Sensory Night: A Hands-On Workshop for Parents!

The Vulnerable Children’s Ministry Presents

Sensory Night: A Hands-On

Workshop for Parents

Wednesday, March 8^th, 7:30-8:45pm

Willow Creek Community Church,

(In Guest Central, off the main lobby)

67 E. Algonquin Road, So. Barrington, IL

This highly engaging workshop, taught by a certified Learning Behavioral Specialist, will offer hands-on, practical information about sensory issues, how to recognize them in your children, and what tools you can use to help them.

• Learn how to make your own Sensory Kit with items around your home.

• Discover sensory tools and ideas that help!

• Take part in an exercise that will show you how it feels to have sensory overload.

• Meet “Domino” the therapy bunny!

DCFS Training Credits are available for this workshop

Questions?  E-mail vulnerablechildren@willowcreek.org

Childcare for infants through pre-K is available, and Awana is available for Kindergarten through Grade 5 at Midweek for Kids.

http://www.willowcreek.org/midweekforkids 

Workshop: Sensory Integration!

The Vulnerable Children’s Ministry and
Bethany Christian Services presents:

Sensory Integration:
Risk factors, warning signs
& what to do about it.
 

Sadly, children who have experienced prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol, early trauma, abuse, or neglect are at high-risk for sensory disorders. In this lecture, developmental psychologist and director of the TCU Institute of Child Development, Dr. Karyn Purvis, explains risk factors and warning signs for sensory processing disorders and offers practical interventions for parents and professionals.

 

*This workshop consists of a video and discussion facilitated by Alison Lamsma MA, LSW, from Bethany Christian Services.

 

 

  Wednesday, May 25, 2016
7:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Willow Creek Community Church
67 E. Algonquin Road, So. Barrington, IL 60016
Room: Guest Central (off the main lobby)
 
***Registration for this event is not required.
 
Questions?  E-mail vulnerablechildren@willowcreek.org
 
Childcare for infants through pre-K is available, and Awana is available for Kindergarten through Grade 5 at Midweek for Kids.
http://www.willowcreek.org/midweekforkids

Sunny Ridge Parenting Class

 

Risks and Realities of Parenting
Why Do Children Do What They Do?
Saturday, February 11, 2012

9:00am - 12:00pm
Sunny Ridge Family Center, Bolingbrook

 

Sunny Ridge Family Center presents

DR. DAN GRIFFITH, PhD

Clinical Pediatric Psychologist

 

Are you parenting or preparing to parent a child who may have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, tobacco or other drugs? While parenting certainly has its many rewards, there are also risks and realities which every parent needs to be of aware of. Come hear from Dr. Dan Griffith, Ph.D., a clinical pediatric psychologist, who will provide insights on the risks and realities of parenting with these challenges - and help us better understand why children do what they do. Topics to be covered:

Parenting A Child At Risk

• Developmental tasks for children
• The effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD)
• The long-term risks and realities the exposure may present

Managing Sensory and Regulatory Difficulties In Children

• Why do children do what they do?
• The role of sensory processing in determining behavior
• A model for understanding behavior through sensory processing and sensory/regulatory concepts
• Promoting successful parenting through helping children to know what they are supposed to do and to be able to do it

 

$20 Workshop Registration fee, ($40 for 3 CEU's for LSW/LCSW's)
 

Dan Griffith is a licensed clinical psychologist and has years of experience in research and clinical practice with high risk infants/children and their families. Dr. Griffith has expertise in psychological/developmental/educational assessment and intervention with children, parent child relations and parental effectiveness training, research design and implementation, and program evaluation. He has worked with a number of high risk populations including: domestic and international adoptees, premature and/or low birth weight infants, infants/children prenatally exposed to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD), children with sensory/regulatory problems including ADHD and autism, and children with learning disabilities.

 

Register Here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2733715617?ref=ebtn