When:
June 3, 2022 all-day
2022-06-03T00:00:00-04:00
2022-06-04T00:00:00-04:00

Special-Needs Law Presentation for Special Needs families family in Springfield, MAVirtual Event, June 3rd, 2022, with the Parent Professional Advocacy League of Massachusetts. The Parent Professional’s Advocacy League’s family mental health conference is for all involved in family mental health challenges support and recovery for all ages in Massachusetts. 2022 Theme: Together Towards Tomorrow
* Key Note speaker – Brynn Burger
.  Brynn is a Best-Selling Author, a national speaker, and a coach for extreme parents navigating raising children with behavior diagnoses, mental health concerns, and trauma survival as she battles in the trenches alongside them.
Workshop topics include:

  • Anxiety and Unmet Needs” – Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS
  • The State of Black and Brown Mental Health” – Lisa Kennedy, Family Peer Support Specialist
  • “Knowing Your Child as a Soul and the Healing of Mental Health Distress” – Diana Belle, founder of Doors of Light
  • School-To-Prison Pipeline: Realities of the CRA Process” – Leon Smith, Executive Director, Citizens for Juvenile Justice
  • “Special Education After Covid” – Jeffery Sankey, Esq.
  • Helping Our More Vulnerables Kids: Supporting Kids with Executive Function and Anxiety Challenges” – Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS
  • Domestic Violence Through a Suicide Awareness Lens: Has it Canceled Black Mental Health?”
  • “Addressing Impact of Bullying During the Pandemic and Recovery” Dr. Peter Raffalli, MD
  • What Youth with Mental Illness Need from Mom and Dad: Parental Insights from a Son with Lived Experience” – Micah Howe, Mental Health Advocate
  • Psychiatric Boarding: An Existing Crisis Worsened by the Pandemic” – Doug Crook, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, BRT Nurse Manager, Miranda Gonzalez, LICSW

* For Scholarship info contact conference@ppal.net
* For updates and more information visit https://ppal.net/conference-2022/ 
or contact Lisa Lambert
Parent/Professional Advocacy League, 617-542-7860

 

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