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The Caring Connection – A Relational Approach to Youth Resilience and Suicide Prevention
The Caring Connection – A Relational Approach to Youth Resilience and Suicide Prevention
Rates of youth anxiety and depression may be increasing*, but there's something you can do to help. Join Emily Andersen, Licensed Professional Counselor and co-founder of BE Consulting Group, to learn a strengths-based way to help the kids in your life survive and thrive in the midst of challenges. Register HERE This program brought to…
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General Membership Meeting
General Membership Meeting
Join us for our quarterly membership meetings! In March, we will be joined by newly-elected Cobb District Attorney Flynn Broady, Jr. who will be sharing new initiatives for the DA's office, including the Family Justice Center. Amy Crowell, author of the A-Z Guide to Event Fundraising and founder of Next Stage Advisors is sponsoring our…
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Mental Health First Aid for Adults
Mental Health First Aid for Adults
Mental Health First Aid for Adults teaches people how to recognize signs of mental health or substance use challenges in adults ages 18 and older, how to offer and provide initial help, and how to guide a person toward appropriate care if necessary. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, psychosis, and addictions. Please note that with…
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Virtual Differences are Good!
Virtual Differences are Good!
This course lays a foundation for exploring biases and stereotypes and the importance of moving beyond them when working with clients and colleagues. Through dialogue and activity participants will analyze their own perceptions and how they can work better with others. At the end of this course learners will be able to: Understand the value…
Virtual Differences are Good!
Virtual Differences are Good!
This course lays a foundation for exploring biases and stereotypes and the importance of moving beyond them when working with clients and colleagues. Through dialogue and activity participants will analyze their own perceptions and how they can work better with others. At the end of this course learners will be able to: Understand the value…
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H.A.S.T.E. (Homeless Awareness Strategy Team Effort)
H.A.S.T.E. (Homeless Awareness Strategy Team Effort)
Bi-Monthly opportunity where nonprofit leaders serving those in poverty and homelessness meet to discuss and impact inequality in housing and shelter needs in Cobb County. We will meet virtually until further notice. January Zoom Registration March Zoom Registration May Zoom Registration July Zoom Registration September Zoom Registration
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Banking Fundamentals – Should my nonprofit consider a bank loan?
Banking Fundamentals – Should my nonprofit consider a bank loan?
Most nonprofits think it is too risky to apply for a commercial loan. But what's the real story? What are banks looking for? What questions should a nonprofit be ready to answer? How do loans to nonprofits differ from loans to for-profit business in terms of structure, rates, terms and conditions? Join Carolyn Donaldson, Financial…
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Connections Matter – Trauma Informed Training
Connections Matter – Trauma Informed Training
Every day connections are more important than we ever believed. Science tells us that relationships have the power to shape our brains. Relationships help us learn better, work better, parent better. When we experience tough times, they help us heal. With each connection, we develop a healthier stronger community. Connections Matter training is designed to…
NAMI Monthly Educational Meeting
NAMI Monthly Educational Meeting
Parking is plentiful and there will be signs directing you to the meeting room just inside the main entrance. We will be meeting at the Tommy Nobis Center Center. Doors open at 7:00 pm. The meeting itself commences at 7:15 pm with business and announcements. This is followed by our monthly speaker presentation and some…
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Connections Matter – Trauma Informed Training
Connections Matter – Trauma Informed Training
Every day connections are more important than we ever believed. Science tells us that relationships have the power to shape our brains. Relationships help us learn better, work better, parent better. When we experience tough times, they help us heal. With each connection, we develop a healthier stronger community. Connections Matter training is designed to…
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Virtual Trauma/Brain 201: Building Resilience
Virtual Trauma/Brain 201: Building Resilience
Participants will learn the characteristics of resilience, examine myths and facts about resilience, and learn specific strategies for building resilience in children and youth. Register Here
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Mindful Self Compassion
Mindful Self Compassion
Register here Many of us have been surviving the last year with little support and unprecedented stress. Especially as helping professionals, we can find ourselves truly out of gas to continue giving when we ourselves are also suffering. Mindful Self-compassion can be a resource for us to navigate grief, stress, and other painful emotions. Come…
Paper Tigers Screening
Paper Tigers Screening
Join our Children & Families Strategy Team in a screening of the highly-acclaimed documentary Paper Tigers. This film examines the effects of childhood trauma and how one community transformed its culture to respond. The film follows six students as teachers, administrators, health professionals and counselors support them through stressful life events. The film offers a…
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Lunch & Learn – “Top 5 Time Sucks”
Lunch & Learn – “Top 5 Time Sucks”
Join us as Kathy Grosskurth shares how to deal with the top 5 time wasters that we all encounter on a day-to-day basis. Implementing these key tips should help us all with staying on task while mitigating or avoiding being pulled down that rabbit hold of getting little or nothing of importance done. During this…
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No Silence. No Shame. No Stigma. No Suicide.
No Silence. No Shame. No Stigma. No Suicide.
Join nationally-known Venessa D. Abram, Founder & Executive Director of Self-Discovery: Pain, Positioning & Purpose, Inc. ™ as she leads us in a real conversation about mental health. Venessa is an author, speaker, suicide attempt survivor, and sibling suicide loss survivor. She will be sharing tools, tips, suicide prevention education and community resilience practices. Mental health…
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A Better Understanding of Adolescent Health with GCAPP
A Better Understanding of Adolescent Health with GCAPP
The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential (GCAPP) created an innovative Parent Toolkit in 2020 to help parents and caregivers navigate the child- development journey. The Toolkit provides practical information to help parents and caregivers navigate topics and situations that all families face, including ones that are hard to talk about. Open, honest parent-child…