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Chaddock's professionals are on the cutting edge of research and knowledge in their field. Chaddock frequently offers consultations, lectures, demonstrations, and other presentations throughout the United States and even overseas. Some of these are featured at national conferences while others are contracted by individual school districts, child-care agencies, or other groups. Clinical consultations, lectures, demonstrations and presentations include:
 Click on brochure to download The Knowledge Center at Chaddock - Upcoming Offerings December 8 & 9, 2009 - SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) Training Trainers: Angel Knoverek, Director of Trauma Initiative and Thomas Donovan, Associate Director of Trauma Initiative Quincy Holiday Inn, Quincy, Illinois SPARCS is an evidenced-informed trauma-focused treatment designed for adolescents between the ages of 12 - 19 and is recommended by the National Child Traumatic Stress network (NCTSN) and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The intervention is a cognitively-behaviorally oriented curriculum designed to help traumatized adolescents build on their strengths and enhance resilience. SPARCS is a phase-oriented treatment which aims to equip adolescents with tools for coping with current and future stressors related to painful events from the past. The treatment consists of 16 group sessions lasting 60 minutes each with 8 - 12 members in each group. The broad goals of SPARCS are to help group members master the four C's: 1) Connecting with others (communicate), 2) Coping more effectively in the moment, 3) Cultivating awareness, and 4) Creating meaning. During hte sessions, SPARCS targets six domains of functioning: 1) regulation of emotions and behavior, 2) attention/awareness, 3) self-concept, 4) relationships, 5) physical complaints, and 6) hopefulness and sense of purpose in life. The Learning Collaborative Model will be used for this training, which will include a pre-work phase, Learning Session 1, an action period, Learning Session 2, and then a post-training period. The learning sessions are spaced approximately 4 months apart to allow for implementation of the model. Monthly teleconferences will be scheduled for participants to share successes, challenges and barriers. Registration information to be posted at a later date. For more information or to register; please contact The Knowledge Center at Chaddock, Dennis Sparrow, 217-222-0034 ext. 406.
Contact John Roope at Chaddock's Caregiver Connections, 217.656.4306 for additional presentation topics including:
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