October 13, 2010  2pm-5 pm

Strengths Perspective: Culturally-responsiveness Strategies for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

Trainer: Ida Terry, MA, LADC of REACH Training & Consulting

Culture impacts every aspect of our lives.  This is especially true for individuals reentering the community from a highly structured criminal justice culture; a culture replete with unique belief systems, learned values, and communication patterns that impact reintegration and recovery. Formerly incarcerated substance-involved individuals often find themselves in an entrapping niche; many are stymied by catch-22 situations from which there appears to be little hope of escape.   Escape is possible!  Participants who complete this workshop will be able to:

•   Identify cultural strengths and barriers to recovery
• Articulate and implement the six-point method of Strengths Perspective
• Utilize existing cultural strengths to transform feelings of powerlessness into hope and resiliency

• Who should attend: Behavioral Health and Mental Health Providers,Correctional  and Community Re-Entry Professionals, Outreach Workers, Prison Ministry staff, Clergy, Social Workers and Marriage Family Therapists

   

Hosted by 

The Multicultural Leadership
Institute, Inc.  (MLI) and REACH Consulting and Training

Tickets: Sorry, but we cannot facilitate walk-ins. You must register to attend.  Register now, via credit card or PayPal through EVENTBRITE. If mailing a check, you must mail your check for $35.00, along with your completed registration form before 10/3/10 (fill out & print your completed online registration form or contact MLI for paper version) to:

MLI, Inc.

100 S. Turnpike Rd., Suite C

Wallingford, CT 06492

Attn: Strengths Perspective Training

**If by mail, We will register you in the system once we receive/process your check. You will be confirmed by email thereafter. If by website, you will receive confirmation immediately and by email prior to the event.

Other: Please let us know if you have special needs for attending this event.

CEUs: Certificates of attendance will be made available at the end of the program.  

NOTE TO ATTENDEES: We are approved for CCB, Inc. CEUs. Please feel free to contact any other other accrediting bodies you may be associated with, in order to determine what materials may be needed (i.e., a schedule, certificate of attendance) from our event if needed for you to submit. Thank you.

PARKING: Parking is available at MLI. MLI shares an office suite with the CCB (Suite C); you may follow signs for either agency. We are close to the Chevrolet Theater, and we are in the same building as the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce which is visible from the road. Use main entrance to building #100 to enter (side of building, facing the lot), and not the Chamber's entrance.

Cancellation & Refunds

Must be done via website (if registered online) or by calling MLI at 203-793-1952.

If there is a cancellation, refunds will only be given after payment has been received and processed by MLI, Inc.,and a $5.00 service charge will be deducted from fees.

Refunds will not be given after 10/5/10.

Registration sales end on October 3, 2010 or when course is filled.

If you are attempting to register and ticket sales are closed, please contact MLI, Inc. to be put on a waiting list and you will be informed if space becomes available.

CONTACT:  Tel: 203-793-1952  Fax: 203-269-1138

Ida Terry, MA, LADC brief bio.:

Ms. Terry has worked with the State of Connecticut Department of Correction Addiction Services (Minimum, Maximum and DUI Addiction Services Units) for over 10 years, has 16 years of clinical supervisory skills, and over 14 years of correctional therapeutic community design, development and implementation. She is the Owner and Director of REACH Training & Consulting and is a frequent trainer for multicultural educational workshops for MLI, Inc. and the State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services- Office of Multicultural Affairs. She is also the developer of the Chronicles of Success Conference Series which is now in its 3rd year.  (please see this www.mli-inc.org  EVENT BRITE TRAININGS & EVENTS for registration for the next conference to be held on October 28, 2010).