DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE REGISTER IS CLOSED.

Please contact Leslie Aizenman at laizenman@jfcspgh.org to be put on the waiting list.

Please join the National Partnership for Community Training, the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and Pittsburgh-based Jewish Family & Children’s for “Building Awareness, Skills & Knowledge: A Community Response to the Torture Survivor Experience” on 6/13/12 in Pittsburgh, PA at the Herberman Conference Center at UPMC Shadyside (5230 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232) from 9:00am-4:30pm.

Cost: FREE
Refreshments provided
*Registration will take place from 8:30-9:00am where breakfast will be provided.

Jim Lavelle, LICSW at the Harvard Program in Refugee will be presenting.

The training objectives are:

• To increase the awareness of torture survivors in the Pittsburgh refugee and immigrant communities
• To discuss the definition, prevalence and affects of torture
• To stress the importance of culturally sensitive approaches to health promotion
• To discuss bi-cultural workers and the use of interpreters
• To increase skills on the proper use of screening tools such as the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and torture survivors
• To understand how screening tools help identify concrete mental and physical effects of torture
• To discuss the connection between empathy and self-careThis program is offered for 6 hours of social work continuing education through co-sponsorship with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work, a PA pre-approved provider of social work continuing education. These credit hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT biennial license renewal.

This program is offered for 6 hours of social work continuing education through co-sponsorship with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work, a PA pre-approved provider of social work continuing education. These credit hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT biennial license renewal.