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SUMMARY:From Conflict to Co-Regulation: Helping Parents Navigate Adolescent Emotional Intensity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by TPN.health and Financially Sponsored By BrentCare Behavioral Health\n\n\n\nThis presentation explores how parents’ nervous-system responses shape family interactions and influence patterns of connection and conflict. Participants will learn to recognize escalation cycles\, regulate their own responses during difficult moments\, repair relational ruptures\, and model healthier emotional regulation. Practical\, trauma-informed strategies will help parents respond with greater awareness\, flexibility\, and connection while supporting a more regulated family system. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\nParticipants will be able to: \n\nDemonstrate two strategies for repairing relational ruptures and modeling healthy emotional regulation to strengthen connection and resilience within the family system.\nIdentify and apply two trauma-informed strategies for managing their own emotional responses\, interrupting conflict cycles\, and supporting co-regulation during moments of adolescent emotional intensity.\nRecognize how parental nervous-system responses and emotional states can contribute to escalation or regulation within parent–adolescent interactions.\n\n\n\nTarget Audience\n\nAddiction Professional\nCounselor\nMarriage & Family Therapist\nPsychologist\nSocial Worker
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/from-conflict-to-co-regulation-helping-parents-navigate-adolescent-emotional-intensity/
LOCATION:Online Webinar Event
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:Digital Escape: Gaming\, Emotional Distress\, and Adolescent Development
DESCRIPTION:Presented by TPN.health and Financially Sponsored By BrentCare Behavioral Health\n\n\n\nThis presentation explores the psychological and relational factors that may contribute to excessive gaming\, including avoidance\, anxiety\, depression\, social needs\, reward-seeking\, and executive-functioning challenges. Participants will learn to look beyond screen time and better understand the needs gaming may be meeting. The presentation offers practical strategies for establishing healthier family limits\, reducing conflict\, and supporting more balanced and sustainable technology use. \n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\nParticipants will be able to: \n\nIdentify at least three psychological or relational factors that may contribute to excessive gaming\, including avoidance\, anxiety\, social needs\, reward-seeking\, or executive-functioning challenges.\nDescribe at least two strategies for establishing developmentally appropriate family gaming limits while reducing conflict and improving communication.\nApply at least two practical approaches to support balanced and sustainable technology use within a family setting.\n\n\n\nTarget Audience\n\nAddiction Professional\nCounselor\nMarriage & Family Therapist\nPsychologist\nSocial Worker
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/digital-escape-gaming-emotional-distress-and-adolescent-development/
LOCATION:Online Webinar Event
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:2026 NAMI Illinois Annual Statewide Conference
DESCRIPTION:The conference will provide a safe and welcoming space for advocates\, providers\, peers\, family members\, and community leaders to come together\, sharing experiences\, learning from one another\, and inspiring new ways forward. Through collaboration and dialogue\, we aim to deepen our collective impact and continue advancing NAMI’s mission across the state. \nThis year’s theme\, “Bridging Gaps by Reimagining Community Care\,” reflects an urgent and hopeful call to action. Explore innovative approaches to building stronger connections\, expanding access to care\, and ensuring that mental health support is inclusive\, equitable\, and responsive to the diverse needs of our communities.
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/2026-nami-illinois-annual-statewide-conference/
LOCATION:Benedictine University\, 5700 College Rd\, Lisle\, IL\, 60532\, United States
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:Protecting Innocence 2026: Strengthening Systems to Protect Children
DESCRIPTION:MERIT presents the Protecting Innocence Symposium 2026\nThe University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford’s Medical Evaluation and Response Initiative Team (MERIT) doesn’t just provide clinical support to abused children of the community; it also educates the community to ensure safety for all. \nLearning objectives:\n• Analyze the role of prevention\, family strengthening and systems collaboration in protecting children and promoting family well-being.\n• Identify indicators of child abuse\, grooming\, sexual exploitation and barriers to disclosure that impact child safety and outcomes.\n• Evaluate opportunities to strengthen organizational\, community and system-level approaches to preventing child maltreatment and exploitation and promoting child safety. \nEvent speakers:\n• Melissa Box\, LCSW\, MPH\, deputy director with the Division of Prevention\, Community Connection and Intact Family Services for the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services. Topic: Family Strengthening and Family Safety: Transformation at Illinois DCFS.\n• Patricia Lewis\, ESQ\, chief executive officer with Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. Topic: Strengthening Organizational Policies and Procedures: Preventing Abuse\, Recognizing Grooming and Responding Appropriately.\n• Dana Miller\, associate with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College\, Appleton\, Wis. Topic: Online Exploitation & Sextortion: Awareness & Response.\n• Stephen Mills\, speaker and author. Topic: It Takes a Village: How Communities Enable Child Sex Predators. \nProfessionals who work with children and families\, including physicians\, mental health professionals\, educators\, school personnel\, law enforcement\, social workers\, child advocacy professionals\, multidisciplinary team members and representatives from child-serving organizations are invited to attend this year’s event. University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford students\, residents\, staff\, and faculty are also invited to participate. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of how we can strengthen systems\, enhance collaboration\, and work together to protect children. \n Register your attendance by Oct. 9\, 2026.
