October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, October 13 at 7pm for a program to be held at the Goodnow Library, 21 Concord Rd, Sudbury where Joel M. Ristuccia and Stephanie Howard will be the panelists for a discussion entitled “Continuing the Conversation: Helping Children and Youth Learn to Cope with Common Childhood Challenges.” These challenges typically include experiences of sudden change, loss, failure, shame and rejection which can have traumatic impact on young people. Helping kids learn to cope with these “normal” traumatic experiences can build deep self-confidence and resilience and prevent future extreme pain and harm.
Stephanie Howard, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and director of “Project We Can Talk About It,” the domestic violence team at Children’s Charter, a division of The Key Program, Inc. She has provided training and consultation to DV and DA advocates, daycare and school teachers, DCF social workers, police officers and court personnel. Joel M. Ristuccia, Ed.M., is a certified School Psychologist with over twenty five years’ experience in the public schools. He has consulted on the impact of trauma on student learning to the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative and is co-author of “Helping Traumatized Children Learn.” Additionally he has consulted to the MGH Department of School Psychiatry, and nationally on the impact of trauma on learning and on the role of trauma in student behaviors than can lead to punitive discipline and school failure.
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