About the 2010 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium
DEVELOPING RESILIENCE:
Children, Youth and Families as Community Assets
September 30 - October 1, 2010 • Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills • 14.25 Total CEUs (Including 3 hours of ethics)
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:
The 2010 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium will bring together local, state and national leaders to focus on state-of-the-art research, best practices and model programs aimed at developing resilience in children, youth and families and engaging them as important assets and resources for the wider community.
This year's emphasis will be on the theory and practice of strength- or asset-based approaches to working with young people in the contexts of families, schools, and communities, along with health and mental health settings. The needs of diverse populations among children, youth and families will be addressed, with particular consideration given to ethical and legal issues, along with culturally competent practice. Emphasis will include not only prevention and intervention strategies, but also positive development and movement toward self-sufficiency.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants in the Symposium may pursue one or more of the following objectives:
- Learn practical strategies for helping youth engage, connect and succeed, as well as influence children and youth's emotional resilience.
- Understand the theory and practical significance of human thriving and the concept of "spark."
- Understand how developmental science and research can inform practitioners about emotional resilience, its characteristics, and what hinders and facilitates its development.
- Learn the social determinants of health and what we can do to improve our overall health.
- Identify and understand how multiple contexts influence all of our behaviors.
- Learn how to take a difficult child's daily conflicts and turn those moments into teaching opportunities.
CONFERENCE FORMAT:
- Five plenary sessions, along with twenty-seven 90-minute workshops centered on innovative approaches to positive youth and family development. Workshops will focus on current clinical, research, best practices, and model programs that address asset building strategies along with social and emotional well-being. Biological, psychosocial, ethical and cultural related concerns may also be incorporated.
AUDIENCE:
- Social workers, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, certified alcohol and drug counselors, licensed alcohol and drug counselors, and other professionals engaged in social services, youth development, education, recreation, law enforcement, faith communities, and the judicial system.
- The Zarrow Symposium historically draws over 500 participants from across Oklahoma and surrounding states.
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Join us for a special evening with one of the world's leading experts on positive human development
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Finding and Nourishing the Spark
in Every Child and Teenager
Peter Benson, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, September 30th - 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Council Oak Ballroom - Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills
Free and Open to the Public
Reception Following
(No CEUs)
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