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• Productive Aging SIS Spring Webinar

  • When
    10 Apr 2021
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    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (UTC-04:00)

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  Helping Older Adults Remain Engaged and Connected During COVID-19

  Date: April 10th from 9:00-11:00am (Virtual Zoom Webinar)

  COVID-19 has significantly increased the risk of social isolation for older adults which can impact one's health and mental health. Research underscores the importance of civic engagement and volunteerism for combating isolation and improving health and well-being. This online workshop will focus on strategies that you can use to support older clients to remain engaged and connected during COVID with a special focus on finding creative opportunities for volunteering and community engagement.

  Learning objectives:

  1) Discuss the concepts of risk and resiliency as they relate to social isolation for older adults during COVID

  2) Identify creative opportunities for older adult civic engagement that can help to combat social isolation and support health

  3) Discuss resources for helping older adults remain connected during COVID

  Presented by:

  Jennifer Crittenden, PhD, MSW

  Assistant Professor of Social Work

  Associate Director, UMaine Center on Aging

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• Adult Rehabilitation SIS Spring Webinar

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    17 Apr 2021
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    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (UTC-04:00)

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  Implications of Trauma on Occupation across the Lifespan

  
  

  Objectives:  

  1. Participants will identify 3 neurological implications of chronic developmental trauma at the chemical, cellular, and cortical levels.

  2. Participants will identify experiences of trauma impacting current and future occupations.

  3. Participants will identify individualized action steps to progress their journey in trauma informed practice in their current and/or future practice settings.

  
  

  Presented by Rachel Ashcraft, MS, OTR/L, TBRI® Practitioner

  Rachel Ashcraft is a licensed and registered occupational therapist with a focus on trauma informed practice.  Rachel is the clinical supervisor for OT/PT/ and Counseling services at the Hoover location of Child’sPlay Therapy Center in Alabama.  Rachel is a Trust Based Relational Intervention® practitioner and finds the merging of attachment theory, family systems theory, and trauma informed models such as TBRI® with OT Practice a powerful combination for occupational therapy practice. Rachel is an adoptive parent and former foster parent. She credits the children who shared her home as her best and most cherished teachers. She currently serves as President of the Alabama Occupational Therapy Association.  She has been at the forefront of the national OT movement towards more trauma informed care across the profession.  She has received recognition from both State and National Occupational Therapy Associations for her work with vulnerable children, including receiving the 2018 Emerging & Innovative Practice Award from The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.  Rachel founded a 501(c)3, Foster the Future Alabama, with the mission of reducing the inequality in services provided to children in Alabama’s foster system. Rachel’s scholarly work involves contributions related to trauma informed school-based practice, trauma informed community based practice with an emphasis on the foster care community, and trauma informed outpatient practice for children and families. 

  
  

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• Children and Youth SIS Spring Webinar

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    24 Apr 2021
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    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (UTC-04:00)

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  Holly St. Onge, MS OTR/L
  

  Telehealth Practice in Pediatrics: Tips and Tools for this Emerging Practice Area

   

  Objectives:

  • Learn strategies for setting yourself and your families up for successful telehealth practice

  • Become more comfortable with technology and more confident coaching e-helpers

  • Discuss intervention ideas with limited resources and using a range of devices

  • Discuss resources to help support your telehealth practice

  
  
  

  Holly St. Onge, MS OTR/L is a graduate of the University of New England. She has been a pediatric OT since 2008 and has worked at Pediatric Development Center since 2013. Holly has training in Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration, Therapeutic Listening, Handwriting Without Tears, Zones of Regulation, Sensory Processing Disorders, kinesiotaping, constraint-induced movement therapy, craniosacral therapy, and more. She has experience providing occupational therapy to children with a range of diagnoses including: sensory processing difficulties, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, learning disabilities, Down syndrome, ADHD, apraxia, neuromuscular disorders, vestibular dysfunction, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, vision impairments, communication disorders, juvenile diabetes, epilepsy and seizure disorders, genetic conditions, rare diseases, and social-emotional challenges. Holly has taught workshops in the Portland area for preschool and daycare providers, Head Start providers, teachers, therapeutic riding instructors, Child Development Services, occupational therapists, case managers, etc. and has presented at MEOTA and AOTA conferences.

  
  

  
  

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