Join us at KIT’s National Training Center on Inclusion (NTCI) for a 1.5 day symposium on including and supporting children with disabilities in early childhood and school-age programs. The symposium will focus on communicating effectively with families and helping children learn how to solve their problems in an inclusive setting.

Friday's full day session will feature Dennis Bumgarner, ACSW, LCSW

Topic: Helping Children Solve their Problems

Helping Kids Solve their problems

With involved adults increasingly less available to today’s kids, their opportunities to learn how to manage the emotional and social challenges of childhood and adolescence have significantly diminished. To address this, this training adapts the concepts and skills of cognitive-behavioral and solution-oriented counseling to the day-to-day interactions that youth workers have with children.

Participants will learn fundamental conceptual notions of these problem-solving approaches and the skills that flow from those concepts as they relate to the everyday, real-world challenges faced by young people. Particular attention will be given regarding kids troubled by anger, anxiety, and depression. Armed with this knowledge, youth workers can transform themselves from mere advice-givers to engaged adults who help young people tap into their personal resources for change as well as learning new approaches for problem-solving.