NO MORE STRESS ABOUT STRESS
Research says that almost 80% of all physical illness is caused by the stressors in our life. This includes everything from cancer to the common cold. Participants will learn how normal brain functioning has allowed this to happen. Through fun, interactive, experiential methods of presenting, participants will learn to be healthier and much happier.

SCHOOL IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS ANYMORE
Research shows children do better in school when parents and teachers cooperate. Identify roadblocks to this teamwork. Learn to build a positive working relationship and guarantee kids' success. Understand and advocate for your child through an Individual Education Plan. Learn to speak the language: IEP, SAT, MDT, etc.

BUILDING A BETTER BRAIN
All of us want our kids to be successful in school. All of us can improve our ability to learn, focus, retain information, and enjoy life more. Participants will learn Brain Gym and other ways to do just that!

THE SHAME GAME
Kids suffer enormous shame from past trauma. Relentless negative behavior is usually their only coping strategy. This two part workshop will first address how this shame physically affects the brain of the child and the adult caregivers. In the second portion hands on skills will be learned to remedy the situation.
Complex Post Traumatic Stress
Jackie presents an information filled one day workshop on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). The material will range from the causes and effects in children to the treatment and relief of symptoms. Current research has shown that traumas experienced early in life can result in physical damage to the brain. Through fun, interactive, experiential methods of presenting, participants will learn to be the key to healing a child's traumatized brain.

EVERYONE SAYS I AM DOING A GOOD JOB; WHY DON'T I FEEL THAT WAY
Foster and adoptive parents take in children because they love kids. Teachers and case workers work long hours. Unfortunately the traumatized kids they work with have massive amounts of shame and do not feel they deserve to be loved and cared for. The kids push the adults away and the adults feel hurt. This results in feelings of failure and depression. This workshop is for anyone ready to admit that they sometimes do not feel so good about working with these kids. Learn to be able to lessen the pain through fun, entertaining interactive experiences.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS KID?
Teachers often feel frustrated and helpless with a child's negative behavior. Traditional discipline has not worked. Find out possible causes of behavior. Practice simple workable techniques that do work for the classroom.

HELP ME DON'T MOVE ME
A child's brain is affected any time the child is moved in foster care. Building Blocks foster care agency has created a model for foster care where children DO NOT move 85% of the time. Children are either adopted, families take guardianship or the child goes back to his biological home. Building Blocks has managed to stay fiscally sound and an advocate for the child. Through fun, interactive, experiential methods of presenting, participants will learn to replicate this model.

ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA FOCUSED THERAPY
This workshop will address the needs of children affected by profound experiences of early maltreatment and attachment related traumas. These children have frequently been deemed "untreatable". As a result they are moved to many placements and then to largely ineffective residential placements. Recent advances in neuroscience have begun to clarify that the underlying issue in trauma is profound dysregulated fear. Therapeutic techniques must be implemented that will calm this fear driven brain and allow the young person to make positive choices.

EVERYTHING CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU IN A COURT OF LAW
Foster and Adoptive parents are often accused of child abuse because of allegations made by their children. Parents have literally ended up in jail. This is very frightening but real. Some of these allegations are false but in other cases parents have been so pushed by their children that they really do abusive things. Proactive methods can prevent this and give parents and agencies hope to heal these troubled children without fear.