APAC

Trainings

APAC offers opportunities for families and professionals to increase their knowledge of permanency related subjects. Educational Training services are available to all adoptive families, all foster families, all professionals serving adoptive and foster families, kinship care families, and DHR waiting families.

To schedule a presentation for your group or organization, complete our training contact form.

Upcoming Statewide Trainings

Impact of Trauma & Neglect on the Developing Child
APAC is proud to present this FREE one-day training with internationally recognized expert Dr. Bruce Perry. The development of a young child is profoundly influenced by experience. Experiences – good and bad - shape the organization of the brain. The ultimate effect is to impact emotional, social, cognitive and physiological functioning. This presentation will review clinical work and research that can help us better understand developmental trauma, neglect and the relational problems that arise from neglect and threat.

Workshop Objectives:
• Understand the effects of trauma and neglect from a neurodevelopmental perspective.
• Identify signs and symptoms of trauma and neglect in young children.
• Learn new strategies for care, program development, and policy as related to developmental trauma.

Continuing Education Credits
6 CEUs
Note: Social Work and Counseling CEUs cost $35.00.

CAS is an approved CEU provider by the Alabama Board of Social Work Examiners and National Board for Certified Counselors .

Thursday, April 12

Schedule
8-9am: Registration
9am-4:30pm: Training
lunch on your own

Bessemer Civic Center
1130 9th Avenue SW
Bessemer, AL 35022
Click here for a Google Map.

Dr. Bruce D. Perry is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, a not-for-profit organization based in Houston and adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children.

If you have questions about this training, please contact Brock Sellers at training@childrensaid.org.