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Printer Friendly| Facilitators: | April Prescott Dr. Carole Anne Hapchyn | ||||||||||||||
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| Date: | This is a multi-day event.
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| Cost: |
No Charge |
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| Location: |
Virtual |
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| Session Code: | 24-PA-582 | ||||||||||||||
| Focus: | Inclusive Education |
Target Audience
Parents
About this Learning Opportunity
Toxic stress resulting from early adversity or neurodevelopmental vulnerability is considered a public crisis as it has lifelong impacts on health, behavior, and even socioeconomic inequity (Bucci et al. 2016; Gilbert et al. 2015). Long-term consequences of toxic stress include structural brain changes and epigenetic shifts, resulting in disrupted stress physiology, poor social-emotional outcomes, and increased risk for autoimmune diseases, mental health disorders, substance use, and suicide (Anda et al. 2006; Bahreinian et al. 2013; Gradus 2017; McEwen 1998; Teicher et al. 2002).
In this series of 7 sessions, Dr. Hapchyn and April will provide an overview of the Three Steps to Resilience model from the NeuroRelational Framework (NRF). The main objective of this series
is to provide caregivers with the basic knowledge and skills of recognizing stress response states, addressing these states through co-regulation, and how to do so in an interdisciplinary model. (https://nrfcare.org/)
Participants will benefit from downloading the free NRF starter kit from the website here:
https://nrfcare.org/starter-kit/
The NeuroRelational Framework (NRF) (Lillas et al. 2009) seeks to provide trauma-informed assessment and intervention with three clinical steps based on neuroscience and relational research.
The clinical steps aim to:
1) reduce or eliminate toxic stress patterns and promote adaptive stress responses,
2) support healthy caregiver-child engagement and social-emotional development, and
3) utilize individualized, neurodevelopmentally informed approaches to supporting children and caregivers based on their strengths and vulnerabilities across brain systems.
By integrating science about the brain and the wisdom of relationships, the NRF aims to improve care for the whole child. The NRF provides a big-picture and collaborative approach to understanding the brain and body and how that shows up in your relationships. The framework bridges fragmented systems of care and overlapping diagnoses through a common language and shared approach toward whole-person care.
NOTE: Sessions will be recorded and shared with participants who have signed up for the series. As each session builds on the next, attendance for each is recommended.
This session addresses the LQS competencies
- 2. Modeling Commitment to Professional Learning
- 3. Embodying Visionary Leadership
This session addresses the TQS competencies
- 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning
- 4. Establishing Inclusive Learning Environments
Facilitators
April Prescott
April Prescott is a Certified Canadian Counsellor whose work focuses on children and youth in care across Northern Alberta. Previously, she spent time as the Inclusive Education Coordinator for Aboriginal Head Start in Edmonton for 7 years, a teacher in a PUF program for 10 years, and 5 years as an Educational Assistant across K-12. Her areas of expertise within the APLC are early learning,... Read more »
Dr. Carole Anne Hapchyn
Dr. Carole Anne Hapchyn, MD, FRCPC - Carole Anne Hapchyn is an infant and early childhood psychiatrist who has provided assessment and treatment for infants and young children and their families for over 30 years in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She was the medical lead of Infant Preschool Services at CASA Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health and of the Autism Clinic at the Glenrose... Read more »