CE Credit Hours Opportunity: Free Training Series: Trauma Responsive Lawyering for Legal Advocates

Reminder:

Eighth Training: Case Discussion of Trauma-Informed Legal Work

Friday, March 19th@ 12pm-2pm EST

This training is instructed by Sascha Griffin, PhD, She is a licensed clinical psychologist who has extensive experience working with trauma-exposed youth and adults, and currently works as the psychotherapist at the New York City Health + Hospitals Family Justice Center Mental Health Collaboration program at the Staten Island Family Justice Center. Dr. Griffin has provided direct clinical and supervisory services within acute care units, outpatient clinics, court-based clinics, residential treatment centers, and domestic violence shelters. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals that address the interrelationships between trauma exposure and mental health concerns. Dr. Griffin received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Additionally, this training is instructed by Elizabeth Fitelson, MD. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the co-founder and Director of the Women's Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. She completed her medical training and residency at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her area of clinical expertise includes the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric disorders across the female life cycle, including perinatal psychopharmacological management, menstrual cycle, and perimenopause-related disorders, infertility, and pregnancy loss as well as trauma and the intersection of IPV and mental health. Dr. Fitelson co-directs the Columbia Psychiatry Domestic Violence Initiative, a collaboration with the Chapman-Perelman Foundation, the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, and NYC Health & Hospitals, providing psychiatric care to domestic violence survivors at New York City’s Family Justice Centers.

All trainings will be held Fridays, January 22 – March 19, 2021 12pm-2pm EST

Note: You may register for the whole series, or just for individual trainings within the series. These trainings will also be eligible for Continuing Legal Education Credits.

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Reminder:

Seventh Training: Vicarious Trauma

Friday, March 12th@ 12pm-2pm EST

The instructors for this training will be Rosa Regincos, LCSW and Dr. Tamar Levy. Working with IPV can lead to personal and professional growth. Moreover, it gives legal professionals the rewarding opportunity to work with a resilient population capable of making enormous changes in their lives. However, learning about cruelty, humiliation, abandonment, vulnerability and pain, and the devastating impact that abuse has on individuals, families and societies is not free of challenges. The same way abuse affects the individuals who have experienced it, working with IPV survivors can deeply transform the lives of legal providers working with them. This presentation will focus on providers’ response to working with IPV survivors and individual and organizational strategies to prevent and address providers’ responses to working with traumatized clients, as well as burn-out

All trainings will be held Fridays, January 22 – March 19, 2021 12pm-2pm EST