WORKSHOP IS NOW CLOSED - ONSITE REGISTRATION IS STILL AVAILABLE

This workshop, broadly writ, will encompass how children, birth through 5 years old, make sense of the world and vice-versa.

There's a normative choreography between caretaking adults and children that supports continuous experience of safe intimacy. When children and the adults in their lives read each other well, healthy development emerges naturally, and to the best of the child's capacities.

In this workshop, we will look at the elements that encompass normative development, as well as the factors that support and inhibit this. We'll discuss how to formulate a developmental profile and how to use this in creating strategies in home and in school.

With this workshop, participants will learn how to:

• Understand the trajectory and elements of emergent development
• Understand resilience and risk factors, and how to address them
• Look at how to formulate a developmental profile and how to create strategies for success
• Understand how a child navigates their environment, the actual environment that the child navigates, and how to engage that environment to support growth

NASW Member: $120 | Non-Member: $210

6 SW/LMFT CE Contact Hours

Ken Kessel, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that specializes in infant mental health and currently works as a mental health consultant at Head Start programs in the Bronx. He has taught at New York University, and has worked with children and families in foster care, substance abuse, outpatient and inpatient mental health, geriatrics, medical and therapeutic preschool settings, as well as in private practice. He has provided consultation and training in Cameroon and Kenya as well as in the US.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Valid requests must be received no later than five days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than five days prior to the course date.

All refunds are subject to a $20.00 administrative processing fee.

Refund requests typically require 1-2 weeks processing time.

Refunds ONLY. Credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.