Professional Development
Caring for Chicago’s kids includes taking care of the adults who surround them.
JPA provides responsive, customized professional development opportunities for staff in schools, nonprofits, and other workplaces throughout Chicago and beyond.
Our clinicians lead individuals, or groups of coworkers, through sessions on self-care, trauma, and restorative justice. Our approach is reflective and experiential, calling on educators to pull from their lived experiences and collectively identify new ways to connect with the kids in their care.
Offerings
Anti-Oppressive Reflective Practice in the Classroom
Trauma-Informed Responses in the Classroom: Looking Beyond “Bad” Behavior”
Social and Emotional Wellness in the Classroom: A reflective process for making SEL real
Assessing Students for Risk (Suicide, Homicide, Self-Harm, Psychiatric Emergency)
Classroom Community Development and Support: A social emotional wellness approach to classroom management
Talking About Loss and Grief with Our Students
Harnessing the Power of the Student-Teacher Relationship
Decoding the Diagnosis: Understanding and Supporting Students in the Classroom (Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Oppositional Defiance, etc)
Behavior as Communication
Understanding Bullying
Mindfulness and Emotional
Regulation in the Classroom
Challenging Behaviors
JPA also provides professional development to clinicians.
Our clinician facilitators have years of experience in school systems. All of them have extensive training and expertise in child development and trauma-informed practices.
We provide training and consultation in an individual and/or group setting with a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). During supervision, clinicians will analyze specific cases; practice and apply evidence-based theories and interventions; assess new skills; and hone the ability to build positive relationships with clients.
Supervision time counts towards clinicians’ licensing requirements.
Interested in JPA's Professional Development workshops or Clinical Supervision services?
For more information, contact Erin Vanden Brook, LCSW, Clinical Director of School-Based Services.