Name: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Start: 2024-05-16T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-16T12:15:00-04:00
Location: Center for Prevention Services Training Room

An in-person workshop describing the ACEs study and the impact on child and adult wellbeing.
About this Event

Description

This training on the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study will aim to educate participants on the study and its findings as well as educate participants on how childhood experiences can adversely affect those in which they work. Finally, the training will seek to educate participants on resiliency, the antidote for ACEs, and ways to build resiliency in their clients to increase protective factors and decrease the negative outcomes in those with ACEs.

Location instructions: Once you have reached the training location, you will walk up the steps and go around to the back entrance to the room lined with windows. The speaker will be there earlier to make sure there is someone there in case there are any issues in finding the room. You will see a gym through the windows in the opposite building to the left - it is directly across from the gym.

About the Speaker

Christie Whisenant received her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Community Counseling (now known as Clinical Mental Health Counseling) and a graduate certificate in Substance Abuse Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in December 2011. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHCS), a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist (LCAS), and a Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS). Christie is certified as a Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) Site Interviewer, as well as being certified in the delivery of the Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS). Christie is a certified Thinking for a Change Facilitator, a Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Substance Abuse (CBI-SA) Facilitator, Seeking Safety Facilitator, Strengthening Families Program Group Facilitator, and a Matrix Model Facilitator and Key Supervisor. She is also an instructor for North Carolina Interventions (NCI) Plus, as well as a Tobacco Treatment Specialist, trained through the Duke-UNC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Program.