Professional Development Schedule

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Workshops are held either virtually or at CORA Services Fox Chase building, 8540 Verree Road, Philadelphia, PA 19111 unless otherwise noted in your communications during/after registration.

2022/2023 Schedule

10/11/22 Racial Literacy: How to Help Our Students, Schools and Families Deal with Racial incidents (Virtual)
Dr. Howard Stevenson, University of Penn
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Racial Literacy
About this workshop:
Navigating the stress of racial conflict or conversation is not easy. Recent racial hostility across the nation has led educational and mental health institutions serving children and families to reform how they address racial injustice. Moreover, therapists and educators are overwhelmed as to what to do. Less understood and discussed is how racial stress and conflict influence processes essential in competent case management and counseling. This workshop will focus on the basics of resolving racially stressful encounters in collegial and therapeutic relationships, but also in working ethically with clients of color. We will discuss ways leaders and therapists can understand how to manage racial stress in therapy and professional relationship through racial socialization and literacy skills building.
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Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

10/27/22 Developmental Influences on Sensori-Motor Skills, Academic and Mental Health (Virtual)
Maude LeRoux, OTR/L, SIPT
A Total Approach/Maude Le Roux Academy
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
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Developmental Influences on Sensorimotor Skills
About this workshop:
This 3-hour workshop will take the participant on a developmental journey that will support clinical reasoning in assessing socio-emotional, relational, and academic behavior. Maude will discuss regulation in its multiple forms as she weaves her way through the different pivotal points that supports the learning behavior we would like to see. She will support the workshop participant from an evidence-based perspective and also be practical in providing tools and tips for a multi-disciplinary audience. It will be a quick tour through some complicated developmental constructs, but her easy way of explaining the complicated intricacies will keep the listener captivated and wanting to learn more. Behavior can be understood in different ways, though for Maude it is about “Chasing the Why”.
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CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!
Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

11/9/22 Managing Youth and Caregiver Anxious Distress in the Context of COVID-19 (Virtual)
Yesenia Marroquin, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Youth Mental Health During COVID 19
About this workshop:
Child and Adolescent mental health has been declared a National Emergency by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Children’s Hospital Association. This presentation will outline the exacerbating effects COVID-19 has had on the mental health of youth and caregivers and offer resources that may be of service to youth and families we serve.
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Public Registration Link: Registration is now closed for this event!
CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!
Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

2/9/23 Self-Care for School Professionals (Virtual)
Allison Talbot, Ed.S.,NCSP, School Psychologist -CORA Services
Jessica Savaiano, Ed.S., NCSP, BCBA, LBS, RYT – Doctoral Candidate in School Psychology, PCOM
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Brochure
About this workshop:
Attendees will be able to engage in yoga activities, mindfulness activities and learn about various ways in which to help bolster mental health during the school year. Attendees will also have the opportunity to discuss difficult situations they have faced during the school year and understand various coping skills and boundary settings to assist with managing these situations. This workshop aims to give participants tools and strategies to protect them from compassion fatigue, burnout, overwhelm and stress faced in personal and professional life.
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Public Registration Link: Registration is now closed for this event!
CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!
Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

2/28/23

A Transdiagnostic Approach to Mental Health Service Delivery for Children and Adolescents (Virtual)
Richard G. Allen PsyD, NCSP, BCBA-D
Assistant Professor, Department of School Psychology
Director, Educational Specialist Program (EdS)
School of Professional & Applied Psychology
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
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Brochure
About this workshop:
Mental health problems can be challenging to effectively treat through a diagnostic specific approach as patients often present with co-occurring problems that may also shift in priority through the course of treatment.  Additionally, while there have been many empirically-supported diagnostic-specific manualized treatments developed, they are often not implemented in “real world” due a lack of time and resources.  Transdiagnsotic approaches may be an effective way to address some of these issues.  According to a transdiagnostic approach, there are shared cognitive and behavioral processes responsible for symptoms across mental health disorders and interventions can be implemented to address multiple problems.  During this session, attendees will be provided with an overview of transdiagnostic approaches, current research support and their application in the treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders.  Common empirically supported interventions will be reviewed to support practitioners in linking clinical conceptualization of presenting problems to a model for effective and practical service delivery.

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Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

3/24/23

Size Matters Handwriting Program: Proven. Practical. Measurable. Embeddable
This workshop is in-person!
Beverly H. Moskowitz, DOT MS OTR/L FAOTA
Real OT Solutions
8:30a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
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Brochure
About this workshop:
The Size Matters Handwriting Program is the first handwriting instructional program that is fully imbeddable, measurable and proven. It is easy to learn, implement and collect data. SMHP is a strong partnering in Response to Intervention, a valued companion to core curriculum already rich with content .

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Public Registration Link: Registration is now closed for this event!
CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!
Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): not available for this workshop.

4/26/23

Suicide Prevention, Intervention & Postvention Strategies (Virtual)
Courtney Gambrell, M.S.
Family Advocate Counselor, CORA Services
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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Brochure
About this workshop:
The purpose of the presentation is to support mental health practitioners and other professionals with becoming more comfortable with conducting suicide risk assessments. Counselors may benefit from learning about comprehensive suicide risk assessments and crisis intervention avenues.

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Public Registration Link: Registration is now closed for this event!
CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!
Former CORA Staff Registration Link (for CORA Former Staff use only): Registration is now closed for this event!

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Continuing Education Credits

CORA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. CORA Services maintains responsibility for the program and its content. CORA Services is approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to sponsor continuing education for certification under Act 48. The PA Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors has approved the credit hours for this conference. CORA Services has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5802. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CORA Services is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.  CORA Services asks that participants attend the entire workshop and complete the evaluation form. Partial credits will not be awarded. Late arrival or early departure will preclude awarding of CE credits.