The Mental Health Board and the Center for Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs have partnered to offer this training opportunity for our BH network.
Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children and Adolescents Struggling with School Refusal-School Avoidance | In-person training | Friday, April 19, 2024 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, at the McHenry County Mental Health Board, 620 Dakota Street in Crystal Lake. Presented by Jacqueline Rhew, LCPC, CADC, and Lauren Bilbrey, MA, LBS1, of the Center of Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs.
TRAINING IS FULL. TO BE PUT ON THE WAITLIST EMAIL kdoherty@mc708.org
FREE: 3 CEUs for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and CPDUs for School Professionals
Engaging All Learners. Students struggling with Mental Health, Externalizing Behaviors and/or Substance Abuse related concerns. School professionals and Clinicians are invited to come participate in this 3-hour interactive discussion focused on supporting students struggling with school anxiety, avoidance, and/or refusal behaviors. Participants will have opportunities to review their current plans and practices used to support students struggling with engagement. Participants are also invited to bring ideas and review cases with fellow educators in the hopes of creating interventions and gaining new insights. Materials will be reviewed, including strategies to partner with students and families dealing with school anxiety, refusal, or avoidance behaviors, attendance plans, and in-house programming. Obstacles to school engagement will be identified, as well as ways to overcome those barriers. During this time, participants will work in groups to personalize their learning and create ideas that apply to their students, families, and specific buildings.
Jacqueline Rhew, LCPC, CADC: As the co-founder of the Center for Emotional Wellness of the Northwest Suburbs, she is an expert in her field and is called upon by hundreds of school districts, family agencies and mental health facilities — locally and nationally — for consulting staff to better serve their youth. Jacqueline served as a Clinical Consultant for AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital for many years, and previously served as Assistant Director for the School Anxiety/School Refusal Program — a program she was instrumental in creating and developing. She has facilitated 300-plus workshops for professionals and parents — locally and nationally — on topics ranging from anxiety, school refusal, parenting, and self-injury.
Lauren Bilbrey, MA, LBS1: Lauren has been a teacher for the past 18 years. She holds a Master’s Degree in Special Education, a Bachelor’s Degree in English Education and a Learning Behavior Specialist Certification (LBS1). Before choosing to invest her time fully into building the company in response to community need, she spent the 12 years prior as the Clinical Supervisor of Patient Education at Ascension- Alexian Brothers Behavioral Medicine, overseeing nine programs at two locations. Before leading her team at the hospital, she taught at the middle school and high school level, in the general education setting as well as in a therapeutic day school and alternative high school program.
