Trainings/Conferences for 2008

Liberation Based Healing:  
Just Therapy for a Just Society

This exciting one-day conference (8:30am-5:00pm) will be held at Rutgers University, Busch Student Center, Piscataway, NJ.

Seating is limited! We encourage all to register by September 1, 2008. Please call or email to see if your organization qualifies for our special group rates!!!
Feel free to distribute to colleagues, students, advocates, researchers, mental health service providers and listserves that can contribute to and benefit from this exciting and innovative conference.

Keynote      Enacting Libratory Practice through Cultural Resistance          
Panel 1     Transcending Racial Micro-Aggressions across Multiple Contexts
Panel 2     Beyond Empowerment and Advocacy: Accountability in Mental Health and Social Services Systems
Panel 3        Justice For All: Immigration and Domestic Violence Policies
Panel 4     From Cultural Competency to Social Justice (Interactive Panel)
Panel 5        Sensuality, Sexuality & Sex

See you October 3, 2008!!!


PRESENTERS:

Salome Raheim, ACSW, Ph. D – University of Connecticut, School of
Social Work
Chic Dabby - Asian & Pacific Islander/Institute on Domestic
         Violence/APIA Health Forum
Mimi Kim. MSW – Creative Solutions
Nicona Purwudee, MSW, Ph.D – Portland State School of Social Work
Asma Warsi, Esq., Boaz
Andrae Brown, Ph.D -  Affinity Counseling Group/ Lewis & Clark
Theresa McDowell, Ph.D - Lewis & Clark
Lisa Dressner – LCSW, - Affinity Counseling Group
Pilar Hernandez – Ph. D - John Hopkins University
Emmitt Gil, Ph.D – Rutgers University School of Social Work
David Bess, LCSW – Rutgers University School of Social Work
Carolyn Tubbs, Ph.D  – Drexel University
Rose Williams – LCSW, NJ Coalition for Battered Women
Maneesha Kelkar - MS, Manavi
Sonia Watson -Women Aware
Alan Green, Ph.D – John Hopkins University
Caroline Hann, LCSW – Institute for Family Services
Judith Lockard, LCSW – Institute for Family Services
Rhea Almeida, Ph.D  – Institute for Family Services
Mabel Quinones, Ph.D – VA Hospital, Puerto Rico
Rebecca Chaisson, Ph.D – Tulane School of Social Work

Click here for more information and the registration form.

Trainings:

The Institute for Family Services offers the Cultural Context Model (CCM) for individuals and families with Rhea V. Almeida and colleagues. Embrace your potential and expand your professional options as a social justice therapist!

100-hour training in the Cultural Context Model

• Offers you a practical, hands-on approach to integrate the principles of social justice into your own clinical contexts.
• Equips you with all of the tools – conceptual and clinical – to move clients from oppression to liberation.
• Teaches you to make deep therapeutic interventions while fostering community and social justice.
• Gathers hours towards licensure.
• Earns a certificate in the Cultural Context Model – Social Justice Therapy.

The training consists of three segments of four days each.
DATES: SESSION I – May 16-18; SESSION II – Sept. 12-14; SESSION III – Nov. 7-9
COST: $2,250
Please submit $300.00 by April 16th, 2008 to register for the training .

• For trained social justice therapists - refresh your skills and get an updated consultation on your practice:

Annual Training Retreat – June 6-7
For more information email us @ WeCare4UIFS.
LOCATION OF TRAINING: 3 CLYDE ROAD, SUITE 101, SOMERSET, NJ. 08873
COST: $600

• The Institute for Family Services is offering two AAMFT approved supervision courses as follows:

Supervision Fundamentals, 30 hours. July 21-27. Baltimore, MD*

Supervision Refresher, 5 hours.
-- Institute for Family Services, Somerset, New Jersey, July 19, 2008 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
-- Baltimore, MD*, July 26, 2008 (9 am to 2 pm)

* Baltimore location to be announced.

Please contact Dr. Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe at pilarhw@jhu.edu for more information on these courses.

Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Department of Counseling and Human Services, Education Bldg.
Johns Hopkins University
2800 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218-2692
(410) 516-7990

• Family Therapy for Postgraduates
The IFS faculty offers a cutting edge paradigm in social justice therapy. Students learn about all models of family therapy emphasizing the Cultural Context Model (CCM). This offering is not available on the web, as it requires a combination of hands-on attention and live supervision. There are added benefits of observing and working with senior clinicians throughout the training. Supervision for Licensure is individually tailored. TIME: TUESDAYS - 4:30-9:30; COST: $150.00 WEEK

• New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women - njcbw.org - The following trainings are sponsored by the Women of Color Coalition:

Cultural Faces of Men Who Batter: Exploring Gender, Class, Culture and Sexual Orientation Across the Life Span. - 2 hours - March 7, 2008. By Rhea V. Almeida, Ph.D. & Andrae L. Brown, Ph.D.

Prevention and Collaboration: From the Pedagogy of Mental Health to Liberation Praxis - June 11, 2008. Full day workshop. By Rhea V. Almeida & Andrae L. Brown, Ph.D.
Abstract: The historical roots of domestic violence activists have been contained and seduced by the legitimacy of mental health. This workshop will critique the institution and pedagogy of mental health and its hazards to battered women, batterers and their children. We will offer an alternative paradigm to healing --  liberation and action.

Conferences:

• WPC - The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege. Dr. Rhea Almeida is a frequently invited presenter at the Conference and will be a Keynote Speaker in 2008. For more information go to: www.uccs.edu/~wpc/

•UCCS Matrix Center’s Ninth Annual Conference on White Privilege - Springfield, Massachusetts April 2-5, 2008 - The annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) serves as a yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression. WPC provides a forum for critical discussions about diversity, multicultural education and leadership, social justice, race/racism, sexual orientation, gender relations, religion and other systems of privilege/oppression. For more information and to register go to: http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc/

•Workshop at WPC 9- The Constant Seduction of White Domestication: Exploring the Risks for White Allies to Abdicate to a Racist Status Quo- Nicona Pewewardy & Rhea Almeida. Nocona Pewewardy (Ph.D.) Social Work Education at California State University, Fresno. Her research interests include critical approaches to social work education; critical race theory; structural social work; cultural pluralism; strategies for challenging and deconstructing White privileges and other catalysts of structural inequalities. Her first book, Challenging White Privilege: A Critical Approach to Social Work Education, was published by the Council on Social Work Education in May 2007. For more information and to register go to: http://www.uccs.edu/~wpc/

• Psychotherapy Networker Symposium - Washington D.C. March 13th -16th, 2008 - "The Power of Relationship: From Isolation to Connection". Dr. Rhea Almeida has frequently been invited to be a presenter at the Symposium, and will present at the upcoming meeting in 2008. This year’s 31st-Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, will explore the nature of human relationship--what we mean by it in all its variegated guises, how we use it in psychotherapy, what neuroscience is telling us about its power to alter the very connections in our brains. We'll discuss what therapists can do to help people expand their notion of “relationship” beyond the immediate family and social network to encompass the broader world. For more information and to register go to: www.psychotherapynetworker.org.

• Remapping Sites of Resilience: A JUST Perspective - May 8 & 9, 2008 - Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, MD, the Institute for Family Services & Affinity Counseling Group of NJ. We are proud to announce a two-day therapy/policy initiative with the Just Therapy Team of New Zealand, on May 8 & 9, 2008 at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. This conference will highlight the interface of therapy and policy. AFTA members interested in attending this special event may contact Dr. Pilar Hernandez-Wolf at PILARHW@JHU.EDU. Space is limited. Attendance is free.

• Liberation Based Healing: Just Therapy for a Just Society - New Brunswick, NJ, October 3, 2008 - SAVE THE DATE!. Conference sponsored by Institute for Family Services, Affinity Counseling Group of N.J & John Hopkins Univ., MD. For more information contact Dr. Andrae’ L. Brown at Affinitygrp@optonline.net.

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If you would like to learn more about working with the Institute for Family Services,
please call us at 732-873-1663 or e-mail us at WeCare4UIFS@aol.com.

Institute for Family Services, 3 Clyde Road, Suite 101, Somerset, NJ 08873