COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Increasing understanding of how trauma impacts health, safety, and well-being
Terms like brain science, dysregulation, and trauma-informed care can be intimidating. Yet, understanding how trauma negatively impacts health, safety, and well-being is vital to all our lives and future. That's why Children & Families First's Brain Science Training Institute, or BSTI /bess·tee/ is here to help!
Just like a "bestie" should, CFF's BSTI will support, encourage, and empower you in ways that work best for you! Using creative, easy-to-engage formats our Community Education Programs present expert-led, high-interest topic discussions in welcoming spaces. Best of all, they're FREE and OPEN TO ALL!
2024 PROGRAMS
WHAT ABOUT OUR KIDS?
Teen Health and Social Media
FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION
TUESDAY, MARCH 19th, 2024
5:00pm to 8:00pm
CHEER Center, 20520 Sand Hill Road, Georgetown, DE
FREE!! & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Includes a light dinner.
Pre-registration is now CLOSED.
Walk ins are welcomed and encouraged!
Please join us - we'd be glad to have you!
THE FILM - WHAT ABOUT OUR KIDS?
Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Sharon Baker will present highlight reels from her new, soon to be released film What About Our Kids? (USA/2024). Offering a unique opportunity for attendees to get a special preview first look at this must-see film that uses first person testimony from mental health practitioners, educators and a diverse sampling of teens themselves to address teen mental health, social media, and how the caring adults in their lives can help them to become more resilient.
Experts in brain science, equity and inclusion, trauma-informed care, education, and public health will respond and react to the film through their unique lenses and perspectives. They will purposefully lead discussions that inspire learning, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving to empower attendees in nurturing adolescent mental health with ample opportunity for Q&A.
FEATURED PANELISTS
THE PANEL - WHAT CAN WE DO?
Tracey
Quillen-Carney
Delaware First Lady
First Chance Initiative
Cassandra
Codes-Benjamin
Director School Supports, DDOE
Dr. Bill
Chasanov
Chief Health Systems Design Officer, Beebe
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Pastor
Michael Bell
Radiant Church
Greenwood, DE
CFF BSTI PRESENTERS
Kiera McGillivray, LMFT
Chief Program Officer
Dr. Julius Mullen
Chief Inclusion Officer
Shannon Fisch, LCSW
Director of Ops & Risk Mgmt
Send us an email and we'll be sure to respond asap!