business"

NYSPEP invites you to join Melanie Puorto, Director of Suicide Prevention Initiatives for the NYS Office of Mental Health for a 3-hour SafeTALK training. SafeTALK prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first air resources. Alert helpers know how to use these opportunities to support that desire for safety. As a SafeTALK-trained suicide alert helper, you will be better able to: move beyond common tendencies to miss, dissmiss or avoid suicide; identify people who have thoughts of suicide and apply the TALK steps to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, intervention caregivers.

Afternoon Workshop Choices

How to Find Your Voice and Be Effective:

An advocacy training with Jenn O'Connor, Senior Policy Associate for the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy.  Everyone is an advocate-whether in your own life, for a particular cause, or as part of your profession. This interactive session will help new advocates feel more comfortable and seasoned advocates hone their skills. You will learn: the rules for advocating versus lobbying, how to be a Five Minute Advocate, and who to talk to and how (strategies for talking to parents, providers, policymakers, and the media).

NYSPEP Parenting Educator Credentialing Orientation:

Join Judy Wolf of Cornell Cooperative Extension, Wyn Frechette the Lakeside Child and Family Center, and Judy Nordstorm of T.E.P.E Institute for the long awaited launch of the NYS Parenting Educator Credential. NYSPEP encourages Attendance at this required orientation for those interested in applying for the Parenting Educator Credential. This orientation will define the specific requirements for the application portfolio and qualify you to apply as of March 1, 2012.