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Parents Helping Parents and Totally FAB Kids Night- Leawood
Church of the Resurrection is hosting a continuing education opportunity, with a pizza dinner for families and their foster, adopted, and biological children. The parents will convene for a parents helping parents session while the children play in the Student Center with A Child’s Hope volunteers.
The speaker will be Felicia Richard, LCSW, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas and has worked with children in settings such as a residential facility, group home, hospital, crisis nursery, school, and an outpatient play therapy center. She has a passion for helping abused and neglected children and their families. While working as a play therapist here in Kansas City she was trained in Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) as well as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). She will be speaking on “Feeling Identification and Your Child.” Learn how to help your child identify four basic feelings. Parents will participate in fun and engaging play therapy activities that help children with feeling identification. Parents will receive information on how to make their own feeling games at home as well as helpful handouts. Come and bring out your own “inner child”.
Visit the website to register for this event.
A PDH certificate will be given at the conclusion of the training.