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/protecting-innocence-2026-strengthening-systems-to-protect-children/
LOCATION:UIC Rockford\, 1601 Parkview Ave.\, Rockford\, 61107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:Navigate Politics in Therapy Without Losing Your Ethics\, Your Neutrality\, or Yourself
DESCRIPTION:When clients want to talk politics\, you can find yourself holding your breath knowing you’re navigating contentious terrain. And let’s be honest — it’s not always easy to know what to do or how to keep your cool when your clients express views drastically different from your own. \nWhen approached with ethical clarity and intention\, these moments can deepen the work rather than derail it. This free training provides a grounded framework for responding to political conversations in therapy while staying regulated\, clinically effective\, and focused on the client. \nJoin ethics and boundaries expert Kirsten Lind Seal\, PhD\, LMFT\, to help you gain clarity on ethical boundaries when discussing political topics in therapy\, equipping you with tools to maintain professional integrity and foster open dialogue. \n 
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/navigate-politics-in-therapy-without-losing-your-ethics-your-neutrality-or-yourself/
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:The Referral that Actually Sticks: Identifying Suicide Risk and Creating a Bridge from Crisis/Emergency Setting to Outpatient Care
DESCRIPTION:Presented by TPN.health in partnership with TriWest Healthcare Alliance\, Safeguard Veterans\, Society of Emergency Medicine PAs (SEMPA)\, Emergency Nurses Association\, American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners \nChronic pain\, new disability\, terminal diagnosis\, and functional decline are among the strongest suicide risk factors clinicians encounter\, and they surface daily in settings unrelated to mental health. Most medical providers were not adequately trained to make the connection. This training teaches providers to recognize the physical conditions and life circumstances linked to elevated risk\, ask directly about suicidal ideation\, and work through the resistance those conversations produce. Because referral alone rarely gets patients through the door\, it also covers brief interventions and evidence-based system models that support the transition from crisis to outpatient behavioral health care. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives\nParticipants will be able to: \n\nIdentify the physical health conditions and life circumstances most strongly associated with elevated suicide risk.\nDemonstrate direct inquiry about suicidal ideation with patients presenting in non-behavioral health settings.\nApply brief intervention strategies that address patient resistance to behavioral health referral.\nEvaluate evidence-based system models for supporting the transition from crisis to outpatient care.\n\n\n\n\n\nTarget Audience\n\nAddiction Professional\nCounselor\nMarriage & Family Therapist\nNurse\nNurse Practitioner\nPhysician\nPsychologist\nSocial Worker
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/the-referral-that-actually-sticks-identifying-suicide-risk-and-creating-a-bridge-from-crisis-emergency-setting-to-outpatient-care/
LOCATION:Online Webinar Event
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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SUMMARY:Free Multicultural Training
DESCRIPTION:BEYOND AWARENESS \nCultural Competency\, Sensitivity\, and Professional Impact\nA Trauma-Informed Approach \nSESSION 1 I DR. LAYLA SARQUIS \nThe Lens\nExamine how culture\, values\, and experience shape professional judgment and climate. Analyze the cognitive\, environmental\, and family systems that build perception and human behavior. \nSESSION 2 I DR. KEVIN THOMAS \nBeyond the Assumption\nApply cultural responsiveness to mental health\, trauma\, communication\, family dynamics\, professional relationships\, and institutional expectations. \nWHO SHOULD ATTEND\nEducators • Mental health professionals • Social workers • Healthcare workers • Nonprofit and community professionals • Administrators \nRecognize assumptions. Seek understanding. Respond effectively across cultural differences.
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/free-multicultural-training/
LOCATION:New Zion Baptist Church\, 4747 W Riverside Blvd.\, Rockord\, IL\, 61101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261210T113000
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SUMMARY:Trauma 101 Training
DESCRIPTION:Trauma 101 Training\n\n\n\n\n\nThis training provides an overview on trauma\, trauma’s effects\, and the trauma informed approach. Learn about the different types of trauma and how to approach those who may have experienced traumatic events in the past. Learn about resiliency and actions that promote resiliency among the community. \nUpcoming Dates: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDecember 10 -11:30 am – 1:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre you an organization or business that needs to train a large group? Email us at tic@publichealth.wincoil.gov to schedule a training session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:https://www.ymhsoc.org/event/trauma-101-training-december-10/
LOCATION:Winnebago County Health Department\, Winnebago County Health Department\, 555 N. Court Street\, Rockford\, Illinois.\, Rockford\, IL\, 61103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Glow Ignite
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