This live, interactive, virtual training with Dr. Julie Clockston and Dr. Virginia Cruz, experts in the field of supported parenting, is designed to build on professionals’ skills when working with families where the parents have an intellectual and/or developmental disability.
Professionals will learn how to modify their skills to make reasonable accommodations in the services they provide, giving parents with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities a fair chance to parent.
This is a 7-hour training is being offered over two half days, September 23 & 24, 2021, 12:30-4pm est BOTH DAYS. You must be able to attend both days.
Your ticket includes the 2-part training and all materials, including a training guide, toolkit with additional resources, live Q&A with the trainers, and access to the trainer and other participants during the live session.
About our trainers:
Dr. Julie Clockston, LCSW, is the founder of Julie Clockston Counseling LLC DBA Therapy Rocks and Co-founder of SOAR Colorado LLC, an agency for individuals diagnosed with developmental/ intellectual disabilities. Dr. Clockston is the mother of four and considers them to be her greatest gifts in life. She has worked with individuals living with cognitive difficulties for 26 years. She is a University professor and lecturer. In addition, she is an off-site field instructor for BSSW and MSW students at Arizona State University (ASU) and Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSUD) where she is also an alumna. Dr. Clockston is Board President of The Association for Successful Parenting (TASP), where she also serves on the education committee. Dr. Virginia Cruz is semi-retired from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has worked in the area of developmental disabilities for over 30 years. At UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, she was a therapist and had the privilege of evaluating and treating children, adolescents, parents and their families with developmental disabilities as a LCSW. She is grateful to these families who were the best teachers about the ways to support individuals with intellectual disabilities. She was Chair of the Department of Social Work at the Metropolitan State University of Denver from 1992 to 2011 and added course content on developmental disabilities to the BSW and MSW programs. She was the Director of the MSW Program from 2009 to 2012 and continues teaching, training and researching the intersectionality of child welfare and developmental disabilities. Ginny holds a PhD in Social Work.